Kitchen Island With Seating

I needed more storage space in the kitchen so we decided to build a large kitchen island with bar stool seating. I wanted a better use of the space as well as being more practical, it's quite tight on countertop space when there are a few of us doing things in the kitchen.

This is the kitchen before, we are going to store the table and use it for Christmas, but we will get rid of the chairs as they are quite bulky.

The bench was also used as storage as well as seating.

We added the bench back in 2018 so we have had it for a while now, see post here

15th August 2025, Scott started taking the existing unit and the storage bench apart, it is at an angle and we wanted to straighten it up.

Upon taking the unit apart, we came across this writing, I'm not sure of the date I wrote it, but it was when we were remodelling the kitchen years ago, long before I started the blog.

16th August, he went to buy some supplies and start making up the carcass of the extended unit.

He had to repatch the flooring as we are not getting new flooring at the moment.

We dismantled our kitchen table for storage.

He joined three new countertops together to give us one large island.

He removed this old countertop as it was at an angle and we needed a straight line to join the new countertop that he made.

( Excuse the rugs scattered all over the floor, our almost 17 year old dog needs them to navigate across the flooring.)

I am going to have fun decorating this large area for the various holidays, Halloween will be the first one.

I have been on the look out for one of these gurgling fish jugs for some time now, I wanted a pink one, but they are so expensive.

So when I spotted one in The Reject Shop for $16, I just had to get it.

Needless to say, I got Scott to paint it pink for me! 😁

It has given me so much more storage space.

Darren had to make his coffee in the living room 😜

We couldn't use the countertop until it had dried, so I had to do everything on a camping table in the middle of the kitchen.

We also changed the light fitting.

We bought the bar stools from Kmart.

I love how everything seamlessly flows now, all the countertops match instead of the mismatched ones we had before.

It looks so good when you see it beside the before photo (above).

It has made a huge difference and given me a lot more storage and counter top space.

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