Is this slab worth shortening my island for?
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Comments (11)Lindy is right, these ARE total works of art! Love your choices, Kelly! I too can't wait to see them installed. I hope you will share photos soon.... I'm dying (okay, not really... but you know what I mean... LOL) to see some sneak peaks of your house. Hint, hint, hint!!...See MoreSlab not big enough for island? Seams?
Comments (14)Hi Friends! Yes, I did sell that house with the white kitchen. It was a bit of a shock to me too that I had to leave it, but we had an offer we couldn't refuse. My new (old) house is in the planning stages for a remodel. I wish I could re-create that kitchen but I think every home has it's own "story". That house, when I first saw it, had that big room as a perfect solution for it's layout. My new house doesn't have that layout (and we don't have the budget for a total teardown and rebuild), so I'm working with what I have :) I like the idea of a different material at the end, like wood or SS as Hoboken did. I am just not sure that the white colors seam as well as some of the other slabs. Beagles' is perfection but I am worried I won't have the exact same result. I saw a recent post by kam(?) that had a seam she didn't like and she had to re-do....that got me worried. Bee: Speaking of new kitchens and moving, I saw your drama over the white grout vs the gray grout and laughed. I still love that tile and am seriously considering it for one of our bathrooms. It's just so wonderful and I love your new kitchen too!...See MorePrep sink in island...is it worth it?
Comments (21)I agree the answer to *your* question depends on *your* layout. That said, on the advice of these fine folk here I too put in a prep sink and I can scarcely believe I ever wondered about it. It is so much better than sliced bread I cannot even begin to explain.... I think of it as a double sink with a lot of space, elbow-room, in between. And if there are to be multiple cooks, be sure there is adequate space for two to work at the sink at the same time. Ours is a little tight but it's fine; but I hadn't considered that in advance. I only regret not making one of the sinks even larger! We do vegetables and fruit here and I just don't think it is possible to get enough sink space. My 24" SS and 36" (I think; can't remember) "super single" are only barely enough.... In short, depends on your kitchen and cooking style but for this heavy prepper with lots of cleanup as well (and insufficient helpers!), two is enormously appreciated....See MoreJoing butcher block counter slabs to make wide island
Comments (19)I have teak countertops in my kitchen. Done out of 8/4 planks, edge glued. I used biscuits and West System epoxy. I wiped the plank edges down with acetone just prior to assembly. The run of countertop as a whole is 30" deep by roughly 18' long, it's two separate pieces that overlap on the ends, one about 12' long, the other about 6' long. The overlap is because one countertop is a couple inches lower than the other one. I have an under mount kitchen sink, so the end grain of the planks is exposed to water at the sink. Zero damage. Been in for almost 20 years. No warping, lifting, curling, no separation at all on the glue lines. Finished with mineral oil. The oil holds up well, I try to renew the oil once or maybe twice a year, though I have gone several years without renewing it. I have another teak end-grain butcher block cutting surface as a kitchen island end cap. Roughly 4' square with one corner clipped on a 45, and 5" or so thick. The individual blocks are about 3-1/2" by 2" and assembled in a running bond pattern. Same assembly; I wiped the blocks down with acetone, then epoxied. No biscuits on that one. We do cut on it some, not a lot, but the cutting surface has held up perfectly. On the side or edge of the block, there's one break on a glue line, where the grain orientation of the two blocks don't remotely match up due to one of the blocks having wild running grain. The break isn't noticeable to the eye, but you can feel it when you run your fingertip along the edge. There's maybe a 1/32" lippage at that joint. Just enough to catch a fingernail on if you run it along the side of the slab. I've never bothered to sand it flush. Great material for a countertop. Been used and abused in a heavily used kitchen, and they still look pretty darn bueno....See MoreVertise
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