Until they invent or rather prefect Wi-Fi electric your kinda stuck with the beam or column or pole. If you get us an image we may have something creative to input.

Trench the slab. It's done all the time.

Can you trench the slab with radiant heat? Thanks for your response

They have wi-fi electric. It's called lightning. Ha!
You can't cut the floor with out damaging the radiant heat.

Thanks for all of your help! Anybody have any ideas on just using 1 column for the electric without it looking off balance? We really want to get rid of at least one column. Thx!

The radiant heat is throughout the entire bottom floor. Bummer!

Here are some pictures of our current island. Our hope is to completely take it out and have an island built using the cabinet/color that you see in image 1. We are replacing the counters throughout the kitchen and possible painting the cabinets on the exterior walls but have not decided yet. Looking forward to some ideas! Thank you :)

Now that I see it, you do have an option to get electrical to the island with out the fake poles but it won't be cheap. You can drill a hole under the cabinet completely through the slab and run a conduit under the slab to the outside wall of your house and go up the outside wall. If you have a phone line you will have to run those separately and it will be even more expensive.

That does sound expensive! Thanks for your idea!

You seem to have electricity in the current arrangement. If any of the future island cabinetry overlaps the current footprint, that I wonder why the existing wiring is not used. Am I misinterpreting your photos?

Yes the new island will go over the existing footprint. but we would like to get rid of the beams and the electricity comes thru one of the beams. Does that make sense? Thx!

You are just going to have to find a way to make the beams beautiful and an architectural statement. We all need to get creative here.

Thoughts:

Putting in a hollow horizontal beam about a foot or so down from the ceiling between the beams and hanging pendant lights from it then using the upper portion of the beam for decorative storage or a stained glass window.

Or affixing a pot rack to it.

Making a more attractive beam a bit larger with cubby storage.

Making an even larger beam and storing your electrical appliances on shelves (with doors) pre-plugged and ready to go you just need to put it on the counter.

Affixing shutters to them with a huge sign that says "Kitchen is closed and clean. You dirty it you clean it".

Creating an lit arch over the island.

Covering the beams in the same tile as the backsplash above the counter then creating storage boxes above that line.

Since you have counters as well, you strictly do not need electricity to the island. I would remove both beams and no have outlets, but i would try lucidos previous idea before doing that

Per NEC codes(for many years now) ALL islands are required to have electrical outlets. Trenching under the slab isn't that difficult or that expensice if you re close enough to an exterior wall. Call one 0f the larger local electrical firms that also does commercial and have them come out and give you quote.

Just wanted to thank everyone for their help!

I too have the same concern; I removed 2 decorative columns to install new countertops, to find out 1 column has wires running through coupled with a slab. If I trench under my slab, how do preserve my tile floor??? I do not have any extra tiles as it is > 9 years old