Rock Bound Coastal Kitchen

We spend a lot of time walking along the shore here, so when it came time to splurge on a couple slabs of granite for my tiny kitchen, I knew exactly what I wanted it to look like.

I wanted a slab of black granite with a rock-faced edge.

And I wanted the edges to follow an irregular line.

I got lucky and found someone willing to do this for me.

I also wanted a large under mount sink since we do not have a dishwasher (unless you count me) in our tiny kitchen.

Henri even made up some granite knobs for our kitchen cupboards from rocks we found on the shore.

We also used a few of our raku fish drawer pulls in here too.

When we moved here, there was already a little built-in diner booth, so I had a rock-faced slab of granite made for that too. I hung a tin *seahorse* as a backdrop to the diner booth.

The diner booth is built up on a little platform with 2 benches for seating.

On the edge of the platform I installed a little boat cleat.

And now I can easily serve all meals dockside, even on a rainy day. Although on sunny days, sometimes the *dishwasher* doesn't work real well.