So it sounded simple enough. An island with a butcher block top, 1 open shelf, and a skirt to hide the casters. First, find a top. Saw an add on CL and called and got a 2' x 7' maple top for 50 bucks. As I'm asking the guy who is selling it where I have to go to pick it up, he tells me the town I live in (900 people in the middle of nowhere Indiana), so I ask him the address, he tells me, and I look out the window and ask him if he's standing in his driveway, and he says yes, how did you know. I went and picked it up in my golf cart. So far so good. Found some boards that looked promising, cleaned them up, dressed 'em, made the legs, base and skirt, and dry fit them and called the boss for approval. Well, the skirt has got to go. "How am I going to lock the casters in place??" Locking casters - huh, that's new. So off comes the skirt.
Which led to this: a nice set of benchtop horses.
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On with the build. Pretty un-eventful.
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In use for a few weeks and I get asked if a slide out garbage can will fit on the end of the island. Low and behold, I have a 1/4" to spare. Naturally, it needs to be enclosed.
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Boy, I'm glad that's over with. I hate remodeling projects. But wait...........
Since there's all that room on the other side of the can enclosure, can't there be another shelf there???
Why, of course there can.
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Soooo, I think I'm done. Not sure, of course. All that's left is a piece of trim to hide the end grain of the plywood enclosure of the can. But i'm going to put that off until the LOML notice's, and asks for it. Then I can confirm I'm finished with the island. Maybe.
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Sounds very familiar as I also have had to "adjust" things AFTER everything was agreed upon before the build
