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Island Kitchen, Small - Centering The Kitchen Design

If you're planning an island kitchen, small things come in good packages.

A small kitchen island serves the same principle function as a large kitchen island - to provide a focal point in design and activity, but they also make limited space more efficient and afford greater flexibility in work space ideas and floor plan designs.

Kitchens with awkward floor plans benefit by having small kitchen islands, particularly those in cart designs, that increase available work space and storage.

Centering the preparation area by installing a small kitchen island also makes the so-called 'triangle' of sink, refrigerator, and stove more attainable, particularly if the only available countertop is near only one of them.

Plenty Of Features And Good Looks, Too

Small kitchen islands are not lacking in appearance, design, or style, however, and they feature everything a larger island does, just less of it.

Small kitchen islands are available in Contemporary, Modern Stylish, Traditional, Country and French Country, Avant Garde or Hip, Salon, and other designs and styles, and are constructed of woods like Northern Maple, Red Oak, Poplar, Birch, Pine, Ash, and exotic woods, some plantation grown.

Finishes are usually natural or oiled, stained or painted, some hand-painted or hand-rubbed.

Metals like wrought iron and stainless steel are also commonly used, sometimes in combination with wood - a stunning modern look, and, while usually left unfinished, can be painted or finished with powder-coat.

Top work surfaces are made of stone, like granite or marble, hardwood, stainless steel, and butcher block.

Small islands have the advantage of easy portability when found in a wheeled cart design.

With storage shelves, utensil racks, and butcher block cutting surfaces, they are especially useful when entertaining in other rooms or outside on the deck.

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