I LOVE the smell of fresh concrete in the morning!
not actually the freshly poured. but the freshly curing.
With most of the kitchen taking a very square and symmetrical shape, which is exaggerated in the sharp angles of a large monolithic slab in the center, the broken piece of granite slab set into the one side of the island helped to offset this a little. while concrete emulates a natural material quite well, i had purposely chosen a darker grey dye, and grey paint, and polished stainless steel for most of the hardware. It gives the kitchen the feel of a cold stark clinical utility. But we also recognized the need to offset this.
We did this with the eventual wooden wall treatment, and by including a slab of granite that has factory square edges on 3 sides to compliment the edges of the island, but has a broken, diminishing edge facing to the center. It isn't dramatic, but it really does help to take a little of the edge off of the kitchen as a whole.
Granite being denser is also a better surface to cut and work on for food prep, and is resistant to one of concretes little enemies- lemon/lime juice!
Sills!
Stovetop knockout slab.
Since the woodwall treatment was to come out from the exterior block wall enough to cover electrical boxes, i thought i would hide a little juvenile artwork there. My girlfriend's (and co-conspirator's) initials plus mine!
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