Recommendation Kitchen Bar Top Width
Counter top height is my preference.
Kitchen bar top width. How wide should a kitchen island be. In the same way opening the stove or refrigerator door shouldnt hit your door or block the entrance. The standard overhang for kitchen island countertops is 12 inches.
The standards say each person needs 24 inches 61cm width and 12 inches 30cm depth to eat comfortably. I have bar height in my kitchen and while I enjoy it it chops my kitchen up I feel. So widely accepted is this standard is that base cabinet manufacturers build all their cabinets to a height of 34 12 inches assuming an adequate toe kick and countertop thickness will be 1 12 inches.
Base cabinet width is the great variable and each cabinet tends to be aimed toward certain uses. The Kitchen Triangle Layout for Smooth Workflow. The minimum bar top thickness is 1 34-inches utilizing a flat grain wood.
Most suppliers carry lengths up to 8 ft but a few offer 12-ft. Building code states that the minimum width for entrances is 32 inches. This standard kitchen slab width is so common that many suppliers sell countertops by the linear foot which means per foot of length on a 25-inch wide countertop.
Bottom of pendant light. 42 with a sink. Personally I think 12 inches is a little thin.
A raised bar should be between 42 to 48 inches high. To almost 7 in. Thirty-six inches is a recommended standard height for a kitchen island.