One Laravel platform for a full kitchen-appliance brand

Kutchina is a home-and-kitchen appliances brand with two decades in the market and a catalogue that spans far more than a single product line — chimneys, hobs and cooktops, built-in dishwashers and ovens, water purifiers, a long tail of small appliances, and modular kitchens and wardrobes. The brief was not "build a shop"; it was to make one website carry a brand catalogue, a selling storefront, a lead engine and an after-sales service area, all at the same time.

Why an off-the-shelf theme was the wrong tool

• The catalogue is heterogeneous. A chimney with technology variants, a modular kitchen configured by the customer, and a boxed toaster do not share a product model. A generic template squeezes all three into the same card and loses the details that sell premium products.
• People buy in more than one way. Some products go straight to a cart and checkout. Others — a modular kitchen or wardrobe — start as a design exploration and a budget estimate, then become a showroom visit. The site must handle both paths without forcing everything into "add to cart".
• Service is part of the product. Annual maintenance contracts, authorised service centres and a showroom locator are core to an appliance brand, not an extra added onto a shop.

The real problem was integration: a brand catalogue, e-commerce, a "design-your-own" configurator, an estimate calculator, a store locator and a content/blog engine all needed to sit behind one login and one admin, rather than as a patchwork of separate tools.

The outcome is a single branded platform that behaves like several products at once, without the brand team having to operate several products.

What the platform does

• A full appliance catalogue and storefront covering the brand's product families, with a path for each product that fits how it sells.
• Lead generation built into the browsing experience — the design tool and estimate calculator turn interest into clear enquiries rather than losing serious visitors at a price wall.
• Service and discovery in the same place — showroom locator, after-sales/AMC information, and a content library of buying guides, all managed from one back office.

Why the single-application decision matters

Because catalogue, commerce, leads and content share one model, the brand team edits a product once and sees it reflected everywhere it appears — storefront, category page, and any campaign surface — instead of matching copies across separate tools. That is the quiet win of building this on one Laravel application rather than putting it together from a shop theme and a pile of plugins.

The site is positioned to keep absorbing new product lines and service offerings as the brand grows, because adding a category is a data task, not a rebuild. For a brand that markets itself as a one-stop kitchen solution, the website finally works the same way the business is meant to.