Our modern ideas for kitchen islands cover rooms of all sizes,br and can make you think differently about how your design works.br br An island can place additional storage andbr plan just where you need it for starters.br A long island may become the main workstation, housing sink, and hob, too,br with the trend for most of the kitchen to vanish behind high pantry-style doors.br br See: New ideas forbr kitchens-contemporary cooking and entertainment designsbr br And while the double galley kitchen is still the most ergonomic kitchen layout, with its two parallelbr rows of work space, an island will help build this set up in an open plan space.br It will be a more sociable spacebr than the island and the enclosed kitchen.