The hardworking kitchen island can be a very functional and beautiful centerpiece of a kitchen design, and it's one of the most popular features of a modern kitchen. But it's not the only way to go.

If you’ve always dreamed of living in a large home with a kitchen island, there’s no reason you can’t achieve a similar effect right now. In fact, if your kitchen has even a little bit of floor space, ...

From embracing the relaxed elegance of British-inspired kitchens to saying goodbye to white cabinetry to (gasp!) rethinking the need of the kitchen triangle, 2025 is the year you forget everything you ...

Given how ubiquitous, even obligatory, a center island has become, a kitchen without one feels subversive. Sarah Stacey, an interior designer in Austin, Texas, is seeing that changing: “As people move ...

Freestanding kitchen islands are replacing bulky built-ins. Here’s why designers are embracing unfitted kitchens and ...

I Don’t Own a Kitchen Island and I Don’t Miss It Because My Kitchen Flows Perfectly Let's be real for a second: kitchen ...

Mustering up ultrafunctional small kitchen island ideas may seem challenging, but it’s worth the effort. After all, an island is the star of the kitchen, and even with a tiny footprint, these pieces ...

Most kitchen plans are executed on autopilot. You’ve got major appliances, cabinets and a loveseat-sized island with three obligatory stools facing the cook and the same number of light pendants above ...

For the recurring series, That’s Debatable, we take on a contentious issue of the day and present two spirited arguments—one in favor and the other emphatically opposed. Previous installments from the ...

Sometimes, it's fun to look back on kitchen design features from the past, but some will make you wonder why they're not ...

Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. I used to complain that kitchen islands had become so big that they were now kitchen ...