Add attractive pendant lighting over the peninsula and you ve got an instant update to your cooking space.
Peninsula between kitchen and dining room.
Traffic stopped in this cramped kitchen due to a poorly placed peninsula blocking the path between the kitchen and dining room.
As mentioned earlier peninsulas generally close off a certain section of the kitchen by creating a border between the cooking space and the dining or living space.
Doing so can create a great opportunity to add a peninsula in the vacant space.
Update your kitchen peninsula with a step up solution.
If you don t plan on doing lots of entertaining in your kitchen and you want a bit of privacy when cooking a peninsula is a much better choice than an island in your kitchen.
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Photo by cm natural designs.
The kitchen peninsula creates a wonderful extra seating area for entertaining dining and serves as a customized division between the kitchen area and living room.
Also the dining room was rarely used.
Employing a kitchen island between kitchen and dining room as a room barrier is an alternative to walls.
It needed an open layout to make it more functional.
The solution was to combine the two rooms into one spacious family room kitchen that suits an informal lifestyle.
These over sized cabinets add storage space extra work surfaces and decor appeal all at once.
Likewise some homeowners with kitchens with three connected walls may want to explore taking out one wall to create a more open flow between the kitchen and dining room or kitchen and living room.