Hey all,
We decide last year to do some updating of our old kitchen. The cabinets are maple with a light stain and since they’re in good condition we chose to paint them and I built new drawers with Blum tandem slides to replace the old ones. The solid surface counters are in good shape and the color is not too bad so we kept that too. My wife made that call, she said considering my track record if I start to remove the old counters I’ll keep right on going and tear the whole kitchen out. Replacing the old awkward island was a little more involved. I took the island out and replaced it with a peninsula that has a Siberian elm countertop.
Original cabinets
A few fresh coats of paint
Old island
New peninsula going in
Painted and ready for the new countertop
A friend of mine milled this Siberian elm log and he just happened to sawed right through the middle of a pruning knot which I made a centerpiece of the top.
Milling the breadboard ends
Finished and installed. I filed all the knots and cracks with West systems epoxy and also used it as a sealcoat. The topcoats are minwax satin poly. That’s a pop up outlet towards the end of the top, we use it all the time. Overall I spent almost a year from when we started painting to final completion. Between work, visiting our kids and general busyness of life it was hard to find a lot of time to work on it.
Thanks for taking a look!
Mike
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