Kitchen island without gas hob/sink

[ComfortFoodCorner]

Hi, After lots of thoughts, we have decided to leave the island free and move the gas hob and sink to the counters. Ours is a not too big/small open plan living area, so thought of using this island as dining area, and NOT to use an additional dining table. We are just 3 members in the family, and we rarely have friends over for dining. So an additional dining table is not necessary for us.

We all 3 hate sitting on a barstool or high chair. My daughter would be using this island for doing her homeworks which I can monitor while chopping vegetables or prepping for dinner. So the island cannot be as low as a dining table then it won't be good as general work surface. Having a small fold on the island, higher towards the kitchen, and lower towards the living room is an option. But wonder if there is any other way to achieve this. We are going for Quartz surface, wonder it might get too expensive
for this folding and joining.

Some additional info: the island will have cupboards too where I would keep the plates, mugs, cups, cutleries etc, but I imagine the surface would be extended little further for accommodate seating. We make sure the extension will be in such a way that, we would be able to sit at the side of the island too, so we see each others faces, and not just sitting in a line.

Kindly share if you have any ideas or thoughts about this design...

My friend has a smaller version of something like this - it looks lovely!!

I'd just have the end third lower to accommodate three chairs around it, or if that makes it too long in an L shape around a corner so you aren't in a row either. You could have the dining part as a contrasting material like wood, but I don't think it would be that much more expensive- a few extra cuts and a vertical area.
But are you really never going to have people to entertain?

I bit like @Africa2go suggested I previously had a kitchen that had a 'step down' island table, so you could use normal chairs rather than bar stools. We got the kitchen fitter to build it and used the same material as the taller part of the work top, with some legs at the end to support it. It worked surprisingly well- I found I'd just sit at a chair at the dining table end to prep vegetables, etc, and you still get the space saving benefit of this layout. If you search 'island dining table' on Pinterest you'll get lots of images to inspire you! You can also get adjustable height dining tables, which you could use instead, but from research they seem to be expensive and/or fiddly.

Thank you for the replies. I have this dining table already.. It's 4 feet and have 6 chairs.. It's a lovely table, but we hardly used it as it was in the other room. Initially we thought of having both the island and the dining table, but thought the living area will look cluttered too much. But seeing @Africa2go picture, in wonder if I just place the table next to the take island and would that be the way to go? The kitchen will be a white/cream area, and white quartz top, not sure if the chocolate brown table would stand out and put down the beauty of the island.

@Changingwiththetimes

I'd just have the end third lower to accommodate three chairs around it, or if that makes it too long in an L shape around a corner so you aren't in a row either. You could have the dining part as a contrasting material like wood, but I don't think it would be that much more expensive- a few extra cuts and a vertical area. But are you really never going to have people to entertain?

@Changingwiththetimes, reading your comment I kept thinking myself, will I never have guests? Haha. I haven't much in the past few years, but as my daughter growing up, she might want to bring her friends, and I might end up making up new friends. So yes, I will need to think futuristically. Thank you for asking that question. :)

In this case, I wonder, instead of doing step-down, I can make the entire island as a dining table Island. May be not as low as dining table, and not as high as counter top. May be somewhere in the middle..I measured. Dining table is 30 inches, and kitchen counters are 36 inches. May be I will get the island as 33 inches, so I can do things on the island sitting down on the chair.... The cupboards has to be well "inside" the island, so we get legroom while dining.