What the heck is my kitchen floor doing on Boing Boing???!!! :-)

Thanks for all the comments - positive and negative.

It's a new house construction, so all the pieces in the kitchen floor come from leftover scraps from other areas we used the material - master/guest bathroom floor, countertop surfaces in both bathrooms as well as kitchen counters.

@#10 CLAUD9999
We were lucky in that ALL the pieces we purchased were actually remnants from previous jobs. We scoured all the local businesses that sold marmo and managed to find an amazing selection of colors for 1/3 of the normal list price.

@#12 PIPER
Using that type of maple plywood is extravagant, and you're right, there are cheaper options. It's very green however compared to most composite materials out there - less glues used, less embedded chemicals etc. We're just lucky that we have access to a great cabinet maker, my dad!

@13 MADMOOSE
That looks awesome! Can't wait to read through, thanks for posting.

@#17 VESPABELLE
Marmo is great stuff but can be a real pain in the butt to work with. Since we've used so much, we're learning it's limitations - edge work being one of them. Glue is very important, though for the countertops we used a different glue to what the manufacturer recommended. It's this cool spiderweb-type spray glue that you apply to both surfaces and then attach. Once they connect they're never moving again so you have to be accurate.