What would you make?

[katharina]

Would you have your island set up with as an extra prep area or would be strictly for storage, with a little overhang and a few stools for quick meals?

I know you asked this to someone else but since I desperately need an island, too, I'll answer it. I'd like as much storage space as I could get out of it but it would also be important for it to give me some extra prep space. I sadly lack that in my current kitchen setup.

 

[heretoday]

Wow, there are such neat ideas! I've wanted an overhead pot and pan rack for forever. I love Lazy Susans, they are great on a table or in a cupboard.

 

[chocoguy]

I think that I would make a kitchen table so that we could use it for cooking purpose. We are scratching the dining table every time we are using it for kitchen works.

 

[katharina]

Wow, there are such neat ideas! I've wanted an overhead pot and pan rack for forever. I love Lazy Susans, they are great on a table or in a cupboard.

I think a lazy susan would be a great beginner project for anyone just getting into woodworking! I've wanted one for my table but so far have settled for a decorative flat tray.

 

[Laughingmouse]

Some families use the kitchen table for crafts as well, so it would be cool to make a table that had drawers for the crafts items.

One piece of furniture, two uses!

 

[heretoday]

I think a lazy susan would be a great beginner project for anyone just getting into woodworking! I've wanted one for my table but so far have settled for a decorative flat tray.

Right now I have two (plastic) lazy susans in my kitchen; in the spice cupboard, and in the cupboard where we keep our vitamins. I couldn't imagine not being to keep those cupboards in any kind of order without the lazy susans. They just save so much time, and space as well.
I would love to have one of those big, old-fashioned wooden ones on my kitchen table, to hold all the stuff that just winds up piled in the middle in a big mess!

 

[Laughingmouse]

I wonder how difficult it would be to make wooden herb grinders?

They'd be just like those pepper grinders and they could have the name of the herb they grind on the side. You could stock each grinder with a dried herb from your garden.

That might be something nice, and special, to have in a kitchen!