Island

There's not really very much to say about the island.  I'll just post a bunch of photos and you can figure it out. The top is 2 book-matched slabs of cherry with an extra strip up the middle (to make it wide enough) from the Keith Hendee stash of cherry wood. (No, Keith, you can't have it back).  The blue color was matched from cobalt blue Fiesta Ware.  Power was run in a conduit under the slab (actually planned and done from the beginning). The drawer pulls are from our old cabinets.

The last thing to be done was laying the cork floor and setting the base trim. This is an engineered flooring product where the "planks" click together and the whole thing floats as a unit.  Cork is a totally renewable resource.  The cork is harvested every 7 years from trees on plantations, not harming the trees at all.  It has been used on floors for a very long time and lines up wonderfully with our "green" intentions as well as our design sense here where tradition meets modern meets organic.

So, that's pretty much it.  Now we can get the rest of our furniture out of storage.  We will need to figure out what works and what doesn't.  But already this space feels wonderful.  The room is a very nice size, it is very comfortable, and the views out all those windows are fabulous.  Yesterday an appraiser was out to look at our property and when she came in, she said "Should we call this the great room?".  Oh, ya, I think it is!