Please post pictures of kitchens w/ 2 islands!! Is it weird to
lincolnduncan
15 years ago
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Please Post Your Photos - White Kitchens w/ Tile Floors
Comments (7)We went with a dark charcoal gray and light cream tile checkerboard pattern -- natural stone look but two contrasting colors arranged in a checkerboard pattern set on the diagonal. It's not installed yet, so I don't have pics, but I think it's going to look nice. We had the same dilemma with white cabs, marble counters and not doing a wood floor. Good luck....See MorePlease post pictures of your narrow island and work aisles
Comments (29)I want to caution all of those who think narrow aisles are OK for a multi-cook kitchen. If you plan your kitchen very, very, very carefully you can probably pull it off. However, if you're not very careful you will end up with a kitchen like Rookie_2010's MIL's kitchen or my SIL's kitchen...very difficult for more than one person to work in...and/or your narrow island becoming a "barrier island" (both of which my SIL has b/c she just had to have an island in a kitchen that couldn't support it...she has grown to hate it over time...especially as her children have grown). If you will have more than one person working in your kitchen at a time on a semi-regular basis, regardless of what they are doing, think long and hard b/f you deliberately plan for a narrow aisle and/or cram in a narrow island... Our kitchen is 10'6" wide and while I have a "U" shape, the fact that the legs are rather short and the base wide, prevents people from becoming trapped in it. I had a choice of an island or what I have now, and I am very, very glad I was talked out of an island by the wise folks here! If you do decide to plan for narrow aisles, etc., at least go in w/your eyes open and realize that you will have a less-than-optimum space and that you will most likely have to adjust your kitchen use to accommodate those aisles (or island)....See MorePlease show me a picture of your kitchen island
Comments (5)Our island is partially centred to our cooktop area. It's not exactly centred as we allowed more clearance to the right of the island as we have sliding doors that go into our backyard and ancitipated people traffic there. We personally needed that symmetry as the upper cabs on either side of the range hood were the same, and because we have two pendant lights hanging over the island. Photo with dirty floors but upper cabs are in. Photo with no upper cabs because we had to shorten the range hood cover, but this shows the pendant lights and finished flooring. However, before you start obsessing about your island placement as I have been reading your other post, have you considered adding to the right of your island? You have quite a bit of clearance there and could easily accomodate a "mini island" with a different countertop material, such as a nice wood butcher block top. You could even make it a different height so as to make it look intentional. DH actually suggested this when he looked at your beautiful kitchen photo. Something like this, TERRIBLE mockup but you get the idea:...See MorePlease post pics of your wood cabinets w/ diff color wood island
Comments (18)Thanks again to everyone for responding. We had not considered a white island, but that is something to thinks about. Wow, kalapointer, thanks for posting the pics of your cabinetry. The colors are very close to what we were thinking of. We're beginning to back off the dark cherry, though, because of worries about its darkening further -- with only one window (and a large skylight), our kitchen might not be as bright as yours. We're not sure. Cabinet buy says cherry darkens, but maple yellows ... editionk, you're right, kpasso's kitchen looks very similar to ours, it's about the same size, and it's laid out almost exactly the same with a similar size island! It's very helpful to see those pics. And in answer to your questions: (1) Do you have a pantry / larger food storage somewhere that I don't see in your layouts? Yep -- in the second picture you can see a door beyond the fridge. That's the door to the utility/laundry room. The pantry is to your left as you go through the door :-) (2) Have you considered changing the door/drawer on the left of the stove to a bank of drawers? Ditto on the one on the left of the sink. Hadn't thought about that. I think the only three-drawer stacks now are next to the dishwasher (for utensils) and across from the sink on the island. (3) You mentioned dark areas/shadowy areas in your house. A dark red cherry finish in a kitchen with just one window might feel too dark. A few glass uppers can lighten the look a lot along with the right paint and backsplash. What are you thinking so far for those elements? We are planning glass uppers on all the upper cabinets around the sink (two to the right, one to the left) and there are 1-foot cabinets on the wall across from the sink that don't show up in these renderings but that also have glass uppers. We were going to do glass uppers around the range as well, but decided that was too much. (4) Will you have a microwave? I think I see a TV in the layout, but no micro (unless it's in the island). Yes. The microwave will sit on the counter in the corner under the TV. My husband doesn't think it's safe to lift possibly heavy hot dishes from a raised area, and I see his point. (5) I expected your door style would be Craftsman considering the renderings and your description, but the Merillat door style is quite traditional. The cherry Paprika color is nice, is that what you're considering? I think that is the name of the color. It does seem to be pretty dark when you look on their website. I am not sure what a Craftsman door style is, but the cabinet design guy has mentioned Shaker style a few times. It's a bit too plain for our tastes, though. We are also considering Kraftmaid cabinets. The frameless drawers are appealing because they have several inches more width for the same cabinet size. But the design we like would be about 35% more (!) than the Merillat Classic because not only is Kraftmaid more to start with, the design is much fancier, including curved wood on the face of the cabinet door. I can't remember the style name and it doesn't look easy to find on the Kraftmaid website. I wonder if those fancy doors would overwhelm our smallish kitchen anyway....See Morealku05
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15 years agoHere's mine at the present time
Because the kitchen is fairly large,I wanted to have access to the perimeter cabinets, hence, the two islands. the granite was just installed and I am SOOOO eager to start cooking there, but there's still more to do--plumbing, some more electrical work, finishing the hardwood floors, but I am beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
rhome410
15 years ago
Christine Decker
15 years agoI LOVE having two Islands! I use one for prep and everyday kitchen stuff and the other we use for eating/dining/entertaining. I had only one in my old home and I don't know how I survived!
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