Five questions about choosing an island for the kitchen

Kitchens with an island are often found on the pages of design magazines and at professional exhibitions. They always attract attention. In real life, in particular, in apartments in United granite King of Prussia, a kitchen with an island is not so common. The main reason is that such a purchase requires a large space, and in modern apartments this is a rare occurrence. Moreover, due to the lack of sufficient experience, not every furniture showroom has designers offering such a solution to customers.

How, then, should you approach ordering a kitchen with an island? We propose to begin with correctly formulating the task for the designer and for this to answer himself five questions.

Question 1. Decide why you need an island in the kitchen?

An island usually serves one of four functions:

• Delimits the kitchen space and allows you to separate the cooking area from the food intake area;
• Serves as an additional work surface: if you love to cook, then the work place will never be superfluous, especially if you often have to cook several dishes at the same time;
• Sometimes the island, especially the large one, is used for eating;
• And in some cases, an island in the kitchen can even serve as a workplace.

Together with your designer, think about whether it is rational to use the island to separate zones, or are there other ways? And most importantly, what exactly are you planning to do on the kitchen island?

Depending on the main function of the island, you need to make a decision about its size, height and other characteristics.

Question 2. What utensils and household appliances will be needed?

If you plan to use the island for cooking, it will be convenient for you to keep your kitchen utensils close at hand. Storage methods for kitchen utensils also need to be considered before designing a kitchen island. For example, if you want to hang wine glasses over the island, then you need to provide appropriate holders.

In the case when the kitchen island will be used as a work surface, you need to pay attention to the following points:

• If you are going to build a stove into an island, then you must definitely think about placing a hood above it;
• If a sink is built into the island, then prepare communications for water supply and drainage;
• Sockets and lighting should be located so that it is convenient to use the equipment on the island.

Think about whether you will cook on the island? What household appliances will be built into the island or will they stand on it? How many outlets are there for convenient operation?

Question 3: How much space do you need for the island?

When planning the size of the island and its location in the kitchen, you need to remember about the  working triangle – the basis of comfortable work in the kitchen . A working triangle in a kitchen with an island should be compact. Then, while cooking, you don’t have to run too much around the kitchen.

Kitchen island – the structure is quite large, so you can store kitchen utensils and food under it. Think in advance what you might need under the island. So you can make the optimal size lockers in it.

The shape of a kitchen island can be rectangular, oval, round and curved. Different shapes of the island give different storage possibilities.

Question 4: How high should the island be?

And the height of the island also depends on the purposes for which you want to use it. For example, you can make a two-tiered island with different heights for the cooking side and the eating side.

The issue of height is very individual. This is one of the advantages of custom-made kitchens – you can make an island of any height depending on the height of family members.

The most common islands are of the following dimensions:

• Length – from 120 cm;
• Width – from 60 to 150 cm;
• Height – from 85 to 90 cm.

Another important point is chairs. If the entire island or parts of it will be used for eating, the island must be made so high that it is comfortable to stand and sit next to it. It will be difficult to create coziness in the kitchen, at the table of which it is uncomfortable to sit, right?

Question 5: How will the island fit into the overall design of the kitchen?

The island in the kitchen automatically attracts attention. This fact can be played in two ways:

1. Decorate the island harmoniously in the same colors with the kitchen so that it does not stand out so much.
2. On the contrary, highlight the island with other materials or colors, make it the “heart” of the kitchen.

As you can see, from the point of view of design, kitchens with an island look very stylish and original. In terms of convenience and practicality, the island can also be a very profitable solution. It is enough to make some efforts during the design – on the part of the customer to define the task, and on the part of the designer – to come up with a competent solution based on their knowledge and experience.

The main natural limitation in this case is the size of the kitchen. A similar function for a smaller kitchen can be performed by a kitchen with a bar counter, which we already wrote about earlier.

 

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