When we first looked at this house one of the things that I had mixed emotions about was the dropped surface of part of the kitchen counter island. Obviously it was intended to have a couple of counter stools tucked up to it, and I like that idea a lot, but I really would have preferred that it just have an overhang instead of a dropped level.
The house that I had lived in before I was lucky enough to have been able to design my own kitchen and have all of the cabinets custom built by a master cabinet maker so I had everything exactly the way I wanted and designed it to be. So I have to admit that I was spoiled in that regard, having everything exactly the way I wanted. That’s really hard to compete with, but since we were planning to move about seven hundred miles away we really needed to get a different house.
From time to time I think about how I would redesign this kitchen if I had the chance, and I have to admit that I really don’t know any way to make it better, given the shape and size of the kitchen. Except for that dropped counter.