How much clearance do I need between an island and my other counters in the kitchen?
30 inches, but 36 is better. To be sure, open all your cabinetry and oven doors and fridge in the location where you desire the island and then determine the size of the island. Usually an Island will be 24 inches in depth. Length can be determined as well depending, again on where those cabinet doors open. And don’t forget that if you intend to have cabinet doors on the island itself you’ll need to take that into consideration as well. of course it’s not as if all the cabinet doors need to be open at once, but it goes that way sometimes. You just want to be sure that you can get into the cabinet with ease if you now have something blocking your body as you bend down. My island is movable. I like it that way so that I can just take the whole thing out of the kitchen if I need to stretch the kitchen table (which I sometimes do for large gatherings and when the dining room will also be in service) I position it so that I have 36 inch clearance on the sink side which is where I stand. The
