Do it right and raise the window!

Seriously. Just replace the window. No big structural work required. It doesn't have to come up much. In fact, the countertop can also serve as the sill.

Changing fenestration on a residence isn't to be taken lightly, especially if the home is in a historic district or is a historic home.

I don't know if this will help since you have a cabinet in there but houzz just had an article about what to do with low windows in the kitchen and they have some interesting sink pictures.

Here is a link that might be useful: [Great Solutions for low kitchen windowsills[(https://www.houzz.com/magazine/great-solutions-for-low-kitchen-windowsills-stsetivw-vs~25381595)

I doubt that changing the window is going to be a problem, Treb, because it looks like that is a replacement pocket window set in an old frame.

I'm in the 'do it right' camp. Just replace the window.

Why try to rig up a failure? You will waste more time rigging than doing it the right way. Raise the window or put in smaller window or remove the window. These are your options of "do it right!" Sounds to easy. Why waste time and effort- Do it right!

Here is a link that might be useful: Atlanta Classic Stone

I'm a little late, but my .02 cents. Was in a similar position with a window over the sink. We changed out the window size/height. It was the right move for us to do correctly. It is one, If not the nicest feature in our small kitchen. It can be tough to eat an error, but some are just worth eating the cost and doing it right. This is just one of those times. I'll have to look if I have a photo to post.

Who ordered the wrong sized window to begin with? And installed it? And doesn't see it as their problem to fix?

When you buy a house in a historic district, you are more a steward than a homeowner. You have an obligation to the neighborhood to not make fenestration changes willy-nilly.

Changing that window size is a big deal. Or should I say changing that window size properly is a big deal, particularly if the exterior is masonry.

Catharine442 -- I loved the article you linked, where they showed different solutions to the low windows. Sometimes the trickiest problems lead to elegant solutions!

OP -- in the article, they showed a "floating sink" that crossed the low windows. If you can't adjust the position of your window, then alter your design to include a floating sink. I agree w/PP who said sometimes you just need to fix the error and do it right. A cab/counter/sink going across the window would really bother me (and I remodeled w/a sink that is not centered at the window, so I would say I have reasonable tolerance for making compromises...I wanted a bigger sink more than it be centered)

Historic? Where did that come from? The tiny kitchen?

It seems like it should be a little scary that so many people here think nothing of just moving a window, but it does happen. Window scar on the exterior? Plant a vine; fix it later when all the other dust has settled and you feel like painting that one outside wall of the house.

The inside is a bigger deal later, not so much now while the room is still a mess. This is just a planning glitch that can be fixed without much pain at all. Those very same people who think nothing of moving a window have that "let's-just-fix-it" attitude because they, too, make these sorts of layout goofs. Some of us more than we'd like to admit.

Maybe, as problems often are, this is an opportunity to do more. F'rinstance, the pic seems to show the window is in a corner. It could be made wider as well as higher. You DO have another year budgeted for this project, no? Ain't kitchens fun?