{"id":5881,"date":"2010-01-27T23:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=5881"},"modified":"2016-02-07T12:41:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T17:41:38","slug":"convertible-surface-for-a-kitchen-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2010\/01\/27\/convertible-surface-for-a-kitchen-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Convertible Zinc Top for a Kitchen Island"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n Ten years after it was built, my kitchen still looked great EXCEPT for the counter tops. The speckled black-white-and-gray granite that seemed so right at the time looked dated, and its pattern was too busy to use as a surface for the food photography we did in my space. My friend Holton Rower<\/a>, who is an amazing artist, designer, and gifted improvisor, said “Why don’t you make a top to fit over the one you have?…Make a form out of plywood that will fit over the granite, \u00a0and cover it with a soft-ish metal that can wrap around the form…”<\/p>\n I remembered the old burnished zinc bars and cafe tables I’d seen in France, and thought that zinc’s soft luster would be make a beautiful surface to photograph food on. So I looked up ZINC FABRICATORS in the Yellow Pages, and found a guy in Brooklyn who would make me what I wanted. All I had to do was send him a plan…<\/p>\n