HOW TO PLAN THE PERFECT KITCHEN ISLAND

In this video, I talk through 9 questions and considerations to think about when designing a kitchen island. By thinking about and answering each question your perfect kitchen island will practically design itself!
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[@andrewwatson5360]

Absolutely brilliant presentation. Such valuable information and advice cleary explained so everyone can understand and as a consquence taking the confusion and mystery out of good kitchen planning and design. As a cabinetmaker/kitchen designer/sales and then a builder who has just completed his probably last ultimate kitchen renovation for his excellent cook/wife in his 76th year I cannot praise your talents enough. So many so called kitchen designers fall into the trap of prioritising trends and style as well as their often misguided design prejudice over practicalities and feasible options often due to ignorance of building practices and limitations which leads to wasted time, expense and disappointment for clients. You provide very valuable advice freely given. Every person thinking of kitchen design in any context needs to watch this.

[@carrieh465]

I do appreciate that you clearly include all the minimum measurements in your videos. Thank you!

[@angixm]

Yes! Please do a video about the pros and cons with the hobs and the venting. Thank you! 🥰

[@kitchinsider]

Thanks! I'll add it to the list. In the meantime, I wrote a post about them here: kitchinsider.com/kitchen-island-cooker-hoods/

[@namakulaanntheresa2678]

Thank you do much.This was so resourceful.

[@Veronica-vt9tp]

You are the BEST. Love your videos.

[@ElenkaT1957]

another excellent video thank you

[@marciafirst2271]

Great ideas-I am remodeling 2 kitchens in the near future, so this video helped me confirm that my kitchen will fit an island. Great content!

[@83aceman]

Excellent thanks.

[@jingli1765]

Best video on the topic!

[@kitchinsider]

Thanks so much! 😁

[@ElenkaT1957]

thank you brilliant information

[@kitchinsider]

My pleasure! Glad it was helpful!

[@jobond3317]

Oh yes video on cooker hood, please

[@dimitriskyriakou322]

I would really like to hear your pros and cons about different extractors for the island’s hob! Nice vids

[@kitchinsider]

Thanks Dimitris! I made a video about the island extractors you can check out here -> kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIO5hYuHfLiGrqc

[@Rose-re9tn]

This is excellent content!

[@kitchinsider]

Thanks so much Rose! 😁

[@ohjolt2]

You need the wood to over lap the sink so there is no where for the water to pool. Then you can hide a bead of silicone under there. Then waterlox or rubio the wood. You can't just use oil by the sink. Use a darker wood to show less stains and keep a piece of sand paper on the drawer. Also if you do want to oil use the one with the bees wax blend. Treat every day for a week or so then a few times a week then every week for a while then every month. After a year you can go to less frequent treatment. My butcher block looked amazing after 5 years.

[@barbsdee3831]

Fab video, thank you. I’m having hob on my island with an integrated vent 👍🏼

[@kitchinsider]

Thanks Barb! 😊 Great choice, I'm a fan of venting hobs!

[@rupindergrewal3752]

I just found out about you today and binged watched almost all of your videos.

[@kitchinsider]

Amazing! Hope you're enjoying them. I better get busy making some more for you! 😊

[@bluesraincancun9217]

Awesome content!

[@kitchinsider]

Thanks so much!

[@nursemaria1172]

Please talk about the pros n cons of hobs and venting

[@jessicaj.7267]

thank you! had to convert units on the fly but it was worth it for good practice to metric. I do wonder about the overhang. I know in the US we generally think bigger is better, however is 12" really enough to fully pull a chair under a 26" high counter. We can make 15" work, but if less is adequate I would like to know.

[@sunnynotblind4158]

Great info. I think number of people typically working together in the kitchen should be factored into walkway space as well. 2 people regularly cooking together definitely calls for wider walkway if possible.

[@kitchinsider]

Thanks! Absolutely, if you've got that bit of extra space for the walkways, go for it! 👍

[@MTKDofficial]

Hey Michael! Great video! Well done. It's great to find another kitchen designer in the space! If you are ever up for a collaboration, let me know. Keep up the great videos!

