1st thing to evaluate is whether it will be used as a computer or sitdown tech center by members of your household . it is larger than most desks....note below.... even smaller areas yet use of a proper chair and screen activities occurring.... I would spend on a comfortable chair w back, first if I thought there would be use in that regard . there's space a-plenty.....have you ruled out actual sit down purposeful activities there?

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I think just simplify it. Remove the grape leaf doodad from the top, probably nix the wine rack and pigeonholes at the same time, and install simple shelves for... cookbooks, framed photos, a few nice objects.

I wouldn't put lights in the glass cabs unless you put something really beautiful in there. Margaritas are great but no need to light the glasses like an art gallery :)

I agree with @herbflavor It looks like there are charging cords plugged in so those outlets are getting some use. Looks like counter stools at island. Can you get a matching chair for desk? For display, try putting that nice black pot that sitting on black desk counter up in the space above wine bottle storage. - that’s the start of a nicely curated display. I might stick wine glasses in one of the closed cupboards above desk & find more pots to display in the glass door cupboards. Besides the black pottery I see a couple of other nice pots in your kitchen so it appears those appeal to you & they’d make a great display in the white cabs. Your question about desk BS - yes, I’d add the same as you have in perimeter of kitchen. I don’t think I’d remove the short piece along back of desk because it creates a nice straight line across the entire piece. Removing it & adding the tile there in the lower space across desk will I think just draw attention to the height difference of the desk & cabinets on each side.

What I would do instead of using it for an office desk I would make it a beverage station like a little beverage refrigerator down below whatever you want cold in there and I would make it a coffee station RT station whatever you drink it's it's odd that it's a little office with the place where you put wine bottles through that's what I would do I wouldn't worry about the tile unless you're not going to have landline phones otherwise if you're not going to have the landline phones you could get tile to match and feel that part in

If you put lights in it I would only do display something very beautiful that you really love otherwise frosted glass with lovely

And if you can't for the frosted glass you could get frosted glass film and apply it to it

Thanks everyone! Okay…so it will not be a functioning desk which is why I don’t have a full chair. Plus the chair sticks out in the walkway. I put the little be chairs chair there to fill the hole but only my 12 year old pulls it out to use the desk from time to time. We have bar around the corner and also have a coffee area. So it’s there for show essentially. I like the idea of getting rid of the grapes, wine rack and mail slots and doing shelves. Thanks for agreeing with me on NOT lighting the glass cabinets (husband wanted that). The big black vase was up in the alcove but didn’t find its way back up there yet after Xmas. Can a few more people weigh in on backsplash or no backsplash? I was thinking a few small framed pictures could go across the wall. I’ll share a pic of an idea. Maybe photographs or paintings but in the right color scheme for the room. But if we go backsplash then not needed. I’m just torn on backsplash in this space. And then that’s a lot of backsplash in the room. Obviously I’d space the photos appropriately and have pictures that work in the space. But how do people like the idea of artwork there?

I mean, on the one hand no backsplash makes sense because no cooking or liquids there... on the other hand, tile pretty

I personally think art would look cluttered there, and would not fill the wall space just for the sake of filling it. Like, it's hung too low for viewing from standing/walking past. But this is just a matter of taste.

Maybe some shallow baskets or valet trays to corral the devices while charging?

I agree with @rebasheba about tile would be pretty. Art work is meh for me - clutter. The tile would unify this space with the kitchen. As I said, I'd leave the short splash at desk surface to keep the straight line across top for tile. I do understand that a chair with back would stick out more so the backless bench makes sense. I'd paint the wood sides either white or black to tie in with cabs / hardware. Unless of course the bench is exact match as is for counter stools which we can't see. I do like the black pot at top shelf but it needs company & seeing it up there I see it's too tall with the grape decorative piece there. As someone already suggested, that piece should come off if it won't damage the sides - might need some bit of detail work to cover up where it is attached. As happyleg suggested, applying a frosted film to inside of glass doors might work as an alternative to changing display from glasses to pottery.

Remove the grapevines, wine, mail slots. Add one shelf. Put cookbooks on the bottom and that big black urn and one other black piece on the top shelf. They do a nice job of relating to your black range hood.

Do not put splash here, do not cram photos, or add lights here. The less attention to call to this area the better. You chose to not redo this, which seems perfectly fine, so you need to just let this be.

I'd paint the wood on the bench the same color blue as the island so it looks intentional.

You can hang out there if you want it looks good or you can get some tile replacements to fix that and yes the shelves would be nice if you put like cookbooks or bowls or something there or a teapot that could even be a prep area and like a beverage bar where it's coffee and cold drinks and a little stew under it in case you want to sit there and prep food and you don't want to stand