Leonard Williamson
Most breakfast bars are usually incorporated into a kitchen island or peninsular and are complemented with some elegant bar stools or chairs, to finish it off and to give a comfy & inviting place to sit. This overhang is needed to be able to get chairs and your legs underneath it, to be able to sit comfortably.
The maximum overhang you can have with a solid surface worktop, like quartz, and with no support underneath it is 300mm.
The example below shows a breakfast bar with the worktop supported on the ends with 2 base units. If you decided to have a deeper space under the breakfast bar, then this would be an ideal way of creating it. The smallest width an island with breakfast bar seating for 2 people can be, is between 1000mm & 1200mm wide.
With regards to the depth of the island, there is no set size here but it is worth thinking about the worktop that you are going to have on the island/breakfast bar. Our solid surface supplier’s jumbo pieces of quartz are a maximum of 3.2m long x 1.4m deep, so there is plenty of scope there to design a bigger island.
Examples of our solid wood worktops can be found here.
When using a square edged laminate worktop on an island then you will be limited to depths of 640mm, 680mm & 940mm, as you will need to choose one of the breakfast bar/island worktops, as these are edged on all 4 sides.
A bar stool measures between 711mm – 762mm from floor to seat. Many of our customers buy their breakfast bar stools from Atlantic Shopping.
Have a look at our Pinterest board to get some inspiration on different bar & counter stool designs Take a look at some of our real customer kitchens, video reviews as well as advice in our mobile app.
