Our cash register counter is striking, to say the least. And so many people ask about it, we figured it deserved its place on the website. The counter base is made from ordinary kitchen cabinets—but they are wrapped and trimmed in reclaimed Indiana barn wood sourced from our friends at Hoosier Reclaimed Timber out of Bloomington, IN. HRT has made it their mission to salvage wood from old Indiana barns and make it available to others. The various pieces of barn wood were then cobbled together by the owner's husband to give this gorgeous Indiana wood a second life here at Artisans. And not to be outdone by the beautiful barn wood, this amazing counter is topped off with a countertop called Alehouse Amber (it is rumored that once the owner's husband heard the name Alehouse Amber, the countertop selection was a foregone conclusion). This material is made out of approximately 280 pounds of crushed, recycled beer and condiment bottles placed by hand into a cement composite. The glass is 100% recycled and the entire process is eco-friendly and LEED-certified. You have to see it to believe it, because one can actually distinguish the various pieces of the beer bottles embedded in the concrete. And if you do the math on the weight of the beer bottles—which we have conveniently already done for you—it means we have a total of about 640 beer bottles entombed in our counter (that must have been one great celebration)! This extremely unusual countertop was produced by hand by Vetrazzo in Tate, GA (made in the U.S.A.), and took approximately 4 weeks to finish. It was installed by our dealer of choice, Stonesmithsout of Noblesville, IN.