Traffic stopped in this cramped kitchen due to a poorly placed peninsula blocking the path between the kitchen and dining room.
Peninsula between kitchen and dining room.
If you don t plan on doing lots of entertaining in your kitchen and you want a bit of privacy when cooking a peninsula is a much better choice than an island in your kitchen.
Add attractive pendant lighting over the peninsula and you ve got an instant update to your cooking space.
The large new peninsula counter defines the main circulation route to the new deck and it separates and marks the transition between family room and kitchen activities.
As mentioned earlier peninsulas generally close off a certain section of the kitchen by creating a border between the cooking space and the dining or living space.
Doing so can create a great opportunity to add a peninsula in the vacant space.
Employing a kitchen island between kitchen and dining room as a room barrier is an alternative to walls.
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Also the dining room was rarely used.
The waterfall peninsula offers space on one side for meal prep with plenty of dining space on the far side.
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The kitchen peninsula creates a wonderful extra seating area for entertaining dining and serves as a customized division between the kitchen area and living room.
It needed an open layout to make it more functional.
The solution was to combine the two rooms into one spacious family room kitchen that suits an informal lifestyle.
The coffered ceiling adds height and depth to this contemporary kitchen design.