There will be 2 cut-outs! One from the kitchen sink, and one from the cooker hob! We didnt know this, but chanced upon a post online sharing how home owners can request to keep it, so we made it known to our main contractor right from the start that we wanted to keep the cutouts too! (Although it took many rounds of reminders, before they finally gave us the sintered stone cut-outs without additional charges.)
Initially we wanted to make it into a coffee table of sorts, but the plan didnt follow through. We had kept the sintered stone cutout in our store room for a few months, before we thought of a use for it! In the service yard, where our oven and ninja foodi is placed!
The original IKEA shelves collected dust and stained easily! Hence, we decided to place these sintered stone cut-outs on the IKEA shelf-top. In this way, cleaning will be easier! Plus the sintered stone has higher heat resistance too!