Concessions

I've had to concede 10cm of precious counter space to avoid cutting the longer slab of granite, or as M puts it, to preserve its integrity.  I was heartbroken!  For weeks now, I've been trying to reconfigure in my mind the countertop set-up--where to put the rice cooker, coffee maker, knife block, etc.  We even had a small rolling island made for additional work space when preparing meals.  And now this.  But it was either chop off those 10cm or live with the unappealing sliced slab of stone.  Form or function?  This is one of the very few times M went for form and I actually leaned towards the latter.

 where the 10 centimeters should have been