We have almost finished our remodel by taking out the wall between the kitchen and family room and extending one arm of our U shaped kitchen about 2 feet in to the family room. Our peninsula is about 38" deep in to the family room and 100" long. We have a 30" slide in range, drawers and cabinets on the kitchen side of the peninsula. On the family room side, a 12" deep open space for a 42" flat screen TV and a 12" deep cabinet and drawer back up to the range. There is a regular depth cabinet and drawer on the left side that houses cable box, DVD, etc. I keep the TV/cable remotes in the 12" deep drawer next to the TV and cookbooks in the 12" deep cabinet.

If it faced our dinette, I would probably use it for serving utensils and things I do not use very often.

It depends on what you are going to store there and what kind of cabinets you plan on getting. For example, with face frame cabinets, if you order 12-inch cabinets, you'll only have about 10 inches of usable space.

I am very space constrained in my 9 x 10 kitchen and I have an equally small dining room adjoining the kitchen. I originally planned on putting in 10 inch cabinets, which would have been an upcharge from the cabinet company. Instead, I opted for 12 inch peninsula cabinets for a 93 inch run and I'm now very happy I did so. I am able to store liquor, several appliances that I don't want on the countertop (Kitchen Aid mixer, small & large Cuisinart, blender), and two sets of dishes.

Hope this helps.

We have an 8 inch depth cab that we use to store all of our coffee cups, travel mugs, sugar bowl, creamer, coffee beans, teapot, etc. I have two rows of mugs on a shelf. Love having it. Maybe you would want to use the space for things that are easy to grab from the dinette? like items to set the table? I would think about how you would use it, then measure your items to see if you could fit them in the usable space of a 9" cab - but I say go for it!!

We have a penninsula that faces into the dining area and it has 21" deep cabinets on one side and 11" deep on the other. (the 11's were not intentional). I love the extra space for stuff like boardgames/magazines/etc. Stuff that often doesn't have a home of it's own but a lot of that wouldn't have fit well if we went less than 11".

We have 12" on the back side of our raised bar peninsula. I'm looking forward to storing small appliances on the bottom shelf. On the other shelves I'll store all the tomatoes, applesauce, etc. that I can . . . as well as other "stock up" groceries.

liquor bottles and other drinks, vases, glasses, mugs, condiments that you use frequently, cookbooks (if they aren't larger than an 8x10), smaller appliances - coffee pot & grinder.

A mini-office/ craft spot - baskets with stamps, envelopes, sewing items, pens, pencils tape etc.

- I can think of lots of things!