My new dish rack!!!

Told you I’d do it.

Gonna add hooks to the frame later so we can hang our teacups and cooking implements. But for now… bed.

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So, on the advice of Glenn Campbell, we’re tossing over half of our dishes into “storage” (a.k.a. boxes in the closet) and NOT using our dishwasher. We will keep some extras around for the purpose of feeding our friends. But we think the wash-as-you-go idea has a lot of merit. Just requires a little discipline.

This one is really cool, but at $498, a bit too expensive for us.

I’ve also been doing some hunting for wall-mounted dish racks. I’d really like one that hangs over the sink – that way, when you set the dishes in to dry, you’re also putting them away. Here are some neat ones from Apartment Therapy.

Two problems: 1) They’re notoriously hard to find/kinda expensive. 2) We can’t mount things on our apartment drywall.

So, I’m thinking of building a free-standing frame to hold a regular dish drainer instead. If it works, I’ll include instructions on our soon-to-debut wiki.

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