This basic, ready-to-assemble IKEA island features a butcher-block slab, which the homeowner stained to match his walnut cabints. Outfitting the island with casters raises its height to accomodate ...

In the kitchen, an island is surrounded on all sides not by water, but by foot traffic and day-to-day household activity. Situated at the heart of the home's busiest room, a well-designed kitchen ...