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We have a giant collage in our kitchen that we covered with plexiglas. To buy a piece of plexiglas that large would have been $150. We went to Home Depot (or lowe's maybe) and got two of their largest pieces and had them cut for free at the store to the size we needed. They are each half the size of the picture and the seam in the middle is lined up with the seam across the center of the picture. I think it was about $40 -60? We have wood making a frame around the picture and screwed the plexi on top, like a box. (The collage is thick.) We drilled pilot holes in the plexi and then used screws with larger washers on the outside.

We have an UTBY kitchen island. We had a Corian top that matches the countertops made for the base. I love it - we were specifically looking for an island without shelves at the bottom. That way, the trash can fits underneath and the stools push all the way underneath the island. (Our old butcher block IKEA island was too hard to keep clean and since it had a shelf, the kids couldn't reach to eat really well, since the stools are far away.)