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Google review — pulled in at launch
Customer nameNeighborhood
Islands & seating
Kitchen Islands in Dallas, TX
Adding or enlarging an island is the change that most alters how a kitchen is used — and it involves more structural, electrical and plumbing work than most people expect.
Will an island actually fit?
This is the question to settle before anything else, and it's decided by clearances rather than by the size of the room.
You want roughly 1 metre (about 42 inches) of clear walkway on every side of an island that gets worked at, and closer to 1.2m on the side where a dishwasher or oven door opens into the gap. Fall below that and you get a kitchen where two people can't pass each other, which is worse than having no island at all.
As a rough rule, a room needs to be about 3.6m wide before a working island makes sense. Narrower than that and a peninsula or a longer run of counter will serve you better — and we'll tell you so rather than sell you an island that doesn't fit.
What goes into an island
Islands range from a simple block of storage to the busiest part of the kitchen:
- Seating — allow 600mm of width per seat and 380mm of knee depth under the overhang. An overhang past about 300mm needs steel or corbel support.
- Prep sink — needs supply and drain routed to the island, which in a slab-on-grade house means cutting and re-pouring the slab.
- Cooktop and downdraft or ceiling extraction — needs gas or a heavy electrical circuit plus a genuine ventilation solution.
- Power — outlets are required on islands by code. Where they go is a design decision: in the side panel, in a pop-up, or under the overhang.
- Storage — deep pan drawers on the working side, and shallow or open shelving on the seating side.
- Waterfall ends — stone turned down to the floor, with veining matched across the mitre.
Request a free estimate
Tell us about the project and we'll come out to Dallas to measure.
What it costs to add one
The cabinetry and stone are usually the smaller half of the cost. What you're really paying for is getting services to the middle of the room.
| Scope | Typical range | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Island cabinetry and countertop only | $5,000 – $11,000 | No plumbing or gas; power run from an adjacent wall |
| Island with prep sink | $11,000 – $18,000 | Slab cut, drain and supply routed, re-pour and floor make-good |
| Island with cooktop and extraction | $18,000+ | Gas or heavy circuit, ducted ventilation, ceiling work |
Open-plan and wall removal
Islands and open-plan go together, because the island is usually what replaces the wall you've just taken out. If that's your project, the sequence matters:
- We establish whether the wall is load-bearing before anything is priced — from the framing direction, the span and where the roof loads land.
- If it is, an engineer specifies the beam and the posts, and that gets permitted.
- Anything living in that wall — plumbing stacks, HVAC ducts, electrical runs — has to be rerouted. This is the part that most often changes the budget.
- Ceiling and floor make-good across the old wall line needs planning, or you end up with a visible scar exactly where the eye lands.
Recent work
Recent kitchen islands projects
How we work
One team, five steps, no surprises
Most remodels go wrong in the gaps — between the drawing and the build, between one trade leaving and the next arriving. We run design and construction under one contract so there are no gaps to fall into.
Free consultation
01
Free consultation
We come to your home, measure, and talk through what's working and what isn't. No charge, no obligation.
Design & selections
02
Design & selections
Layout drawings, 3D views and a materials list, so you see the finished room before you commit.
Fixed-price proposal
03
Fixed-price proposal
A line-item scope and a written schedule. You know the number before anything is torn out.
Build
04
Build
One crew, one project manager, a locked schedule and daily site clean-down.
Walkthrough
05
Walkthrough
We walk the finished space together, list anything that isn't right, and fix it before you pay the balance.
Where we work
Kitchen islands across Dallas–Fort Worth
We work throughout Dallas and the wider Dallas–Fort Worth area. Below is where we run projects most often — call us if your neighborhood isn't listed.
Carrollton
Farmers Branch
Garland
Irving
Mesquite
Rowlett
Rockwall
Allen
McKinney
Lewisville
Grand Prairie
Arlington
Bluffview
Dallas County
Reviews
What Dallas homeowners say
Every review below is a real Google review from a completed project.
★★★★★
Google review — pulled in at launch
Customer nameNeighborhood
★★★★★
Google review — pulled in at launch
Customer nameNeighborhood
Questions
Frequently asked questions
About 1m of clear walkway on every working side, and 1.2m where a dishwasher or oven door swings into the space. We measure this at the design stage and will tell you plainly if the room won't take one — a too-tight island is the single most common regret in kitchen layouts.
Usually yes, but in a slab-on-grade house it means cutting the slab to run the drain, then re-pouring and making good the floor. It's a real project rather than a plumbing call-out. We'll price it honestly and tell you whether it's worth doing in your specific layout.
Standard counter height (about 900mm) for a working island, which lets you use standard counter stools and keeps the stone in one plane. A raised bar section at 1070mm hides the working surface from the living area, which some people want and others find dated. Two levels cost more and reduce usable prep space.
Past about 300mm of unsupported overhang, yes — steel flat bar set into the cabinetry, or corbels if the look suits. Stone is strong but brittle, and an unsupported overhang with someone leaning on it is how countertops crack.