Concrete Kitchen Platform

Are kitchen canisters yet cool? Whether they are or not, I accept a hand-me-down laid nosotros received 7 years ago, when nosotros got married. I decided my kitchen powerfulness expect a footling cooler if I introduced some concrete to the mix.

I dear the stance of concrete inward a kitchen. Not entirely does it give you lot a modern/ industrial vibe, it likewise is real oestrus tolerate together with tin withstand hot pans together with cookie sheets. You originally saw these platforms when I shared my Modern Christmas Tablescape amongst you lot guys. 

The whole procedure was real easy. I created forms from melamine, simply similar I did amongst my concrete countertop. This fourth dimension was fifty-fifty easier since I didn't accept whatever sink openings to worry about. I made a brace of dissimilar sized slabs, but I ultimately went amongst the smaller, 14" x 9" x 2". 

I sealed the seams of the forms amongst silicone caulk, mixed together with poured the cement, together with allow it cure. Unlike a countertop, a footling kitchen platform doesn't quest to endure extremely hard, hence no quest to hold off a week.  After 24 hours I removed the forms together with allowed the slabs to buy the farm on to dry out for some other brace of days.

For the legs, I flora a fighting slice of pine,approximately 1" yesteryear 3/4" together with cutting four, 1.5" rectangles. 

The conception was to attach the legs amongst adhesive, but I wanted to brand certain they weren't going anywhere. To increase the surface surface area together with allow to a greater extent than adhesive betwixt the leg together with the concrete, I drilled a brace modest holes inward 1 halt of each leg. I together with then squirted on some *Gorilla Epoxy and lined upwards a leg inward each corner.

The adjacent solar daytime I placed my canisters together with boom. I flake to a greater extent than kitchen coolness.

I'm earthworks the bare concrete together with raw woods look! If you lot were worried nigh stains, I would recommend sealing both the concrete together with woods legs.

I'm non certain if they are "cool" or not, but I definitely intend my kitchen canisters looks ameliorate sitting on a pretty novel platform.

 Have I mentioned how inexpensive concrete is? Since I already had the melamine, caulk together with wood, this whole projection toll me around $3. If you lot don't accept scraps laying around, I would advise picking upwards a slice of laminated shelving (a.k.a. melamine) together with a 1" woods dowel from the hardware store. Regardless, it volition endure an inexpensive little project. What would you lot role yours for? Hot dishes? Centerpiece? 

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