Our modern ideas for kitchen islands cover rooms of all sizes,<br />and can make you think differently about how your design works.<br /><br />An island can place additional storage and<br />plan just where you need it for starters.<br />A long island may become the main workstation, housing sink, and hob, too,<br />with the trend for most of the kitchen to vanish behind high pantry-style doors.<br /><br />See: New ideas for<br />kitchens-contemporary cooking and entertainment designs<br /><br />And while the double galley kitchen is still the most ergonomic kitchen layout, with its two parallel<br />rows of work space, an island will help build this set up in an open plan space.<br />It will be a more sociable space<br />than the island and the enclosed kitchen.
