Moodyeric Kitchen

When choosing an island design for your kitchen, one of the most effective steps is to determine the function of the island. Will you use it strictly as a place to eat and chat? Will you use it for a microwave, refrigerator, or sink? There's no "right" or "wrong" function of your kitchen island. Instead, it's important to determine how it can enhance your time in the kitchen.While food preparation is part of any kitchen, it's not the most thrilling sight for others to see. Fortunately, you can create levels of preparation areas underneath the island's surface. This allows you to do whatever slicing, mixing, and other activities you need to do-without everyone seeing the mess.That should be enough room between your island and kitchen cabinets. Specifically, three to four feet is usually adequate. If you're in doubt, provide more space, so that your family will be comfortable around the kitchen island table. In addition, when you put in your island, make sure you measure so that you sure you have enough clearance. This will help prevent mistakes or accidents because there are things that are too close to the kitchen island.

Kitchen Island Designs

An old friend of mine moved into a beautiful, late 19th century, Victorian style home a little more than 12 months ago. At a recent party she held at the home many of the guests commented about the quaint old fashioned style of the kitchen and how cozy and friendly it seemed. At this point my friend declared that she and her four children all absolutely hated the kitchen area and would love to renovate and modernize it but were utterly daunted by the task and so had not attempted it.Her main fear was the perceived high cost of renovating an old home as she had heard many home improvement horror stories - People spending tens of thousands of dollars on what started out to be quite modest renovations, only to find a number of non-budgeted repairs and maintenance were also required, therefore significantly blowing out the estimated costs. My friend did not relish the idea of finding herself in a similar predicament so the idea of undertaking restoration and renovation work had been shelved. One of the guests at the party was a builder and another a professional interior decorator and they both explained that while restoration work (restoring the building to 'as new' condition similar to when the building was originally constructed) was quite extensive and time consuming, however, a renovation (modernization) project was relatively cheap.

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