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04/03/12

Turning a kitchen island into a piece of furniture

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.

 

When we added the double oven I lost my microwave space. I’ve seen the microwaves inserted into the islands and figured that would be the most sensible. My hubby cut out a hole and luckily we already had an existing electrical plate so we were able to tap into the electrical and hook the microwave up.

 

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

 

If you missed other parts of kitchen transformation you can find them here:
How to add height to your cabinets
How to paint oak cabinets
How to add glass to a wood cabinet
Making a island look custom

 

 

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  1. Stephanie Durdan says

    April 12, 2012 at 11:19 am

    Where did you get your pendant lights above your kitchen island? I love those.

    Reply
    • gina hutchins says

      March 20, 2013 at 8:04 am

      pendants above island? I’ve looked everywhere for unique pendants, can you share the place you found them? thank you!

      Reply
      • Andrea says

        April 29, 2013 at 10:12 am

        I agree–the lights are beautiful. Please let us know where you found them. Thank you!

        Reply
  2. Julie says

    September 5, 2012 at 7:09 pm

    I love your kitchen counter. Can you tell me the name/brand of it? I assume it is granite.

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  3. Denyse @ Glitter, Glue & Paint says

    August 18, 2013 at 2:21 pm

    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

    Reply
  4. Cynthia @ A Button Tufted Life... says

    August 19, 2013 at 9:11 am

    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!

    Reply
  5. Inspire Me Heather says

    August 21, 2013 at 4:59 am

    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!!

    Reply
  6. [email protected] says

    August 22, 2013 at 7:30 pm

    Looks beautiful!! We did something similar to ours about a year or so ago. I love that yours houses your microwave.

    Reply
  7. Ivory says

    September 14, 2016 at 7:02 am

    Wow, I l-o-v-e it! Gorgeous results.

    Reply
    • Kristin says

      September 14, 2016 at 7:55 am

      thank you so much

      Reply
  8. Isabelle says

    April 11, 2018 at 11:31 pm

    U did a beautiful job! Do you remember which small wood trims u used?

    Reply

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