[@kitchinsider]

Thanks Mark! Really appreciate that. Definitely up for a collaboration. I think I need a bit more practice in front of the camera first though :)

[@MTKDofficial]

@@kitchinsider Cool! I'll reach out though email. I think your camera presence is great! No worries there. I'm still new at this, I'm not even sure how to do a colab. haha

[@JonasTV27]

Im a fan of stove island not a sink island. And i wanted to have a backsplash on it and a hood do you think is't a good idea or any suggestions? I saw one like the japanese style kitchen design. I hope you could look over and make a video of other kitchen foreign design

[@chrismclean980]

My wife just wishes he was here in NZ !

[@kimdoastrandskog5575]

Thanks a lot for the details of kitchen. Can you deal with more informations for the hoods? I am very considering with ceiling or down way, and what is the best for functions. The cooktop will be on the island.

[@kitchinsider]

Thanks so much for watching! I did a video on island cooker hood options here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIO5hYuHfLiGrqc I hope that helps! 😁

[@neilpickup237]

My perfect kitchen island would be a height adjustable extendable table with lockable wheels. As for the worktop material, if I needed a width greater than the slab, I would bond a contrasting fillet between the two pieces. If you can't hide it - flaunt it!

[@tealkerberus748]

Height adjustable needs to be made standard in kitchens. News flash to designers, not all humans are the same height - and some of us need to sit down.

[@zepp185]

Can I ask who is the kitchen by at 1 minute 18 seconds. Love the design. Great video

[@herculezbotak]

What would be the ideal space between a wall and seating area of the kitchen island? I have approximately 3500mm width, and plan to have one row of cabinets, and the island. I am thinking of sacrificing space behind the seating side to provide more space on the workstation side and was wondering whether 800mm space is sufficient for the someone to walk behind seated persons.

[@sankalitabanerjee1690]

Thankyou for all the informations I just love the idea of island in my kitchen and always wanted one. My new kitchen is a 13 feet by 13 feet square room and I hope to put a kitchen island. Please guide me . Thankyou

[@kitchinsider]

You're welcome! Depending on the room/cabinet layout you could definitely fit an island in that sized room. Just try to allow around 3.3ft for any walkway space around the island. The island size will alter depending on where you place the cabinets around the rest of the room (single run/L-shape).

[@sankalitabanerjee1690]

@@kitchinsider thanks for the advice

[@zeveroarerules]

Big help this. Building a new house and trying to plan my "perfect kitchen". It's a love/hate thing at the moment...

[@kitchinsider]

Thanks! Glad it helped. It will be worth it in the end, once everything clicks into place it's very satisfying!

[@stuartx7]

Great video, thanks. Would you say a 1.2m Island width is enough for a hob as well as allowing space for seating opposite without people sitting too close to the hob? thanks

[@kitchinsider]

Thanks! Definitely enough space. 1.2m wide is probably the most popular size I do. Works great! If you want more space (not that I think you need it) you could look at getting a panoramic hob.

[@awami1381]

I want to have a sink in it but I want to conceal the mess I thought about having a two level island but it looks heavy and cluttered Can you talk about designing an island with two levels

[@s.wilson2702]

Would love conversion measurements to U.S. feet/inches though I can probably do a search on the minimum requirements for the appropriate clearances. I'm still in the feet/inches paradigm and have not seen fit at my age to make the brain switch.👊😉! Love the content on the topic you covered here. Getting ready to add an island to a good size kitchen that now has an L shape cabinet configuration that is quite efficient. It also has a eat-in kitchen table that I'd like to replace with an island with overhang on at least one end that looks out of two very large windows in a corner configuration with spacious "window seats" that I am going to add porcelain 24"x48" marble look tiles to (currently has 6" tiles) to use for plants and a few special accessories from my collection of blue and white and other "eye candy". It already looks out to a treehouse like setting view to a large deck under a huge pin oak tree. I plan on the island being blue and the cabinets a soft white with artisan field tiles in shades of cream/ oyster and gorgeous blue, white, cream and honey colored medallion style tiles as insets over the sink and drop in range. Will use a wood look LVT floor in a wheat/honey toned white oak looking plank as tile is too hard on my joints and I've had real wood and hate it. A dishwasher leak ruined it and never again. I have used the faux woods on other projects and find them to be a great choice. So authentic looking in that matte finish which I adore and so cost efficient in a huge variety of unique (limed/cerused) finishes that I'm actually planning on running thru my other adjoining rooms. The current dark stained teak floors are going to be more expensive to sand, bleach, refinish to a lighter look than to completely replace them. Plus I've been told the teak, which to complicate matters is "handscraped", is so hard and dense that it's not an easy job to do. Too much information I know but you have gotten my design wheels turning!

