Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Beautiful, Functional Kitchen Islands

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The kitchen island. It is one of the most popular design features among consumers today. Many of today's kitchen islands have unique design styles of their own. In this traditional kitchen above, the island counter differs from the perimeter counters. Love that!


Most kitchen islands include storage, sinks {prep or main}, appliances and/or seating areas. This beautiful white kitchen features a small, but highly functional island that includes  storage, a main sink and stool seating.The industrial pendant lights provide task lighting and add some jewelry to the space.


Kitchen islands can have the same design as the main counter and cabinets or it can have a look all its own. Above, an old farm dining table makes an ideal kitchen island and adds character to this kitchen - love that it has wheels and can be moved as needed! The lantern pendant light hung above helps define the space nicely.

All of the kitchen images above are from an Ideabook created on Houzz featuring beautiful kitchen islands - go here to see it. And for more kitchen island design trends go here. Do you have a kitchen island?