Island, work table or table?
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rosie
11 years agospringroz
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Comments (31)Thanks budge1!! I just got off the phone with tabletops.com. Holy cow do they have good customer service! I emailed my problem, and in no time received a response from the owner, and he says he's received this exact same question several times and is going to work on putting something up on his website or offering something to deal with the issue. Says he's gonna get his engineers on it :) Nice. Anyhow, he says he's done something similar in his own house, and notched out the table legs (he used 4 legs, 2 butting up against the cabinets and the 2 end ones) and ran a small i-beam down the length on each side which rests in the notches. Then he said he used epoxy to level out the top edge that the soapstone rests on (since the i-beam's are never totally straight) and voila! Apparently it's been holding up for years. I might see about some cross beams still, and doing it 'ladder style' but it's nice to know someone else's experiences (and the guy's a table maker, so that gives me more warm and fuzzies.) Thank you so much for the tip!...See MoreFavorite affordable kitchen work table/freestanding island?
Comments (8)Thanks! @honeychurch, yours is great---I've been watching Craigslist for islands and tables, but hadn't thought of searching for work benches, so I'll give that a try. And @bmore, that is pretty much exactly what we want! Maybe it's worth trying to find someone local who'd be willing to build it and see how much it would run us...the main challenge there is that we're in a pricey labor market, so even a small woodworking job tends to get expensive fast, and I think it's beyond our DIY skills/equipment. *sigh* Possibly if we got someone to cut the wood, though, we could manage the rest of it? (One upside is that, since our wood counter is just IKEA butcher block, we could get another piece of the same wood to use for the top so that it matched, too...hmm!)...See MoreKitchen Table/Work Table/ Island on Casters?
Comments (6)I just changed my office over so everything is on wheels. So this has been my experience so far. It's great for cleaning and rearranging. The casters need to really lock down and you might think about using 4 with locks. My desk has two locking and two plain - its just too easy to push it around in spite of the locks. For example, I can bring the whole desk towards myself when I want to open up the keyboard shelf - even with the locks set. A different kind of caster on the rolling around shelves does the same thing - not quite as easily but still wouldn't put it in a kitchen. Maybe there are better casters in the world and someone would have a recommended brand. Alternately, if you're thinking of something that has some size to it, perhaps get or build a section to handle the actual work surface and stools but not move. Then "dock" something like the flyetta cart below on one end....See MoreDo I center the table and sacrifice the space between table and island
Comments (16)Hi everyone. There is no seating at the island. The issue really is that the doors make the placement of the light fixture seem more off center than it really is. Hard to show that in my photos bc I can’t get the whole room in one picture. If there were no doors there, I don’t think people would notice. I put the table centered under current placement of light fixture and put chairs around it. On the left it’s about 40-41 inches away from the island and it seems a little tight. I guess I also have to center the table in front of the doors, and then see how close it is to the island. If it’s too close I may have to change to high hats or a high fixture as someone suggested. I have 3 teenagers so my kitchen is always busy. I edited my post here. **its not so much the space for the chairs, its the ability to walk behind the chairs on the island side of the table***...See Morelavender_lass
11 years agobellsmom
11 years agoWhen I remodeled the kitchen, four pieces had to be included. Functionality and design were secondary to their personal meaning to me. I know exactly what you mean. You may not have the exact items, but you can recreate the ambiance you remember.
In this pic, the corner cabinet, lamp, table, and chairs were all in my parents' kitchen. They came to me, and it makes me smile to have them there in a corner of the kitchen. Not what I would have picked if I were designing from scratch, but not negotiable, either. They belonged IN.
I hope you can find a table that reinforces the ''Ratatouille'' atmosphere you remember!
Sandra
springroz
11 years agomermanmike
11 years agoI am going to have a big table instead of an island. I'd always thought I would get an island when I had a kitchen I could fit one in, but for reasons of simplicity and warmth I am going with the table. If I really want the extra work space, I figure that I could do an island later and use a smaller kitchen table. I plan to have chairs on 3 sides and a big bench on the 4th side so I could push it in to easily use it as a work table if I want to. Here are a couple of pictures from my bulging collection of inspiration. And by the way, what is the source of this amazing kitchen you are posting? I'd love to see more pics of it if they are available.
Bunny
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ILoveRed
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11 years agozeebee
11 years agoWhat works best in my space: a regular dining table. I came to planning totally set on having an island, and kept trying to fit one in, but it was getting narrower and shorter due to other room constraints until it became too stumpy with not enough workspace/practicality gains to compensate. The current plan, which just makes the space feel better to me, has kitchen on three sides of the room and dining table in the center.
What works best for my personality: probably island, because I wanted that barrier between me and other kitchen occupants (I'm one of those cooks who really, truly, sincerely does not welcome help in the kitchen). Current plan will at least keep non-cooks to one side of the table, near the alcohol/coffee area and furthest from my prepping and cooking zones and me, flashing my chef's knife in what I hope is a menacing way.
I'll make the kitchen mine with (1) a great range and (2) some fun use of color. Love this Houzz pic - ignore the layout but look at the great mix of color and sense of fun (*drooling* over long La Cornue wall). We own an old house with very traditional bones that we've.....enlivened with ultra-modern lighting fixtures, weird art and some wacky, way off wall colors. That mix of traditional backbone and more lively, frivolous accessories is what I hope will make the kitchen a happy place for me.
Color!
[Eclectic Kitchen design[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/eclectic-kitchen-ideas-phbr1-bp~t_709~s_2104) by Dc Metro General Contractor Georgetown Development
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