Island Time
Spring Break season is upon us and has many thinking about their favorite island, dreaming of relaxing with their favorite beverage while sampling the freshly prepared local cuisine, surrounded by their favorite getaway feel and style. Some yearn for barefoot cottagy, others, high-style, refined luxury. Quite honestly, not that indifferent to what we will be doing this same season – thinking islands…
When working on log home floorplans and room relationships or helping clients work through kitchen flow, the kitchen island seams to be in the front and center. It is as personal to clients as the above mentioned travel escapes, embodying their personality and style in many aspects – look, feel, cooking style, lifestyle. To some in this world, it is utilitarian, a piece of furniture (non Cedar home types…). To most of our clients, it is the very hub or heart of the very hub or heart of the home, the kitchen; EVERYTHING revolves it. Prep, cooking, serving, shucking, breakfast, lunch, casual dinner, newspaper, coffee, wine, crafts, homework, fly-tying…even dancing… Some clients go as far as wanting two islands; one main with seating (a.k.a. the bar), one auxiliary for extra entertaining horsepower. Log, timber, barnwood, finished, stainless, live-edge, granite, quartz, slate, tile, and the list goes on. A home’s overall design personality may be rustic or refined rustic, cottage or contemporary, luxury or loft, but the island can be that alter ego, that inner being, something completely unique. What is your “island style”?…
Full disclosure – I am also thinking about that other type of island …
