WHEN DOES A KITCHEN ISLAND MAKE SENSE?
In open living kitchens are often and gladly seen: The Kitchen Island. Kitchen islands offer additional storage and working space, can promote communication and make spending time in the kitchen even more pleasant.
If you basically hardly ever cook in your kitchen and rarely spend time there, you may decide on a kitchen island only for visual reasons.
Three good reasons to include the kitchen island at least for visual reasons:
- two areas (cooking & living) are structured and brought together. This facilitates communication with guests, at the same time the demarcation to the actual kitchen behind is clear.
- kitchen islands are in vogue. Almost all new kitchens are planned with kitchen islands – as far as the required space is available.
- kitchen islands create additional storage space. This allows the entire kitchen unit to be tidy and shine with the emptiest possible surfaces.
If, on the other hand, you cook frequently and enthusiastically, you’ll have a lot more questions:
- do I need additional storage space in the kitchen?
- do I want to be able to talk to family or friends while cooking without turning my back on them?
- do I want to do more elaborate cooking preparations perhaps facing the living room (and the TV there)?
- do I often cook with more than one person at a time, so we need more space for chopping, cleaning vegetables, or arranging?
- do I want to make the most efficient use of the working triangle of sink, stove and refrigerator?
If the answer to most of these questions is a resounding “yes,” then an island solution should really make sense!
Advantages of the kitchen island
The benefits of kitchen islands are especially clear for cooking enthusiasts and larger families:
– Easier division of labor for larger cooking groups or families preparing meals together.
– Open access to the adjacent living and dining room for ongoing conversations with guests or family.
– Functions as a room divider in open-concept eat-in kitchens.
– Often deeper, uninterrupted countertops than kitchenettes.
– Additional storage space and more shelves for kitchen utensils and decorations.
– Connecting use with a bar, counter or table for efficient use of space, independent of cooking.
In modern, spacious apartments or houses, kitchen islands are a popular and practical stylistic device to further integrate the kitchen into the living area. After all, we all spend a lot of time either preparing food or cleaning up afterwards.
Bonus benefit: more space for modern kitchen appliances.
You can, of course, plan the kitchen island completely “bare”, as a pure work surface. However, it becomes more exciting if the island kitchen is used for additional kitchen appliances, which are particularly suitable for communicative and sociable cooking.
In addition to the purely practical sink, these would be, for example:
– Grill grate
– Teppan Yaki (stainless steel plate)
– hot stone
– integrated deep fryer
– kitchen appliances that can be retracted/extended into the surface
There are (almost) no limits to the imagination here. Trough steam vents precisely extract food odors just like a regular kitchen counter. Without conspicuous steam extractors above the kitchen island.
No appliances, but both beautiful and practical are, for example, integrated ice cube trays or small herb gardens. The latter offer not only refreshing greenery in the modern kitchen, but also the basis for tasty dishes.
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