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    Best Kitchen Island with Seating

    A client wanted us to build the best kitchen island with seating we could create …to place in the center of their existing kitchen. Their cabinets were a medium brown stain with over-lay doors… nice but ‘nothing special’. In this case we weren’t looking to match the other cabs but to have an island made to stand out by contrast. We decided we’d paint this new island a very dark brown (almost black).
    If it was to be somewhat bolder than the other cabinets, I needed to make them with a heavy face frame (3” wide stiles) that surrounded the doors and door fronts and to mount them inside the openings (known as ‘inset’) instead of the doors over-lapping like the rest of the kitchen. Additionally, we went with deeply paneled side walls and a strong detail molding for panels and the base molding’s cap. This would give the piece more weight and substance. Make it older and richer looking.


    After a a few sketches about the layout, here is my final rendering of the island’s floor plan with a elevation view of it’s face.





    Another detail to help make the island bold, is to use larger legs. Here are some choices in 6” diameter that I showed them.





    And here is how it turned out…..














    They wanted the best kitchen island with seating that would fit in the space they had. I think they got it.


    Russell Hudson / Hudson Cabinetmaking, Inc.

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    That is one GREAT looking island..... You nailed it.
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    ty, brother / appreciate it

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    Russell, Where in Carmel are you? I am in Brewster. I would love to stop over and meet another Creeker. Beautiful island by the way.

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    Nice! Makes the rest of the kitchen look plain.

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    ty, Jamie / if something looks better, something has to look worse

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    Beautiful island.
    Do you mind if i ask the brand or where you got those stools? They appear to meet all my wife's requirements - wood, padded seat, swivel, closed back. Closed back being the hardest to meet

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    sorry, Jay / client got them / I have no idea where except that they live in Connecticut (no too far from Ethan Allen, btw)

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    Safe to say you knocked that one out of the park!

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    Russell, whenever I see photographs of one of your projects, I somehow manage to find a little more admiration for your skills. Nicely done sir!
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    So much to learn, so little time.....

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    appreciate it, Ken / really do

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    Quote Originally Posted by julian abram View Post
    Safe to say you knocked that one out of the park!
    It deserves a good video / someday... / thx, julian

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    very nice Russell. Just browsed your web site - lots of very cool work. Especially the upper cabinet with the mask in the side frame. Well done!
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    thx, Bill / yeah... the mask was an interesting inclusion / somewhat indulgent but 'what the hell', it's my kitchen. Almost every client wouldn't understand a detail as strong as that LOL

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    Cool. Makes sense it's yours. Clients like that don't come around very often. I had one a long time ago. Long, weird story. But you make neat stuff.
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