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I thought you meant what the table top or counter top was made out of!! LOL My table top is copper and I don't have anything on it since I just like the copper!

Hi Baileyandbella,
I have a long basket on the island filled with some faux botanical things. I change the botanicals per season. It takes up a lot of space but we're a family of three so I don't think it will bother me unless I'm entertaining. My kitchen table hasn't made it in from the garage yet but when it does, I have a white stoneware pitcher to go on top and some hydrangeas in the yard that are going to fill it.
Here's the island basket:
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I found one with better lighting...
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I probably will have a napkin holder and salt & pepper set for my kitchen table (as is usual for us). If I get fancy, it will be on a lazy susan. I will probably also put our bowl of fruit on it instead of the dining room table (the current spot because we have no kitchen table in our current setup).

My island will be a working island with no display space. It will have a top ledge, but I am worried things may get knocked off. I'll have to see about that.

On my kitchen table, I have a salt and pepper, my grandmother's glass spoonholder for teaspoons, a basket with napkins, a cream and sugar set and some toothpicks - usually on a seasonal placemat or colorful cloth napkin. Sometimes I'll add a small vase of fresh flowers from my garden.

Nothing on the island, or sometimes a bronze icebucket that looks like an incense burner. Nothing on the table, except flowers sometimes.

I like that long basket

Keep the ideas coming....thanks!

My breakfast area table has either a white fruitbowl or a white ironstone pitcher with flowers. The island has a white pottery medium urn with faux artillery fern centered in front of our sink in the island. The island is large so on each end I keep an antique wood spoon holder box that catches mail and an old wooden mortar and pestle on the other end. The greenery adds life and the wood constrasts all that stone granite. Then some days it all goes away and I like it empty. Depends!

I have a vintage copper pot that I bought in an antique shop that needs to be relined in order to use it for cooking. I'm thinking, once the kitchen is done, I'll use it as a planter for herbs and keep it on top of the island. I have a skylight there, so it will be an ideal place to keep the herbs. Right now, I don't have an island, or a kitchen for that matter. Soon, I hope...

Here are some pictures of what our counters look like (when they're cleaned off!)

Here's what our peninsula sometimes looks like!

I'm not a big fan of stuff on the table, so we don't have anything on it when it's not in use. [It's probably a relic of when our table was too narrow for anything but our table settings and small serving bowls. Our old table was 36" wide...too narrow! (Plus, as our children grew up, they started kicking each other under the table or even just "touched" each others feet or legs...*sigh*) Our DR table, which we now eat all meals at, is 42" wide....much better!]

You surely don't want a pic of my table. Right now, it features bills, pocket change, keys, two library books, and a sock (clean) that I rescued from one of the dogs. When it's presentable, the table just has a seasonal tablecloth on it.

My kitchen is under construction so i have nothing to show you, but...I tend to be "horizontially impared" (everything flat tends to collect clutter). I am hoping to turn over a new leaf when my kitchen is completed.

OK, you asked. In addition to a wire plate holder crafted by my BIL, a cutting board, and a wooden bowl with a few late-season veggies, TODAY there is a can of something called Bondo-Hair, left by my DH.

It sounds really nasty, but evidently is something to use on cars. And, of course, the kitchen island is the logical place to keep it. ;)

Here is a link that might be useful:

My island is the first piece of furnishing that I encounter when coming into the house from the garage.

Sooo, I drop mail, keys, dog leash, paperwork, lunch bag, etc. there unfortunately! Other items that "live" on the 2-level island are dog treat containers, fruit bowl, veggie bowl, whey protein container on the bottom level and usually nothing on the top (bar) level.

When not full of junk (i.e. mail being sorted, calendar I have not found a place to hang, my kids leftover drinks and other breakfast detritus, registration forms for new appliances, tile samples, unfinished homework, toys) it will have either flowers or a green pottery bowl with fruit or veggies that aren't refrigerated (lately tomatoes.) If the flowers are nice enough (or large) they sit on the dining room table. I go for chaos, function or complete beauty.

Or you might find one or both of our two new kittens running across the island (at 9 weeks they run across every surface in the house.) Yes, I could not help myself. It seems that many GW posts include adorable pet photos, particularly cats so I thought I would chip in :) The funny part is the kittens are so fast I have taken at least 20 photos since we adopted them and this was the first one that wasn't a blur. Any yes I wiped the island down after this stunt.

Sparklekitty...so cute! I want two of those for my new island.