If all goes well, by the time you read this, the dishwasher installation will have started. This morning, the guy who’s helping Vince with the installation is coming and the guy who’s going to build the new dining room cabinet is coming.
The cabinet on the left (not the one under the sink) is 22″. They need a 24″ cabinet for the dishwasher. The drawers on the right are 33″ so, both of those sections come out. Just my luck, they’re saving the countertop! 🙁
They’re going to make a little cookie sheet type cabinet (probably about 10″) with a narrow drawer on the left. That will give me some extra room room so I’m not scrunched up against the cabinets under the sink while loading/unloading the dishwasher. Then taking out the 24″ for the dishwasher, they will cut the drawers down to 21″ and that will still be fine.
Cabinets Before
The cabinet maker is going to build about 10″ of upper and lower cabinets in the dining room, which is right off the kitchen. The bottom cabinets will be a bit deeper than normal cabinets and there will be solid surface countertop on that area so I can roll pie crusts, knead bread, and probably do most of my real work in there. There will be electric plugs added so I can have the crockpot in there and anything else I want to plug in. So, I’m giving up 24″ of lower cabinet and gaining 10′ of upper and lower cabinets. Not a bad deal, huh?
Empty Cabinets
What I had to do was clean out all the drawers and the cabinet. It wasn’t too bad . . the cabinet had the waffle maker and the juicer on one shelf and the steamer and blender on the other. They’re now in the master bedroom. Hurry up Mr. Cabinet Maker and get that cabinet built! 🙂
Under the Sink
Because they have to hook into this plumbing, I had to clean out under the sink. It does not matter what size or how many cabinets I have, they’re all going to be overflowing. At least I found my Swiffer Duster handles . . all 8 of them! Who would have stuck them under the sink? Why did I have 4 half full bottles of Murphy’s Oil Soap? I used that on the wood floors in MO but I don’t use it here.
Everything from under the kitchen sink is in a Rubbermaid tote on the porch.
I had a drainboard but I didn’t like it so there’s always a soggy, wet dish towel with dishes sitting on my countertop . . my precious little countertop.
Dishes Drying
I hope that’s gone for good and I hope this section of my countertop always looks like this:
No Dishes Drying!
Don’t ask me why there’s one egg sitting on my sink! I don’t have a clue. And you’ll notice, I still had a sink full of dirty dishes when that picture was taken. Those days are coming to an end!
shirley bruner says
i find the egg hilarious. congrats on the dishwasher.
Carolyn says
It will be so worth it! I use a pad I picked up at Walmart that is for draining dishes and use it for my most freqeunt items knives,and cast iron that I don’t put into the dishwasher. BUT it’s always full. DH and I don’t tend to put things away very often.I have found that w my swifters, I store them w the pads, or dusters, and always put a new one on the handle. BC i don’t have ‘cleaning days’ I can grab it and do what ever area is ‘bothering me” at that time.
JudyL says
I have those pads too but found that once they got damp, even after just a couple of hours, the grout in the countertop underneath them began to get moldy so I went back to towels.
Stephani in N. TX says
You have beautiful cabinets in your kitchen. Can’t picture how all was installed without a dishwasher, or how you have gotten along without one since you moved in, given your level of activity in the kitchen. I was one of 7 in our family who rotated washing family dishes by hand as a kid. As an adult – I love my dishwasher. especially on creative cooking days where pots and bowls end up everywhere! Enjoy the new dishwasher Judy. They use pods now you know, not powder. Love that too!!
JudyL says
It isn’t so bad til canning season and then I need the sink and it’s got dirty dishes, or clean dishes waiting to be rinsed, and I need all my countertop and half of it has dishes draining. I’m so happy to have a dishwasher again.
Yes, it’s only been 18 months since I had a dishwasher. I haven’t used the powder in years and years . . always used the gel stuff, which is what I bought for this one. The fact that the pods are in “dissolvable” plastic and I’m on a septic tank kinda concerns me so I won’t use those.
JudyL says
I’ often find eggs in shoes on the porch. Vince sticks them there and then forgets about them. I still don’t have a clue where Miss Hattie has established her laying spot. I’m sure it’s going to be a BIG surprise when we finally do find it.
Regina says
yay!!! and 10′ of cabinets??!?!? That’s bigger than my entire kitchen!!! That will be great!
Michelle says
There are always eggs sitting somewhere when you’ve got chickens, aren’t there? 🙂 Congratulations on your new dishwasher! I’ve been washing dishes by hand for six people for eight years now…I can’t decide if having a dishwasher would be enough of an improvement to make up for the lost counter space. What I *really* miss is the garbage disposal!
Susan says
Yay, I know you are happy tonight!
Diana says
Woohoo a new dishwasher !!! Congrats .. Oh and by the way Happy Mother’s Day to you ..
Peg H says
What a fantastic Mother” Day gift – whether it’s intended as that or not (I know it isn’t). But why don’t you like your countertops? I had tile countertops like that for many years; I no longer do, and I really miss them. I’d love to get rid of the fake-stone tops we have here and tile it all over …. isn’t it funny how we all love something things that other really dislike? Keeps the world interesting. And businesses in business! 😉 Happy Mother’s Day!