Creating a Personalized Kitchen Island

This week, our blogger Peggy explains to us how she went about making a personalized kitchen island! Read on…! 

When purchasing our new house, my partner and I wanted a mega kitchen island for our evenings with friends or simply for family time. The kitchen being huge, allowed us to build the island of our dreams. 

I was lucky enough to find a kitchen island for sale on Marketplace. So, once the island was purchased, all that remained was to spruce it up since it was, how shall I say, a little beat up, poor thing!

Lucky as I am, my man gave me carte blanche to revamp this island!

The products used

• Colorantic Chalk Paint: Cotton Ball
• Colorantic Sandblasting Block
• Vernis mat Colorantic
• Pinceau oval #10 Colorantic
• Velvet finished foam roller Colorantic
• Cleaner and  varnish remover Colorantic
• Tinted oil
• 4 x 4 spruce to make the legs
• Wooden counter

I started by buying everything I was going to need. In times of COVID, I really didn’t want to start a project and get stuck with an unfinished island in my kitchen due to lack of materials!

Step 1

I started by stripping the old island of its faded countertop. 

Step 2

• I applied the Cleaner and Varnish remover Colorantic on all surfaces and I left it on for a good 30 minutes. Once the time was up, I mhttps://colorantic.com/en/product/wax-naturelle-dabeille/ade sure to rinse very well twice to remove all the residue. You can never clean enough, as my grandmother used to say.

 Step 3

• Using 120 grain paper, I lightly scratched the surfaces, both the wood and the melamine. Besides, it was my first experience with melamine.

 Step 4

• I made the legs with 4 x 4 spruce pieces. I sanded more intensely until I got a soft touch finish.

Step 5

• For the part that would serve as the base of my island, I applied two coats of Cotton Ball paint to the wooden part and three coats to the melamine part. 

• The legs are made of raw wood, so I applied three layers of cotton ball. Obviously, I took the trouble to lightly sand between each coat to get the best result!

 Step 6

• For the finish, I applied two coats of Colorantic matte varnish. I admit I hesitated a little between the varnish. I hesitated a lot between the varnish and the Natural Bee wax from Colorantic, but given that the island would require regular maintenance, the varnish was the best choice. 

 Step 7

• With the furniture and legs completed, I needed my man’s help to assemble this beautiful puzzle and “shime” everything so that it was square. 

 Step 8

• Once everything was “shimmed” to the gentleman’s taste, all I had to do was oil the wooden counter. I used a medium walnut colored tinted oil to somewhat match the island to my kitchen cabinets which are partly made of dark wood!

There you have it, several hours of work later, I finally had the island I so desired in my kitchen and all that for just under $500.00! 

It’s not nothing though! Once again, Colorantic products gave me a perfect finish and mean that my island is now the big star of the kitchen. 

All we have to do is wait until COVID is behind us to invite friends and have a drink in good company…And find some benches on Marketplace!

 Now you know how make a beautiful kitchen island inexpensively. Isn’t that wonderful!

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