old meets new

If you ask anyone who spends a lot of time in the kitchen, updated appliances are a must for efficient cooking (stainless steel preferred!). But there is something so charming about balancing all that newness with a beautiful antique. The kitchen isn't generally a place with a lot of room for decorative furniture, so the best way to do this is to convert an antique into a functional piece of furniture. The kitchens below have done this successfully with the kitchen island.

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Adding a stainless steel or granite top to one of these tables would make a beautiful island.

{One Kings Lane, Obsolete, Relics}