While cutting some pieces of plywood today, I failed to probably plan all my cuts, with the end result being that I now have many nice long scraps that are only a foot or so wide. They’ll be perfect for the ductwork tunnel, but I need two pieces 21 1/8″ high for the interior divisions of the dishwasher cabinet and only have one suitable piece of plywood left. Before I steal more of Croft’s ugly scraps ( 😀 ), I’m going to go raid the other store he mentioned has a scrap bin. I went by there tonight just to scope it out and see where it is and, sure enough, there is a huge bin marked ‘free wood’. It’s behind a locked fence, so I’m going to hope for clear weather tomorrow so I can check it out. I also went by Home Depot, but their dumpster was locked up and there were only pallets outside of it.
The only other thing I’ll work on tonight is getting rid of The Ugliest Light Fixture In the Universe. I have four of these in Miranda; two in the dining area and two in the study, using up valuable wall space. The ‘shades’ are made of a rubber-like material. They have never worked, which explains why one lit up when I pushed on its switch yesterday. It was like it was telling me “don’t throw me away!” Here’s a picture for posterity.
It’s a shame these lights run off the 12V system. If it was off the 120V grid, I would have been able to replace the fixture with a plug for the dishwasher. I’m instead going to have to run wiring from the nearest plug to this general vicinity.
This picture also shows just how much of the window the dishwasher will be blocking as it is as wide as the counter and at least as tall as the bracket by the stove. The only other option would be to have the dishwasher facing out towards the dining room, but even that would chew up some window space. There really is no ideal solution and I want a dishwasher, dangnabit, so I’m just going to have to live with this. 🙂
It’s z toss up whose light fixtures are uglier – yours or mine. I think mine are really terrible because they try to look cutesy, whereas yours try to look worldly and sophisticated!
What’s the old saying, measue once, cut twice. Or is it the other way around. I’m intrigued that you can go get “free wood” that looks so nice.
Try being the imperative word. 🙂 The ceiling fixtures are pretty bad, too.
The saying is definitely the other way around! 😀 It doesn’t matter with me; I measure ten times and still goof.
The side panel for the cabinet comes from the wardrobe door plywood that I paid a bundle for.
As for for the free wood, it’s shameful what stores throw out! At a Home-Depot-like store back in Gatineau I once got a whole bank of drawers for my kitchen. It had been custom ordered, paid for, and never picked up so the store decided to just toss them. It was made of solid cherry wood on fancy gliders. Ridiculous! There is just so much waste in our society, hence why I proudly ‘shop’ in dumpsters and dumps.
The money I save is nice, but that’s just a small part of it. Why pay for something that I can get free just to say that I didn’t get it out of the dump? By not being proud, I do something good for the environment and I have money left over for other things.
Rubber lights?! That’s a new one on me….
Couldn’t you just lose the “glass panel by the stove and turn the dishwasher towards it? Which way does the door open? Or put a piano hinge on the bracket and swing it towards the stove to load the D/W. I assume it is there to prevent splashing so you probably wouldn’t be using the stove and loading the D/W at the same time anyway.
wbc:
The divider (which is plastic) is going because I would otherwise have to pass the dishwasher hoses over it, negating the value of putting the dishwasher on the counter. I think that the original purpose of the thing was to prevent staining of the dinette seat.
Facing the dishwasher towards the stove would mean having to coil the hoses are the unit, meaning possible kinks. I’ve thought of all the possibilities and I’m pretty convinced by this point that the best option is to have the dishwasher’s back against the wall where the window is.