Most days of the week I seem to have an extra person eating dinner with us, it makes me happy. I love feeding people; I know that sounds strange but I really do. I enjoy cooking adult meals however; I don’t love cooking kids meals. My island’s so called bookshelves at the end were frankly really annoying. Anything I put their meant I had to dust, I don’t enjoy dusting! So hubby took out the shelves and added our freestanding furniture legs we had previously purchased 50% off a few months prior.
Taking out the shelves exposed the bare cement on the floor, “oops!”
Thank goodness we had lots of leftover stone from when we replaced our tile a few years back.
We took a hammer, broke it up and added it as a mosaic, I think it gives it a very unique feel. My oldest son had lots of fun helping.
We placed wainscoting over the existing cabinet on both ends (front/back) and framed the wainscoting with large shadow boxes, again using the smooth pinewood. We added a very simple small trim inside the boxes.
On the microwave side we added 2 small shadowboxes with small wood trim to give it more of a custom feel. We wrapped ¾ of the island with a tall baseboard and gave the cabinet side some feet to spruce up the look of the island.
The last step, paint! We used the color onxz black.
Voila! I’m extremely happy with the end result. It looks like a piece of furniture and we now have room for 2 extra guests at anytime.
I have a tutorial here on how we added legs to the island.
Thanks for stopping by!
Kristin
Where did you get your pendant lights above your kitchen island? I love those.
pendants above island? I’ve looked everywhere for unique pendants, can you share the place you found them? thank you!
I agree–the lights are beautiful. Please let us know where you found them. Thank you!
I love your kitchen counter. Can you tell me the name/brand of it? I assume it is granite.
Kristin, this is perfect!! I just LOVE it. I wish I had room to extend my island but you give me hope for the next house..lol
xoxo
Denyse
Kristen, I think you got this one totally right! I love the extra space underfoot and the added mouldings add detail and style. I think you should do a side by side before and after graphic for people to pin… it is a super improvement!
Your island looks fabulous in black Kristin and the spindle legs make it look sooo much better! I like your mosaic tile solution too – what a great idea!!
Looks beautiful!! We did something similar to ours about a year or so ago. I love that yours houses your microwave.
Wow, I l-o-v-e it! Gorgeous results.
thank you so much
U did a beautiful job! Do you remember which small wood trims u used?