[Greenbuilding] Counters

[Bob Klahn]

To my eye, the grain of that Ikea "oak" countertop illustration doesn't 
resemble any oak I know - but does look a lot like one of the rainforest 
species that is marketed as  "oak".  Probably a double negative option, 
but I won't rant either.


On 7/27/2011 9:12 PM, Reuben Deumling wrote:
> I too have observed this trend. But it is really too bad when 
> 'everybody' is so sloppy in their usage. The countertop you show is 
> neither a 'block' in terms of the whole thing, nor in terms of the 
> components which--in the case of butcherblock--could be considered 
> blocks given their aspect ratio.
> Some people have suggested to me that this usage originated with a 
> marketing ploy, that 'wood countertop' isn't fancy enough.
>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Bobbi Chukran <bobbi at bobbichukran.com 
> <mailto:bobbi at bobbichukran.com>> wrote:
>
>     OK, what I'm calling "butcherblock" isn't end grain wood.  It's
>     strips of wood glued up to make a long slab.  Everybody seems to
>     call that butcherblock--that's what the lumber yards call it, and
>     the generic term has become fairly common, so that's what I call
>     it.  Yeah, I know it's not the same as the real butcher blocks.
>
>     I can clean my wooden countertops much easier than I ever could
>     tile or other surfaces.
>
>     For anyone who wants to know, this is the stuff we have on our
>     current kitchen counters:
>
>     http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20057397
>
>
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