Cooking up a storm

Follow the lead of Helene Omeros, who has just bought an apartment in the Monaco building in Main Beach, and customise your kitchen like a pro.

An apartment in the Monaco in Main Beach is set to have the Gold Coast's most impressive new kitchen now that Helene Omeros and her husband Charles Millard have bought in the building.

Ms Omeros said being able to customise and design the kitchen was a unique opportunity too good to pass up. "We spend a lot of time in the kitchen eating together so having the ideal kitchen is so important to us."

Mr Millard said it was important that their kitchen be practical, not only for cooking but entertaining. "The kitchen is always the focal point for the first hour after guests arrive. That's why we want to be interacting with our guests rather than having our backs to them while we use the cooktop and oven."

Mr Millard said key features of their new kitchen would be gas cooktops, two fridges and two under-sized ovens as well as a generous butler's pantry.

The Monaco is a 24-level building with a collection of full-floor and half-floor sky residences at 2-4 Macarthur Parade, with prices for the three-bedroom, three-bathroom unit starting at $4.5 million.