What do you have in your center island if you have one? Like sink, stove, dishwasher, or nothing?  Do you like it? or would you change it?  I have been seeing in a couple new buildt houses that they put just the oven in it and then the counter on top is just a counter top.  Im kinda leaning towards that.  But Ive never had just a stove top only and the oven somewhere else.  But if you have just the stove top you could put your pots and pans underneath it.  So what do you all think? 

I know I'm asking lots of building house questions but you all have came up with some opinions that I didnt think about.  So now we are going to build shop, house, and barn separate. 

THANKS FOR ALL THE HELP!!!

I have a sink and dishwasher and 3 drawers. Wouldn't change mine!

Mine has nothing. I like it a lot. If I had a sink/dishwasher there I'd have to make sure i had slide out drawers for my dishes so I wasn't turning around and back several times to clean out my dishwasher. I considered putting our slide in range in the island when we remodeled but the kitchen isn't quite big enough to do it....my fridge door and oven door would have hit if you opened them at the same time. So we just did a big island and left it. 

We have nothing as well and we love it. I knew the lady personally who we bought this house from and she actually had a vegetable sink in there before she decided she didnt like it there.....I was quite devastated when she said she wasnt going to put that back in when she replaced the counter tops before we moved in...So the good news is that, it is plumbed for a sink if and when we want to put it back in!

I have a stove top island with storage under neat for the pots and pans, I do have two electric outlets on both ends of the island, so you can use a electric skillet or whatever else you need, not thrilled with it and could live without it but it's there so living with it, the only thing I would suggest is make darn sure the hood for the heat and light is high enough for you so that you dont catch the edge of it with your head while walking around it, it was tall enough for the people that built this house but not for me and hubby we're taller then the folks that built this house and dang it it really hurts when you catch that edge with your head, its not real low but low enough, I dont hit it all the time but that one time when I do I want to rip it off the celling, lol..Cause it really hurts

My kitchen island measures 6x7 and it has 6 large drawers for pots and pans and 4 normal drawers on one side, and on the other side where we have counter height chairs, there are 2 shallow cabinets under where your legs go if you are seated at the island. I wouldn't change it. There is plenty of room in the rest of the kitchen for the appliances and more than enough ample counterspace elsewhere. All topped in granite.

Mine is the shape of half a stop sign with a slide in stove in the center.  Slide out shelves with a drawer above on each side of stove.  We have 4 hanging/swivel chairs on the back side.  Love it and would do it all over again in a heart beat.

Mine has storage for pots and pans underneath and a few electric outlets for when I want to use the griddle, instapot or crockpot. I typically store the bigger things in it because there is no shelves. I might get some pull out ones built if my hubby ever gets around to it. But it's fine the way it is. I keep the crockpots, blenders food savers and such items under there since they take up the most room. 

My biggest regret when I built my house in 1993......no center island.    

The center island we have has spice drawers(a lot, Louisiana), measuring cups, many cooking utensils, knives, cutting boards, mixers,  and choppers. I wish I had more plug ins and a small sink.

And a huge six burner gas cooktop.  Oops. 

Thank you!  I'm thinking bout doing the center island with an oven and have full counter top.  and having the stove top along a wall with counter space on ea side and having storage for pots and pans under the stove top.  we dont have kitchen table and will use the center island to eat at. and if I put oven in it then all have to do is put the hot stuff right on top. and I think this will work well at christmas bc It would give more top to stand around and eat.  Everyone in my family hangs out in kitchen anyways.  And the kitchen and living room with be open to each other.  I want a coffee bar along a wall by the door to the porch because me and hubby love sitting on porch drinking coffee.  I seen some really cute coffee bars! 

Ours is just a more like a bar. I love it and wouldn't change it

I have nothing in mine and I love it.

Your kitchen

We just finished building our Shouse... It has been quite a process! LOL Our center island is like a half octagon. It is just cabinets with drawers and shelves for storage. My husband and I loved this shape of an island as soon as we saw it but, we lost cabinet space by doing it this way. If we had went with a straight island or L shape we would have had more cabinet space. Just something to think about. :) With all that said, ours is exactly what we wanted and we love it! 

Thank you so much

I really like that shape too very nice

We have one and it has six large drawers and several electrical outlets. The storage is a necessity for our kitchen and we use the island for prepping food before cooking. I don't think we could function without it lol.

We have a large center island in our kitchen. We built our house 4 years ago. One side is the island, and the other island is a bar with stools. Our sink and dishwasher are in the island, and we also have quite a few drawers where I keep our dishes, silverware and misc kitchen gadgets.

Wow! nice pictures!  Center island definetely the way to go no matter the setup.  Crosspur I love the way you made ea part of your kitchen different but yet it all ties in together! and different colors! and the skillets and the cast iron, and I definetely want the coffee to have its own space.  Thank You everyone!!!  Now the next question how in the world to wait patiently for the build to start!!!!

I have another question bout the kitchen.  What about having a sink catty corner?  Im not going to have any top cabinets.  To me its wasted space anyways. I hate my corner cabinet I have in my house now.  So not sure what to do with a corner.

We were going to put the tiles that are behind the sink behind the stove too, but they have lots of crooves & spaces in them that grease would get in & I thought they would be impossible to clean so we put stone tiles behind the stove. The counter the sink is in is an old counter out of the Ft Scott KS boot store. It is very old so we didn't want to cut the front of it to make cabnets, so you go in the mud room behind it to get in it. It has shelves and is my pantry on the back side, my husband built a small sliding barn door that covers the shelves & storage.