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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 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
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
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.
Thanks so much for watching! I did a video on island cooker hood options here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2RVTXQGSSxE.html I hope that helps! 😁
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
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).
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!
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!
@@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.
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.
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!
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)!!
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
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.
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
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.
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
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!
