Can a kitchen island be TOO big???
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Comments (17)cooki1268: It's from AYA kitchens 2009 winter catalog/magazine. Here's the link, but it's a huge pdf. I think it's page 12. We're not going with their cabinets, but I did love that picture (gotta find those stools!) www.ayakitchens.com/media/.../AyA_Inspired%20Design2_sm.pdf Thanks to all the other smart and objective advice givers! I'll show my current floor plan, which will help you all see where the doors lead to: We added the wall and opened up the basement stairs to close off the family room from the front door. We also changed the sliding glass door into a picture window and added the side garden door. We face west so we get a ton of light from the back windows and garden door. There's also a silly 40" raised breakfast bar behind the D/W. To answer some of florantha's questions: you can see my current kitchen layout does curve into a "U." I was trying to limit that for 2 reasons: not going to invest in a CD fridge and hate to see the fridge sticking out into the kitchen. As well, also dislike that dead corner between the fridge and stove. One cook household, and we do eat at home most of the time. Two kids that like to help with baking. I was trying not to move walls, windows, sink, etc., simply to put my money into cabs and counters. Need seating for 4 regularly, but have a large dining room table for bigger dinners....See MoreIslands: How big is too big?
Comments (9)Our island in the house we moved from last year was 6x6.5'. Yes it was massive, maybe a little too big. But I kind of liked it. The "cooking" wall had a pro cooktop w/ double convection ovens to the left and base cab and a counter top cab on the right. Facing the cooktop was the island: d/w, big sink, tray cabinet. On the right side were straw produce drawers, trash pull-outs, 50-lb icemaker. Next side (facing the family rm) was an open display/cookbook shelves w/dead panels on each side. The fourth side, facing the breakfast room, were a base cab, microwave opening w/drawer below for dog sweaters, dead panel which was the side of the dishwasher. I hope that's clear. It did have some dead space which I could clean by stretching! I sometimes debated if I would do it that way again, but I did get alot of stuff/storage there....See MoreIsland pendants - better too big or too small?
Comments (1)Unfortunately, the width is not the issue. The height of the 12" fixture is 28.5" and that doesn't allow any room for the stem and canopy before you reach the 96" ceiling. 36"+ 30"+ 28.5" = 94.5"...See MoreIs my kitchen island way too big?
Comments (14)Julie: Step back and look at the big picture please. When you're in business, you take some unfair beatings on some jobs; it's inevitable. They are sometimes hard to take, but say you did a million dollars in sales and ate $10,000.00 worth of work. Swallowing 4 $2,500.00 pills isn't easy, but combined they're only 1% of your sales. If you can keep your losses to 1%, you're into black ink. Same thing here. Look over your whole project. How much turned out well versus how much not so well? What is your percentage please?...See MoreRelated Professionals
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