We’re making a long, narrow island with stone top, but with wooden section for bar stools. Any tricks for preventing a gap where they join that traps dirt?
We’re making a long, narrow island with stone top, but with wooden section for bar stools. Any tricks for preventing a gap where they join that traps dirt?
And ideas for the back panel next to the stools would be appreciated. Rest of kitchen will be Scandinavian style with white cupboards and countertops, island top will be the same white so I think grey cupboards in the island is the way to go, it’s just the back panel that we don’t know how to style.
blackdevil8808
Add door panels across the back and baseboard at the bottom
04BluSTi
Fill the joint with epoxy or make the joint wide enough the shit falls through.
katz-meow
I did this detail on a project awhile back, basically the best way we could figure out was to have the stone company cut a rabbet joint out of the stone (bottom lip protruding) and then having the wooden section rabbet cut deeper then the stone so that when siliconed along the joining edge the additional gap on the underside allowed for proper expansion and contraction. The short edge that met the stone was also rabbetted but had the outside edge cut short so that the wood lip covered it. Sorry if the explanation isn’t clear enough.. hard to get the detail through text but this should help translate
madcapnmckay
I could treat the wood like a cope and back bevel it slightly so you get a really tight joint.
I’d caulk it. Depending on how you use and clean the space you’d need to re-caulk the joint every few years.
Ok-Wolverine2795
I’ve done this using stainless steel standoffs, raising the wood portion maybe an inch over the stone top, just enough to get fingers through to clean.
Ayavea
It’s almost never done this way, that the bar and the countertop, made from two different materials, are at the same height. It’s a bit weird. You have 3 options for the bar.
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And ideas for the back panel next to the stools would be appreciated.
Rest of kitchen will be Scandinavian style with white cupboards and countertops, island top will be the same white so I think grey cupboards in the island is the way to go, it’s just the back panel that we don’t know how to style.
Add door panels across the back and baseboard at the bottom
Fill the joint with epoxy or make the joint wide enough the shit falls through.
I did this detail on a project awhile back, basically the best way we could figure out was to have the stone company cut a rabbet joint out of the stone (bottom lip protruding) and then having the wooden section rabbet cut deeper then the stone so that when siliconed along the joining edge the additional gap on the underside allowed for proper expansion and contraction. The short edge that met the stone was also rabbetted but had the outside edge cut short so that the wood lip covered it. Sorry if the explanation isn’t clear enough.. hard to get the detail through text but this should help translate
I could treat the wood like a cope and back bevel it slightly so you get a really tight joint.
You could do a metal inlay to act as an expansion joint. [Hearth Studio](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/518969557071441007/) did something similar.
What’s the thickness of the Benxhtop ?
I’d caulk it. Depending on how you use and clean the space you’d need to re-caulk the joint every few years.
I’ve done this using stainless steel standoffs, raising the wood portion maybe an inch over the stone top, just enough to get fingers through to clean.
It’s almost never done this way, that the bar and the countertop, made from two different materials, are at the same height. It’s a bit weird. You have 3 options for the bar.
1. Make the whole thing from the same material
[Dark stone](https://livios-images.imgix.net/livios/umbracomedia/116319/4.Cosentino-werkruimte.jpg?h=375&w=500&fill-color=ffffff&fit=crop&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint&s=b0bae4914e27e53cea02b2d2f7030f02)
[Light stone](https://prolim.nl/app/uploads/2018/12/664_2160-1024×683.jpg)
[Light stone B](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/3mivngsc/production/a857d34fc1de312963e10f0959e37c1820df2f82-4500×3000.jpg)
[Wood A](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8a/d7/61/8ad761a8b1344d3f2d1fa6659bc3b89d.jpg)
[Wood B](https://www.uw-keuken.nl/uploads/website/UW_keuken_nieuws/houten_keuken_met_kookeiland/houten_keuken_kookeiland_RestyleXl.jpg)
1. If you absolutely insist on different materials, then
1. Difference in height for the bar
[Dark + light wood](https://nolte-prod-ebcwh6b9axcgebb3.z01.azurefd.net/-/jssmedia/project/nolte-jss/corporate-website/produkt-moods/soft_lack/nolte_kuechen_soft_lack_schwarz/16to10.jpg?mw=1440&as=0)
[Brown wood bar](https://www.keukenloods.nl/images/keukens/500/375/2/0/5bb72f907e38a.jpg)
[White + brown wood](https://s.brugman.nl/_processed_/1/5/csm_keuken-met-bar_5467a7033c.jpg)
[Corner version](https://s.mandemakers.nl/Moderne%20keuken%20met%20houten%20bar.jpg)
1. Place the bar as a plank on top, which also comes down to difference in height
[Thick plank](https://woonaanraders.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Keukens-Met-Kookeiland-47-1024×767.jpg)
[Dark thick plank](https://images.bemmelenkroon.nl/media/luxe-keuken-met-bar-2.jpg)
[Thin plank](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS5fJ-x8Z_Hy9DsQRaQ6uLkM52A9Jma-LYwLA&usqp=CAU)
[Dark thin plank](https://dmstbfbuck8fe.cloudfront.net/_processed_/2/7/csm_CSF-00029%20%281%29_01_00665fb250.jpg)