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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.<br>
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On 7/27/2011 9:12 PM, Reuben Deumling wrote:
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cite="mid:CAE5fceBr7XoYNTPnm_ZfbeJJ8xo4xLajaBgeuVv-h+t8eSWCiA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">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. <br>
Some people have suggested to me that this usage originated with a
marketing ploy, that 'wood countertop' isn't fancy enough. <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Bobbi
Chukran <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:bobbi@bobbichukran.com">bobbi@bobbichukran.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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padding-left: 1ex;">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.<br>
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I can clean my wooden countertops much easier than I ever
could tile or other surfaces.<br>
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For anyone who wants to know, this is the stuff we have on our
current kitchen counters:<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20057397"
target="_blank">http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20057397</a><br>
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