The Backyard Benchtop

The arrival of the backyard bench top. Grahame and our neighbor The Clacka built this beautiful benchtop that now adorns our kitchen. It's made from Australian Ironbark. It still has to have a few more coats so it looks more glossy and shiny. There is gong to be a sink put into it (unfortunatlely). It just looks too good too cut a hole in it. I should have went with the original plan of having a white fireclay Butlers sink. It would have looked awesome. So now we just have a boring steel sink.
I orginally bought the laminate bench top and a heap of cupboards(not the ones you see here) for $100. Surprisingly the color suited the paintwork. But that benchtop now supports the timber top so it hasn't gone to waste.
The benchtop was built so it just slid right over the other. Doesn't it look great?
Will definitely do the other 2 bench tops in timber now as well. This was a much cheaper way of getting a timber benchtop than buying it through a cabinet maker or kitchen company.