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A multi-purpose Kitchen Island
This client had both an interesting and a challenging requirement for a movable kitchen island.
He wanted to accomplish the following:
- Have a granite surface for sintering chocolate and other food
preparation.
- Make it movable so that he could roll it out into an entertainment
area for serving. Thus the design needed to appear both balanced
and pleasing from all sides. Have lockable casters with rubber wheels.
(note: he was astute enough to know that anything but rubber would
risk marring his hardwood floors )
- The style needed to blend in with his modern maple kitchen
- Storage for books and pots on one side and an enclosed liquor cabinet with room for glassware on the other side.
We chose to use a combination of Maple and Curly Maple for the wood. The finish was two coats of shellac to bring out the beautiful grain and then 6 hand rubbed coats of water clear acrylic to provide protection without darkening the Maple. The client selected "Waterfall glass" for the doors and sides.
The design for this originally called for the sides of the liquor cabinet to be solid Maple. As I was doing the first test assembly, Betsy walked in to take a look. Her first thought was "have you considered using glass of the sides? It would make it look even lighter". I ran the concept by the client and he liked the idea. Since the piece was already 90% shaped, this change required making hand shaped, very small, mullions to hold the glass on each side along with a new method of hinging the doors. The results justified all of the extra work.
You can click on any image to see a larger version
Views of the island from the front, in the kitchen and
then rolled into another room. |
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One special board was reserved for the drawer front |
A close up the of the curly Maple and "waterfall" glass |
The faces of the legs were sawn so that the ray fleck grain that most never see in Maple was exposed. You can also see the doweled construction of the glass doors. |
