We Created An Island From a Kitchen Table
We recently moved into a new to us home. Although the kitchen is a wonderful room, it had some wasted space in the middle that could use an island. We are paying for that square footage, and I want to use it. Even though I looked and looked, I just couldn't find a ready-made island that I liked or that was the right size. So, I shopped the house and found the perfect solution - an old kitchen table.
I knew that an island would need to be "vertical" rather than "horizontal" in the room, and I decided that a kitchen table that I used in college might do the job. For college, I had painted the table's top yellow. Now, 10 years later, I decided to use chalk paint to make it match the black granite counter tops. I sealed it with a clear wax. The pine legs blend nicely with the cabinets, and so, I left them alone.
This is what the kitchen looked like on move-in day. You can see that there was a lot of wasted space in the middle of the room.
I added a towel bar to hold dish towels and will be adding hooks to the other side for pot holders. I will also be adding a shelf to the bottom for baskets and possibly casters to make it portable. To see more photos, please visit our blog.
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How cool! Awesome idea.
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Great idea! I love how it fits your kitchen perfectly!
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