The Newfangled Kitchen Island
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The ultra modern kitchen doesn't differ too much fromkitchens of say 20 or even 30 years ago. It's still home to a cooker and asink, a fridge and possibly a freezer and there's still plenty of storage spacefor food, pots and pans, crockery and cutlery. In spite of the fundamentalsimilarities, one can tell at a glance whether a kitchen is old fashioned orultra modern and the difference is in the design, not the functionality. Thekitchen is still the hub of the home, the room in which food is stored,prepared and served. However the kitchen is evolving.
From the tiny kitchens of terraced housing seen onCoronation Street to the large kitchen diner which is common in mostsemi-detached or detached housing, the kitchen became a place to socialise, toeat together instead of a solitary room designed purely for cooking. It wasthis step forward which saw the birth of modern kitchen design; kitchen base unitsbecame 'standard' which meant finding just replacement kitchen doors was fareasier than ever before. Giving the modern kitchen a make-over can be done in aday of you just want to change the kitchen doors and drawer fronts. And evenreplacing the kitchen base units too can be done in a weekend if you're anadept DIYer.
Many modern kitchens feature the breakfast bar; a small areaof worktop, often with no kitchen base units beneath leaving room for a coupleof stools making a handy area for eating breakfast or any other quick snack.The down side of the breakfast bar is they are seldom used. It seems like agreat idea at the time but essentially, the breakfast bar is a waste of space.However even this has come of age with the development if the 'island'. Nolonger is the centre of a large kitchen taken up with a dining table andchairs, as the 'island' offers even more storage space, puts the sink or hobcentre stage and gives much more workspace for food preparation.
Essentially a kitchen 'island' is either two, three or fourkitchen units assembled in the centre of the kitchen. The worktops can be leftfree or can easily accommodate a sink or even a hob, however plumbing in a sinkwith underfloor drainage or fitting a gas or electric hob may require thehiring of specialist trades. The beauty of the kitchen island is the personpreparing the food no longer has to face the wall, allowing them cook andsocialise without constantly having to twist and turn. The kitchen island haschanged the kitchen from being merely a place to cook and store food to thesocial hub of the home.
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