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RE: DIY kitchen counter - BillN - 08-04-2016
Laminate with hardwood edging is a cheap but nice looking option. I was impressed with the variety of pattern options when I built my bathroom counter.
RE: DIY kitchen counter - dyne - 08-04-2016
I DIY'd a solid surface countertop and it wasnt too bad
RE: DIY kitchen counter - K. L. McReynolds - 08-04-2016
Concrete. Fairly simple to DIY, can be dyed, and smoothed to almost a gloss finish.
RE: DIY kitchen counter - JerGar - 08-05-2016
(08-04-2016, 02:50 PM)BillN Wrote: Laminate with hardwood edging is a cheap but nice looking option.
This is what I would do in your situation.
Put your wood edging on first then laminate over it then router a chamfer on the edge..
RE: DIY kitchen counter - EricU - 08-05-2016
apparently Home Depot has some Chinese origin stone that is fairly reasonable.
RE: DIY kitchen counter - Mr_Mike - 08-05-2016
Stone as in tile, slab, random sizes?
RE: DIY kitchen counter - crokett™ - 08-08-2016
(08-04-2016, 10:11 PM)K. L McReynolds Wrote: Concrete. Fairly simple to DIY, can be dyed, and smoothed to almost a gloss finish.
Having tried concrete, it's harder than you think. It's best done in a mold, outside, for various reason but then you face the problem of getting it inside (it's very heavy). There is also an art to coloring concrete and getting a color match when you mix multiple batches.
RE: DIY kitchen counter - EricU - 08-08-2016
I thought about concrete, but I have prior experience and I'm not up to that. Still trying to decide. Getting the walls done has taken longer than I thought
I haven't figured out if the Chinese stone is really stone or some mashed up radioactive material (I kid, I think). Not really interested in having installers do it for various reasons.
RE: DIY kitchen counter - splinter7612 - 08-09-2016
There's an Ikea in south philly, they have some nice resonable counter tops.
RE: DIY kitchen counter - EricU - 08-09-2016
I thought about Ikea, but we are an all-Prius family and that's 3+ hours through traffic populated my an amazing number of horrible people