Peninsula Kitchens in London

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Peninsula kitchen layout, illustrated cutaway How a peninsula worksSee the layout ↓ Maida Vale Handleless Kitchen in London: cream matt handleless doors with a white marble worktop, peninsula breakfast bar, walnut accents and black pendant lights; the peninsula breakfast bar with stools, pendant lights and walnut tall units. Made to measure by Metro Home InteriorsMaida Vale Handleless KitchenView this design → Shoreditch Oak Handleless Kitchen in London: light oak woodgrain handleless doors with a dark grey stone worktop, black tall units and a walnut dining table; the full L-shaped run with black oven tower, wall units and a walnut dining table. Made to measure by Metro Home InteriorsShoreditch Oak Handleless KitchenView this design → Clapham compact white shaker U-shaped kitchen with black bar handles, a black fridge-freezer, marble splashback and a washing machine, LondonClapham Shaker KitchenView this design → Marylebone white slab kitchen with a lit oak slatted feature panel over the hob, a glazed display cabinet, integrated oven tower and black steel-framed doors, LondonMarylebone Slab KitchenView this design → Hampstead sage green shaker kitchen with brass cup handles, a ceramic butler sink and a range cooker, LondonHampstead Shaker KitchenView this design → Chiswick cream high-gloss handleless U-shaped kitchen with a marble splashback, a window over the sink and integrated appliances, LondonChiswick Gloss KitchenView this design → St John's Wood Shaker Island Kitchen in London: sage green in-frame shaker doors with brass handles, a white marble island with breakfast bar, a range cooker and a chevron tiled floor; the marble island, range cooker and glazed wall units. Made to measure by Metro Home InteriorsSt John's Wood Shaker Island KitchenView this design → Blackheath Slab Island Kitchen in London: matt white slab base units with oak wall units, a black marble island and splashback, and a black fridge-freezer; the black marble island with timber stools under the window. Made to measure by Metro Home InteriorsBlackheath Slab Island KitchenView this design →
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Kitchen Layouts · Peninsula

Peninsula Kitchens in London

An L with a return: a run that comes away from the wall into the room, joined at one end, with seating on the room side. The island for a room that is not wide enough for one, and the layout that turns a kitchen towards the people in it.

Peninsula kitchen · In plan

The peninsula kitchen, in plan

Cabinetry runs along the back wall and turns the corner onto a short return; from that return a 900mm-deep peninsula extends into the room, joined to the wall at one end and open at the other. Inside the U it makes there is 1.2 metres of floor for the cook; outside it, the worktop overhangs by 300mm for stools. Because circulation is round one open end only, a peninsula works in a room 3.2 metres wide, where an island would need 3.6.

Room width 3.2m or more · Peninsula 900mm deep, 1.8 to 2.7m long, 300mm overhang on the room side · Inside the U 1.2m clear · Open end 900mm or more to the next wall

Peninsula kitchen · What to get right

Getting a peninsula kitchen right

Six things a designer checks before a peninsula kitchen is drawn.

01

One open end

A peninsula is walked round at one end only, so it needs a metre of clear floor there and nothing on the other three sides. That is why it fits a room 400mm narrower than an island needs.

02

The return

The peninsula joins the wall run at a corner. That corner is solved like any other, with a pull-out, and the worktop turns through it in one piece.

03

Seating on the room side

A 300mm overhang at 910mm takes stools at 650mm; a raised bar at 1050mm hides the kitchen side from the room. Either way, the peninsula faces the people.

04

What goes on it

Prep worktop and drawers as standard. A hob on the peninsula needs a downdraught extractor or a ceiling hood; a sink on it needs a drain that reaches the wall. Both are possible; neither is the default.

05

Inside the U

Twelve hundred millimetres between the back run and the peninsula. The cook has a workspace to themselves, and the rest of the room stays the room.

06

The view from the room

The room side of the peninsula is the most looked-at panel in the kitchen. It is finished as furniture, with the plinth lit, because it is the front of the kitchen.

Room sizes

Room sizes for a peninsula kitchen

What each size of room holds, and the clear floor it leaves. Your designer measures the room and adapts the layout to it.

RoomWhat fitsClear space
Minimum · 3.2m wide A back run with sink and hob, a short return and a 1.8m peninsula with two stools1.2m inside, 0.9m at the open end
Comfortable · 4.2m × 3.6m Most roomsA 4.2m back run with tall units together, a 2.4m peninsula with three stools and drawers on the kitchen side1.2m inside, 1.0m at the open end
Generous · 5.0m × 4.0m or more A long back run, a 2.7m peninsula with a hob and downdraught, four stools, and a dining table beyond it1.2m inside, 1.2m at the open end
Minimum · 3.2m wide
What fits A back run with sink and hob, a short return and a 1.8m peninsula with two stools
Clear space 1.2m inside, 0.9m at the open end
Comfortable · 4.2m × 3.6m Most rooms
What fits A 4.2m back run with tall units together, a 2.4m peninsula with three stools and drawers on the kitchen side
Clear space 1.2m inside, 1.0m at the open end
Generous · 5.0m × 4.0m or more
What fits A long back run, a 2.7m peninsula with a hob and downdraught, four stools, and a dining table beyond it
Clear space 1.2m inside, 1.2m at the open end

Base units 600mm deep with the worktop at 910mm; wall units 350mm deep from 1450mm; tall units 2150mm. A guide, not a rule: your designer measures the room and adapts the layout to it.

