Contemporary Kitchen Island Design

My Kitchen

We are “scrubbing” the existing kitchen, and really starting from scratch, so really anything goes!!



Coffee station – perhaps a hidden coffee station?

Built in looking china cabinet –

Small “desk” area for husband to put his computer for morning email work – but not with his back to the living room

There are two of us living here, but we often have 8-10 for a meal……and would love to be able to seat everyone IN the dining area at an expanding table of some sort? But it’s a small area, so a HUGE table won’t work for the normal day to day operations of our kitchen

We will be removing the “furr down” above the kitchen cabinets to allow for larger/taller cabinets

My husband does NOT want cabinets that are “painted” but rather he prefers “stained”

An easy “traffic flow” – right now between the fridge and the “bar/island” is tight! And the “desk” area sticks out into the walkway

Mail, phone chargers, Kleenex box, etc. “cluttery”???

We do use the toaster a lot, so it needs to stay out – we have a kitchenaid mixer I’d like to have room for (right now it’s hidden away)

We do have two dogs, one big (55 lbs.) and one small (about 15 lbs)

The appliances are new (2 years old) so planning on keeping them unless design makes it impossible to do so

My husband HATES the oven being so low to the ground!!