Sort of gooster - there is adjustment, but.......... The range still factors having weight (of a panel) on the door. I'm not positive on Bosch, but Miele's won't zero out unless you remove the springs which would be a real pain and more expensive than buying a piece of scrap plywood. Sure, lots of things could work instead of a panel: Duct tape, magnets, glue and bailing wire, chewing gum, one of those suction handles marketed to elderly people that you see on late nite TV, a bin pull with surface mount screws, and on and on. Point is - none of them (Bosch included) is DESIGNED to be used with out a panel installed. Really, are most people buying a $1000+ integrated DW so strapped for time and cash that they cant go down to the homecenter and pick up a piece of wood ?

They'll probably still go in the same hole. Panel sizes may be different of course. I think the remote control will be good for integrated. NO controls visible, so total dishwasher concealment. My integrated one required me to pull out the secret passcode book to program some settings. A remote should allow easy function selection. I HOPE it would come with mounting screws so you could just stick it on the inside of a cabinet door (Sink tip out?). Don't think of it as something your kids will lose. Of course I don't know what it actually does. But the idea which sounds ridiculous at first makes sense if you think about it.

My kitchen and bath renovations are scheduled to begin tomorrow. I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight! I, too, have a small kitchen and I live alone, so I opted for the Bosch 18-inch dishwasher. I preferred the conventional-type dishwasher thinking that I'd have an easier time fitting tall items. Turns out the 18-inch panel-ready is quite a bit more costly than a standard model, about $850. I treated myself and made room for a 12-inch wide undercounter wine fridge. Mine is a Danby, and I think it was $650. I'm pretty sure beverage cans will fit as well as the regular bottles of Champagne, but the larger bottles might be an issue. All the more reason to drink them quickly! Also a splurge was the Liebherr 24-inch wide refrigerator, but it makes sense in my pretty small kitchen. The narrow refrigerator allowed me to get a 21-inch wide full height pantry -- and, yes, it's made out of an upper cabinet with 3 or 4 rollout shelves and a lower cabinet with a narrow drawer and two deep drawers. I do plan to be here for the long run and since this isn't really a family-size apartment, I'm not too concerned about resale value. I just wanted what suits me! Good luck!

tsjmjh I am going to have to get someone to put the pulls on and I had figured out that they had to go on prior to the panel being installed. I guess I don't know where the little bit of space is for the screws until I get my appliances. I was thinking they need to be countersunk so the panel can be flat against the dw. Do all dishwashers have a space for the screws? My appliance installer said they would put the panels on for me but they will not put the pulls on the panels. So I need to get someone to do that. I don't have a cabinet person because I already had the cabinets and got the panels for the dish drawers to match the cabinets. I live in a very old house and I was installing a custom range hood to house venting over my new stove. My house has never had a vent over the stove at all but I am getting a dual fuel stove and figured with the higher BTU output of the burners I needed to get ventilation. So this is sort of an upgrade to my kitchen mostly surrounding appliances and what goes with them. It has been quite a process because of all the things you don't see that cost money (new Electrical Panel, different plugs, moving the gas line over 6 inches, etc). But it is almost complete. nidnay I think my panels should be fine. They were sprayed with an oil based paint and so I am not going to worry about doing anything more to them. But I do need to figure out how to get the pulls on there correctly so the panel will fit flush. I took your advice and got the regular pulls to match my other drawer pulls and they are 8 inches center to center. I think that is plenty big plus since I need two of them I wasn't going to spend several hundred dollars on the "appliance pulls" if the others will work just fine. You have been in on this from the beginning. I am almost done. I will post before and after photo once I am finished. I have had many frustrations along the way and every time I think it is almost at the end something will happen. Like the last 2 times the AC guy was supposed to come and cut a hole in my roof for the ducting, we had a downpour of rain so it had to be delayed. Plus the usual issues with people not showing up when they are supposed to, paint not matching, me having to supervise because the person who is supposed to is nowhere to be found, etc. But I can see the end now.