Peninsula kitchen · Where everything goes

The wall and the peninsula

The back wall does the work: sink under the window, dishwasher beside it, hob with worktop either side, and the oven tower and the fridge together at the far end. The peninsula does the rest. On the kitchen side it is drawers at 910mm; on the room side the worktop overhangs 300mm for two or three stools, and the panel below is finished as furniture because it is the side the room sees. The same worktop runs across the wall and the return, so the two read as one.

Back wall sink, dishwasher, hob, tall units together · Peninsula, kitchen side drawers, or the hob with a downdraught · Peninsula, room side 300mm overhang, stools at 650mm · Worktop 910mm throughout, or 1050mm on the bar side

Peninsula kitchen · Planning

Planning a peninsula kitchen

Five decisions, in the order your designer makes them.

01
Measure the width
Three point two metres from the back run to the far wall at the least. Under that, the peninsula becomes a breakfast bar on the wall run; over 3.6 metres, it could be an island.
02
Choose the return
Which end of the back run the peninsula comes from. Usually the end away from the door, so the open end faces the room and the route to the garden stays clear.
03
Decide what it carries
Prep top and drawers, a hob with a downdraught, or a sink. Services on a peninsula reach the wall through the return, which is simpler than under a floor.
04
Set the seating
Two stools per 1.8 metres, three per 2.4. A 300mm overhang at worktop height, or a raised bar if the kitchen side should be hidden.
05
Light it twice
Pendants over the peninsula for the people, LED under the wall units for the cook, on separate dimmers.
Peninsula kitchen layout, illustrated cutaway: an L-shaped run with a 2.4m peninsula returning into the room, seating on the room side and tall units at the far end
Peninsula kitchen · Built

The peninsula, built

The Hampstead is a peninsula in sage green shaker: a single run with a butler sink and a range cooker on the wall, and a breakfast peninsula returning from it with brass cup handles on the kitchen side and stools on the room side. It is a family kitchen in a room that would not take an island, and the peninsula is where the family sits.

A peninsula is the layout for the kitchen-diner that most London extensions become: the working kitchen on the back wall, the return facing the table, and one route round it to the garden doors. When the room is 3.6 metres wide or more, the same idea becomes an island with a walkway on every side; when the return is dropped, it is an L-shape with a table.

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Peninsula kitchen · FAQ

Questions about the peninsula layout.

A peninsula is joined to the wall run at one end; an island stands free. That one join changes the room it needs: an island must be walked around on every side, so the room is 3.6 metres wide at the least, while a peninsula is walked around at its open end only and fits a room 3.2 metres wide. Services also reach a peninsula through the return rather than under the floor.

A room 3.2 metres wide or more, measured from the back wall to the wall the peninsula points towards. That gives 600mm of units, 1.2 metres of floor inside the U, a 900mm-deep peninsula and a metre at its open end. The length of the peninsula follows the room: 1.8 metres seats two, 2.4 seats three.

Both are possible. A hob on the peninsula needs a downdraught extractor in the worktop or a ceiling hood above, and a sink needs a drain with enough fall to reach the wall through the return. Most of our peninsulas carry the prep worktop and the seating and leave the hob and the sink on the wall, because that keeps the cook facing the room while they work.

Allow 600mm per person: two stools at a 1.8-metre peninsula, three at 2.4, four at 2.7 or more. The overhang on the room side needs to be 300mm at worktop height for knees, and the stools sit at 650mm for a 910mm top. Where the top is raised to a 1050mm bar, the stools are taller and the kitchen side is hidden.

Towards the room, with its open end towards the door or the garden. The peninsula comes off the end of the back run that is furthest from the entrance, so the route past it stays clear and the cook inside the U faces the table. In a side-return extension that usually means the peninsula runs across the room from the original back wall.

It is the layout most kitchen-diners want. The back wall does the cooking, the peninsula draws a line between the kitchen and the dining space without closing it, and the seating on the room side puts family and guests at the edge of the kitchen rather than in it. Where the room is wide enough, an island does the same with more circulation.

A peninsula adds a return corner and a finished panel on the room side to an L-shaped kitchen, so it costs a little more than the L it grows from and less than an island, which needs services under the floor. Our peninsula kitchens start from £6,900, delivered and fitted, with most between £6,900 and £9,800. Prices include VAT, delivery and installation by our own fitters; worktops, appliances, sink and tap are quoted separately. A design visit gives you a fixed written price for your room.

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