This is not a matter of taste but of space. Here is what each shape asks of the room, and what it gives back.
2026-09-14
The catalogue comes down to four shapes, and every combination in it — L-shaped with an island, single-run with a peninsula, U-shaped with a peninsula — is an assembly of those. Choosing starts with measuring what you have.
Everything sits along one wall. It is the most compact shape and the cheapest for a given amount of storage, because there is no corner to solve and no worktop joint to make. It suits a narrow room, or a kitchen open onto a living room you would rather not partition. Its limit is the work triangle: sink, hob and fridge end up in a line, and you walk the length of the wall for every task.
The most common shape, and the most forgiving. It brings the sink closer to the hob, frees the middle of the room, and the corner is handled with a corner unit. It is also the shape that best accepts an island later: the catalogue holds several, including a 5.00 × 4.00 m kitchen with a 2.60 × 1.05 m island.
The most worktop and storage for a given floor area, everything within reach without moving. In exchange it closes the room in: allow at least two metres between the two arms so that two people can pass.
An island is a free-standing block reachable from every side; a peninsula is an island attached on one side to the rest of the layout. The difference is not aesthetic, it is metric: an island needs a walkway on all four faces, a peninsula on three. In a room too narrow for an island, a peninsula does the same job — extra worktop, a bar, a division between kitchen and living room.
The custom form asks for measurements wall by wall, not one overall size: a return has neither the length, nor necessarily the height or depth, of the first wall — and the workshop cuts wall by wall.
