First, forgive the pictures, I did not take them. They are from a real estate agent after I misplaced an entire flash memory card. I think he was trying to be artistic with his camera angles. Seriously.
Oh the kitchen island… “The cobblers children have no shoes and the thatcher’s house has no roof.” This thing has been on my list to complete for months in our rental house. I had plans for the cabinets that I sort of obsessed over. I planned for a cookbook cabinet, plugs for the undercounter microwave, and a wine fridge. I was going to do drawers and slides and a set of 4 swivel bench seats. I had three iterations of design – from a notebook sketch to 3D model. All for naught.
In the end, with a tenant move-in date looming, I ended up with big-box store ready-made cabinets, juiced up with trim and wired for just the wine fridge. I put on a remnant granite top – that matched the current kitchen granite perfectly! It looks great. Works beautifully in the house. There is a lesson there that I need to take more to heart: sometimes great and complete is better than AMAZING and not started.
