Kitchen Benchtop Island Ideas for your 2025 renovation
How to Choose the Right Kitchen Benchtop Island for Your 2024 Reno.
In this guide we share with you some serious kitchen island benchtop inspiration, helping you to decide what design style works for your project with some awesome examples to boot.
Before you decide to go head with a kitchen benchtop island design for your project or not, considering the following
- Cost: Is an island within your budget
- Space: Do you have the space for a kitchen island?
- Material: What material are you using and why?
- Design: How will you design your island around the rest of the kitchen?
These three things alone could make or break your decision and we will dive into each in the article below.
1. Understanding the cost of your kitchen island benchtop design
Of course, one way to keep your costs manageable is to not have an island bench at all, but if it's a must have element of your kitchen reno, here's how to lower costs.
Material selection: Keep cost lower by looking at material selections from the lower ranges of our stone selection. Styles like our Crystallo and Tambora offer truly on-trend design styles, while keeping costs low.
This allows you to look at more premium ranges to allow your kitchen benchtop and splashback to be the focal point of the space, while keeping your island benchtop design more minimal.
A second way to keep costs low is to consider your edge profile. If you like a more modern design style, look at having an exposed edge without any 40mm or 60mm edge profiles like the design below.
Not only is a great contemporary look, it can also lower your fabrication rates by hundreds of dollars. For more, chat with your stonemason.
2. Do you have the space for a kitchen benchtop island?
This is an obvious question, but with the average island benchtop being anywhere from 1900mm x 600mm to 3000mm x 600mm it's definitely something to consider when looking at maximising slab selections to get the most bang for your buck.
Your island bench could be your primary food preparation or serving area and therefore requires more space, or alternatively, it could be something that allows you just to have a little more benchtop space when cooking a meal, or to have a few more drawers for cupboard space.
To maximise space, without overpowering the rest of your kitchen, consider a kitchen benchtop island overhang, allowing you to hide away dining chairs when not using them to eat a meal or entertain.
3. Choosing the right material for your kitchen island benchtop design
Okay, we're a little bias of course, but our entire 2024 Techlam Sintered Stone Collection couldn't be anymore perfect for your kitchen island design, but why?
Because it's:
- Heat resistant
- Stain resistant
- Scratch resistant
- Bacteria resistant
- 100% natural and sustainable
- 100% approved by the government
- Contains 95% recycled materials without any loss of quality.
- Replicates natural marble, with a serious 2024 production upgrade
- Never requires sealing on ongoing maintenance
It's exactly why designers and renovators all over Perth and Sydney are already choosing our Techlam Sintered stone designs, thanks to it's incredible durability and super easy to maintain nature.
4. How do you design your kitchen island around the rest of your space?
There are two consideration at play here.
- Do you want to make your kitchen island a feature of the space
- Do you want it to work in conjunction with your existing, or chosen kitchen benchtop designs for a more consistent flow.
This comes down to the point mentioned above regarding costs, however as the trends change, island benchtops used to be the true feature statement of a space, however these days the splashback is often the star of the space with the island bench having the same design as the chosen kitchen benchtop.
Ultimately, the decision is yours however here at Asetica, we love seeing a consistent styled kitchen, where island benchtops, splashback and benchtops all work together in harmony with a consistent style and flow.
But hey, we aren't here to judge and the decision is ultimately yours!
If you're looking for more kitchen benchtop and island inspiration, take a look at the rest of our 2024 Techlam Sintered Stone Collection and follow us on Instagram for daily updates.