Abstract: A method of producing a countertop upon a workspace furnishing such as floor cabinets by casting a polymer-modified cementitious casting compound thereupon has some of the following steps. Given the workspace furnishing, temporarily attaching edging forms or flow checks around all the free edges of the top deck thereof, both of which the forms the and flow checks operate to check the flow of the casting compound at least to the height of a given rise. Following that, pouring a polymer-modified cementitious casting compound over the countertop to the height of the given rise and as checked within the edging forms and flow checks. The edging forms have depending-flange relief cavities that descend below the plane of the deck that give the hardened casting compound an appearance of a virtual thickness that disguises in part the actual thinness of the rise over the deck.

Abstract: A writing board has a convertible stand. Left and right standards pivot at the writing board's sides by a sliding linking mechanism, and their free ends are formed with hooks so that a selection of the following can be achieved. That is, the writing board might be hung on a door with the hook ends of the standards swung up over the door's top edge. The standards might be swung down to stand the writing board off the floor as a floor stand. The standards' linked ends might be slid up high along the sides of the writing board, and swung back a little, to prop the writing board in the manner as a book easel. Whereas a floor stand manner of standing the writing board puts it between about waist and shoulder high, a book easel manner rests its bottom edge on a desk or podium.