Kitchen Island

After quite a bit of planning, I started on the kitchen island. It would be made of bamboo and slate. There were many design iterations on every aspect of material finish and volume massing. We decided to offset the back to make it into a set of discrete boxes with slate planes dividing them.
The cardboard mock-up.

Back cabinets mounted. These boxes are made from bamboo ply and have no sub-boxes. The structure is entirely exposed. No room for covering up mistakes with base molding, side panels, or other things. Glass shelves are inside.

Base cabinets being installed. This base will have a flip door for the microwave. This mandated no sub-box and no trim side panels. The side panel is the structure of the box and was fun to build since it had to be scribed to the floor and have no exposed fasteners.

Drawers and fronts. I used FSC laminated pine panels for the drawer bottoms and backs. This is an inexpensive material that is made from knotty scraps of pine plantations in South America. No particle board is used in any of my cabinets. I don't use it for durability and formaldehyde reasons.

All the boxes mounted.

About 55 hours into it so far not counting design, which I would guess around 40 hours. This is why kitchens are so expensive. I have about $1400 into the materials. I would guess this would be a $10,000-$12,000 job if we had Henrybuilt do it.