Kitchen Island

This was my first woodworking project, completed last summer for my wife. The top is a solid birch butcher block piece from Menards and the rest of the carcass is all pine. The drawers are made out of 1/2" and 1/4" plywood.

It’s on 4 casters, has a paper towel holder, a stainless steel bowl in the top for scraps, and a drawer with slots to hold cookie sheets and pans. The drawer slides in the middle are all soft close.

Since it was my first project I had very limited knowledge on how to assemble everything, and also a limited set of tools. I used pocket screws for joinery, and a circular saw to cut all of the pieces. A router was used to add a nice profile on the drawer/door faces and a jigsaw was used to cut the hole in the top to hold the bowl.