Since Linn from Christonium sent an email describing her DIY stainless steel countertop, I’m just gonna be lazy and cut and paste the whole thing. Yeah, even though it’s on her own blog (hit link above). But it looks great and her how-to post is more informative than anything I can come up with myself. Because I’m lazy.

Soooo, here’s Linn…

I wanted to share a project of mine which I’m very happy with: my new stainless steel kitchen counters which me and my husband installed ourselves. When we were remodeling our kitchen we were debating about what counters to choose. I loved the idea of stainless steel counters, so industrial, natural and durable, however if you get them professionally installed then they can be pretty pricey.

We worked with a local sheet metal place that gave us a very reasonable quote on shaping a piece of stainless steel if we did some of the work ourselves: so we made a plywood model of our counters, brought it to our local shop and later installed it all on top of our old counters. The result has been great. We got really nice counters which ended up costing us around $400 (roughly $20/square foot.) Now, that’s an excellent price, and our counters are perfect!