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Help Me Style My Kitchen Island
One of the problems we designers have is we’re so busy working on everyone else’s homes that we don’t have time to fix up our own. Now I’m working on Apartment Therapy’s Kitchen Cure. One of our assignments in week 2 was to do something special for our kitchens, like buy a painting, etc. Something that’s been on my list of things to do is to style the island in my kitchen.
I thought I’d open it up to my readers. Think of it as a Design Dilemma in reverse. I’d like to keep the 24″ lazy susan and create a line of baskets to hold fruit, a cake plate with a cover for cookies, and other cooking things.
Do you have any ideas? Are there any products that you really love that you think would work here? By the way, that’s a candle on the lazy susan. It can go. And that’s a bottle of olive oil.
Can you help me out? I find that my readers have tons of great ideas and I’m open to any and all suggestions. To make it even more fun, let’s forget the budget. Price is no object (at least for now – gulp!). So let it rip!
6 Responses to “Help Me Style My Kitchen Island”
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Posted by Jennifer on October 28th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Great idea! Should it be paper maché or ceramic? Oh, sorry. It doesn’t go with my color scheme.
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Posted by Candied Fabrics on October 31st, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Hmmm…do you USE this island? It’s not that big, I could see that too much stuff on it could get in the way if it were in use. I’m always a big fan of a gorgeous bowl filled with seasonal fruit/veggies that people could actually eat.
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Posted by Jennifer on November 2nd, 2009 at 7:56 am
I agree with your comment. The problem is that it has to be a giant bowl or the rest of the island looks naked. That’s why I’m thinking of a few things – not too many – on the island. Because it’s so empty we use it to pile all our junk on it.Maybe a bowl and some large candlesticks?
What I really need to do it what I do for my clients and go shopping, buy a bunch of things to try out and return the things that don’t work. I’m putting a great bowl on my list!
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Posted by Shirley Westbury on January 22nd, 2010 at 8:52 am
Could you paint your island a different color than the cabinets?
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Posted by Jennifer on January 23rd, 2010 at 5:23 pm
A very interesting idea. Thanks!
A whole roast pig. (With an apple in its mouth)