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Kitchen - breakfast bar?
callmechar
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We are doing the kitchen in our house. The kitchen and dining room were 2 rooms, now 1 room as we knocked through. Its a rectangular room measuring 6m wide by 3m. The actual "kitchen" size is about 3m x 3m.
We are putting in a new kitchen and where the wall we knocked through was we are putting in an island - more units attached to the wall to the middle of the floor. This will be units in the kitchen area with worktop measuring about 2m long on the top of it. However this worktop will be visible in both the diner side and the kitchen side of the room.
We do not want a breakfast bar but need the worktop here to be finished on both sides unlike normal worktops.
The smallest worktop width is 665mm whereas the worktops are 600mm. We do not want a breakfast bar and ideally want it same size as the worktops however I have heard the edging on worktops is rubbish. Should we just buy a normal worktop and put an edging strip on to cover the edge? Are they any good?
We are putting in a new kitchen and where the wall we knocked through was we are putting in an island - more units attached to the wall to the middle of the floor. This will be units in the kitchen area with worktop measuring about 2m long on the top of it. However this worktop will be visible in both the diner side and the kitchen side of the room.
We do not want a breakfast bar but need the worktop here to be finished on both sides unlike normal worktops.
The smallest worktop width is 665mm whereas the worktops are 600mm. We do not want a breakfast bar and ideally want it same size as the worktops however I have heard the edging on worktops is rubbish. Should we just buy a normal worktop and put an edging strip on to cover the edge? Are they any good?
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The edging trips are fine if they are put on properly by somebody tha knows what they are doing.Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide.0
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I agree, edging strips are perfectly fine. Some glue on, some iron on, my OH says you can sand down the edge once its on to get a flush edge.0
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Just bare in mind that edging tape typically comes in 1200mm lengths from most retailers, so you will have a visible join in the edging, unless you can find a matching edging in 2000mm+...If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands
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The alternative I've seen done is to have an island done in a different material such as wood or granite to the rest of the worktop.0
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Sounds like this is more a peninsular than an island though...If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands
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Sounds like this is more a peninsular than an island though...
I've also seen it done with a peninsula
In the case of a kitchen/diner if its laid out anything like ours which has a peninsula then the change of material can work quite nicely to visually separate the two when you are in the dining half giving you a little bit less of the impression that you are sitting in the kitchen.0 -
I've also seen it done with a peninsula
I have too...only time it's looked right is when it's been granite/quartz with solid wood.
REALLY not a good idea with laminate...If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands
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