[@kitchinsider]

Yes, I need to be better at putting up the inch/feet conversions. I keep forgetting. I'm the same, my brain doesn't work the other way around! 🤯 Sounds like a lovely project and a great spot to sit at the island and watch the world. I've done lots of projects with LVT flooring, a really good option. I used the brand Karndean a lot. What are you going for? Yes, real wood in the kitchen can be tricky as soon as there's any water/moisture, I can understand a dishwasher leak putting you off. 🙁 Great idea to have the flooring run through the house, it always looks amazing!

[@zeveroarerules]

@@kitchinsider honestly you don't. They should just use real measurements, like normal people. Base 10 is the norm, not "base foot or elbow". We did away with that 18th century. If you still need a visual aid on what a centimeter is, look at the width of your thumb, it's about that.

[@12snac]

A mistake I've seen many times regarding seating at a standard counter height island...buying bar height chairs (for 42" counter) instead of counter height chairs (for a standard 36" counter)!!

[@kitchinsider]

Very good point! I've seen that too. Easily overlooked.

[@steveharris6783]

Hi, just discovered your channel - great source of info / advice - many thanks. Question re. Hob in island with seating. You mentioned thinking about making the island wider to reduce potential for splashback from cooking. Any guidance on how much wider is good practice, I.e. would it need to go from 900 to 1000 or 1100, or 1200 …..? Thanks

[@kitchinsider]

Thanks so much! In a perfect world I'd say 1100/1200mm (with a 300mm overhang depth) is nice and comfortable. But even just going from 900 to 1000mm can really help. It's getting as much as you can without sacrificing the walkway space around the island, i think the flow/walkway is more important (especially in the kitchen side of things). So it's a case of balancing everything. Another option if you're tight on space for a deeper island but want some more distance for seating is to go for a panoramic hob. Hope that helps. Thanks for watching/commenting!

[@steveharris6783]

Perfect! Again many thanks.

[@donnale3881]

I had to google a meter conversion to feet, us American use inches and feet ❤

[@thesmartsinger4912]

How do you determine the size of the sink?

[@anthonyhuntington]

I want sockets at my island but I can't tear up the kitchen floor. Any suggestions?

[@harry.nguyen17]

Useful video as usual but i think you're missing design section to talk about waterfall style, colour, overhang support, overall island look

[@kitchinsider]

Thanks! That's a great point.This video was more from a functional standpoint. I like the idea of a more 'design' focused kitchen island video. It's going on my list! Thanks!

[@harry.nguyen17]

@@kitchinsider I'm designing my kitchen now, hope to see the video before I'm done lol

[@zoilavitug4893]

I want to put my hob and downdraft in the kitchen island, and put some chairs infront

[@sophiezhou4333]

Saw your vlog too late!😭

[@MrAppukuttan93]

Can you have a kitchen island to replace a dining table?

[@kitchinsider]

Absolutely. If you would find an island more useful or can have the dinning table somewhere else. Just make sure you've got the space for an island.

[@comewithmetoghana4969]

How can I reach you ?

[@angelfari9125]

Can you design kitchen for me ☺️

[@MrGdewar]

I can’t seem to find your website, can you add to this comment?

[@kitchinsider]

No problem. Hopefully this works - kitchinsider.com/

[@tipskulhiso6763]

HOB? What the hell is that?

[@kitchinsider]

Haha! Maybe you should watch this video - kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmfdZKxmhph2nM0

[@eternallyminded7]

I was thinking the same. I only speak 'Merican.

[@tealkerberus748]

Lad I like what you're saying, but punching viewers across the eyes with whitescreen like that is not friendly!