We’ve got a fully functioning kitchen. It was almost everything we could want: plenty of storage, big fridge, soon-to-be dream range, dishwasher, big eat in space. What it doesn’t have is a permanent island, and since we want a prep sink, we’re going to get one. What I’m having trouble with is, what do you put in a center island in a kitchen that has almost everything?
I got thinking about this while reading The Kitchn’s 10 Easy, Low-Budget Ways to Improve Any Kitchen, because I like idea #6 for pull out shelves. We don’t really have a pantry, so those look like good alternative food storage sites. But I want to hear your ideas. What do you love most about your kitchen (or your friend’s, or the display model at the design center). What do you wish you had?
The potential real estate: around 6.5′ by 3.5′. It must include a prep sink. We want to know: if you were designing your dream kitchen, what “extras” would you add in a new center island?
We’re starting to get into all those projects we’ve been talking about doing since we moved into the house. in our walk through while considering the house, we commented that while the kitchen was huge, it only had about 3 linear feet of counter space. The Realtor said that she really didn’t understand why the seller had run the cabinets all the way down, but they had run the granite all the way to the wall, so we could always raise the cabinets if we wanted more space. In the six months we lived in the house before closing, we’d purchased a temporary center island from Ikea, and then customized it to fit our decor, but we still didn’t have much counter for big entertaining, and we were really short on counter with electrical outlet access.
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