Basic Guide To Kitchen Islands

Ultimate small space solution for the dining rooms and kitchen, multifunctional piece of furniture and often a focal point of the interior. Yes, it’s about the kitchen islands! They range from most simplistic to most functional and vary in prices and design. Today we are talking about general differences between main types of kitchen islands. Follow us to be in the course of news every week.

The major dividing point is between portable and fixed island. Though the last of two becomes an integral part of the kitchen, the portable has advantage in playing many roles in your house – as a table, cooking surface, bar cart and home bar itself. To name just a few… So, let us dive deeper in details.

Rolling island is mostly considered as a portable prep area to be kept to the side of the kitchen. It tends to roll, but from the other side it is easy to move in and out. In this way, they serve as the bar carts, serving carts or kitchen carts.

The ones without the wheels on the bottom are non-portable. They appeared emulating the real fixed kitchen island. Designed in the ideal height for prepping meal (usually, at 38”), they make cooking easier and more pleasant.

Kitchen island table refers to the 4-legged piece with the longer table leaf than the body of the island itself. So, it becomes at once an island for cooking and an island for eating. That is exactly the ideal solution for squeezed living spaces, as in this case it serves as a counter height table set and as a prep surface, sometimes as a home bar etc.

Shelves and drawers of any kitchen island will store all the stuff and help you save the space. Moreover, many designs provide racks for glassware, sections or boxes for wine bottles and place to hang the towels. Whatever you need to be kept in it, and whatever your choice in the style and kind – you will find the perfect one kitchen island for your place with the FurniturePick.