Design Expertise · Binova Studio Short Hills
Kitchen island design in New Jersey. Binova Studio Short Hills creates stunning Italian kitchen islands — waterfall stone, integrated seating, and prep station configurations.
Schedule a Design MeetingAt Binova Studio Short Hills, our collections are sourced directly from Italy's most respected kitchen manufacturers. Each design goes through rigorous quality control and is shipped directly to our Short Hills, NJ showroom — where you can see and touch every finish, every detail, before committing to a single decision.
Our certified designers specialize in translating the latest Italian design trends into fully realized kitchen environments for New Jersey homes. From initial concept through final installation, you have one dedicated design team guiding your project.
An island earns its place through clearances, not size. The working aisle between island and perimeter should be at least 42 inches — 48 where two cooks pass — and seating requires roughly 24 inches of width per person with 15 inches of knee overhang. If the room cannot give an island those numbers plus a meaningful work surface, a peninsula or a widened run is usually the better design, and an honest designer will say so.
The next decisions are functional. A cooktop island needs ventilation — a ceiling-integrated extractor or downdraft system — and dedicated power; a sink island needs supply and drainage planned before flooring. Single-level islands read as one architectural volume and suit gres or stone waterfall ends; split-level islands separate prep from dining but visually divide the piece. Binova's island compositions treat the volume as furniture: storage on every face, panel-matched sides, and tops in porcelain gres that shrug off heat and knives.
Several of the seven full-scale kitchens in our Short Hills showroom are built around islands of different scales — the fastest way to know what 42 versus 48 inches of clearance actually feels like is to stand in it.
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