Update a Plain Kitchen Island or Peninsula with Planks and Corbels

Kitchen islands are one of my favorite projects to browse — so many shapes, so many styles, so many great features, and it’s pretty easy to build a freestanding island or update a builder-basic plain kitchen island. Our guest today gave her kitchen peninsula some great style and character to match the rest of her clean white coastal kitchen:

This is such a good-looking but simple update. The planks add some very nice shiplap type texture, and the corbels prevent the “floating countertop” syndrome the sometimes happens (and sometimes drives some people crazy BlogThis!