Islands have to be finished 360. Cabinets in a perimeter run don't have finished sides or backs. Fiishing off the sides and backs costs as much as buying extra cabinets. Islands that size, I'd expect to cost 2-5K in a mid grade line. Depends on door style and the options chosen. Drawers or specialty cabinets like pullouts will be more, plain cabinets with a single top drawer and doors will be less. Sides with integral door panels will be more, veneer applied end panels will be less ( and won't age as well) Same with the back panel, a simpleveneer will cost less than a wainscotting panel. Corbels can be $100 or $350 or $500. There are levels of pricing for every choice. 3K isn't the cheapest that it could be, but it is no where near the most expensive that it could be. If you've got some drawers, and plywood finished ends, and some simple corbels, that would be about right with those upgrades and one of the less costly full overlay doors.

morgne - no. The pennisula was orginally going to be a pass through with a doorway at the end of the wall, but I talked DH into making it a pennisula so it would be more open between the 2 rooms. With the 4.5' pennisula there is approx. 47" between the end of the pennisula and the wall. I did the floor plan in powerpoint as to scale as I could get it with that. I have another copy below that includes the dining room so you can get a better idea of how it flows with the 2 rooms. They are both next to each other at the back of the house. (The floor plan for the house is "T" shaped with the soon-to-be kitchen and dining room as the horiztonal part.) The kitchen measures approx. 13.5' along the sink wall and 11.5' along the back wall 9stove to pantry). The dining room is about the same size. I know how much people here like to design, so I thought about posting the layout to see what everyone thinks. However, I think I'm happy with it. We have good flow to bring groceries in the side door (which will be just out of this picture) to the frig. I can set the table without getting in DH's way at the stove. The pennisula is set to be the main working prep space. We do a lot of baking and cooking as a family, so the kids can sit at the pennisula to help. I always welcome suggestions though, because it helps to ensure I've thought of everything. Currently the kitchen is in the hallway between the kitchen and the dining room. The kitchen in my plans is currenlty just a extra room (use to be the bedroom until DH added a second floor befoer we were married). So, the current kitchen measures 7'7" x 7'11". The 7'11" walls have doorways in them --on one end the doorway takes up most of the wall. We're thrilled to be finally re-doing things.

You can absolutely do a vintage kitchen with quartz. Here's a Sarah Richardson kitchen I love: I have a blue million quartz samples here. If I were to pick one today it would probably be Caesarston Raven. I'm also drawn to Cambria Torquay. I will get quotes on both, but I'm also going to do an extensive search for a honed, brushed, or leathered black granite. I've done a lot of research on all of these and here's what I've found: 1. Granite will probably be less expensive than quartz. 2. Honed Absolute Black granite is the one that gives honed black granite a bad rap. It varies in quality depending on where it comes from and it is often a maintenance nightmare. Other honed or textured granites are not that way. I had a sample of brushed cambrian granite and I couldn't make it show a stain or fingerprint. I've read similar comments from those with honed jet mist, leathered cambrian, leathered impala black, and leathered marron cohiba. 3. You should test black granite by wiping some acetone on it to if it has been dyed to hide defects. 4. Everyone who has quartz loves it. My husband is in love with the leathered cambrian I brought home, but I think I can find something I like better. I am going to 5 or 6 stone yards and if I find a black granite I love, I will get it. It will probably be leathered. Otherwise I'll take another look at the quartz samples and hope my husband is fickle! Whatever you get, make sure you've gotten a sample of it and tested it yourself to see if you like it. Good luck!

To support what Wilson853 said, per the NIH (excerpt): . New coronavirus stable for hours on surfaces SARS-CoV-2 stability similar to original SARS virus. The virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is stable for several hours to days in aerosols and on surfaces, according to a new study from National Institutes of Health, CDC, UCLA and Princeton University scientists in The New England Journal of Medicine. The scientists found that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was detectable in aerosols for up to three hours, up to four hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to two to three days on plastic and stainless steel. The results provide key information about the stability of SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19 disease, and suggests that people may acquire the virus through the air and after touching contaminated objects. The study information was widely shared during the past two weeks after the researchers placed the contents on a preprint server to quickly share their data with colleagues. . From: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/new-coronavirus-stable-hours-surfaces