Identification Dry Sink
Chrissie Farrell
2 years ago
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My sisters and I are trying to sort through some items for our upcoming estate sale but really are a little out of touch with antiques and collectibles. My mom was a collector and lived in New England.
What can you tell me about this dry sink so that I have more to go on with our research?
I know it's hard from just one picture but it's all I have access to at this time. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
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2 years agoChrissie Farrell
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Anyone else have a 'drying' sink?
Comments (46)Bentley--Before you lose storage space in the island due to sinks & plumbing in two cabinet bases, having to pay for 2 sink cutouts & two sinks, definitely check out the Oliveri sink I mentioned above. The D-shaped side is plenty wide + it's oversized front to back giving extra space for those pots & pans. The rectangle side is also plenty big--the size of 1/2 of most double bowl sinks out there. Both sinks are plenty deep. The measurements on my drawings were taken from my Oliveri sink at the widest parts of each basin--I think the actual specs listed on the sink basins are taken from the narrower ends. Here are a couple layouts I did for you based on your drawing to give you & your DW a finished visual. Your sink cabinet base in the middle of the island appears to be 36" wide. The Oliveri sink will require all 36" of it. Don't let your cab or granite guy tell you it can't be done as it's in my kitchen right now installed in a 36" sink base. I put a filtered water faucet on the smaller side with a larger main faucet at the divide. Here's a color visual of two separate sinks to the 30" & 24" specs you mentioned above: And here's a photo of the Oliveri sink model 885U/886U that is in the first layout: If you have a Hajoca Plumbing supplier in your area, many of them are selling off their floor model of this sink at a deeply discounted price. I know when I saw it in the showroom, it was the closest thing to heaven for a kitchen sink....See MoreCool Dish Drying Rack Concealed in Upper Cabinet Above Sink
Comments (12)In my parent's home, we "hacked" an Ikea GRUNDTAL dish rack to make a drying rack inside a cabinet. There is no wooden base to the cabinet - the water drips into the base of the rack (rather than into the sink as some of these racks do). My mother loves it. I am adopting the same concept in our flat using the stainless steel dish rack found across India (need to get a base for it to hold the water drips). The stainless steel dish rack used in typical Indian kitchens cost in India is about USD 35. Tsé & Tsé dish rack sells these on their website.. Ironically, just when Indian families are abandoning these kind of dish racks as being too traditional and "blah", they are considered chic in Europe. This post was edited by gemcap on Fri, Jan 23, 15 at 6:47...See More"Vintage" dry sink - determining age and style without dovetails
Comments (29)There's a lot of "stuff" out there masquerading as "antique" when in reality is's just used. There is no harm at all in refinishing stuff that was machine made in an era when machines made cheap furniture. Think 3 or 4 times about refinishing anything hand made; but remember that a lot of stuff made in the 1800's has already been stripped and refinished, and there is no harm in redoing. But to paint anything that was not originally meant to be painted is just wrong, and frankly looks so "newly married, very young, redoing stuff from mom's attic"....and to paint anything made out of "furniture wood"...oak, maple, walnut, Honduran mahogany, cherry and old growth pine is criminal. I stripped a painted walnut table made as a shop project, slapped on 3 coats of polyurethane and sent it to college to live in the Delt house and survive beer, coffee and who knows what else. After 4 years ( well 4 1/2 years!) it came home to live in an apartment, eventually the family room of the first house and eventually go back to college with another generation....I don't know where it is now, but I suspect it's still in use somewhere. Don't knock a shop project unless it's made of plywood! And stripping paint, whether you sand or not always destroys any patina a piece may have had....and patina is not discolorations from misuse ( although that can contribute), but the fine lines and silky texture a piece gets with long use....and a stripped bare piece has no "patina" only signs of use....which mostly I find worth maintaining....See MoreUnder sink dry wall. Rat !
Comments (4)When I had rat problems in our barn many years ago, I used Just One Bite bars. I'm sure there are other products that work just as well, but those are what a farmer friend recommended, and they did the job for me. However, I strongly recommend against any kind of poison if you have pets or young kids. In that case, the strong-spring hard plastic traps that you set with a squeeze (I don't recall the name) are pretty effective, and are reusable if you're not too squeamish about such matters. Peanut butter is an effective bait....See Moreremodeling1840
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2 years agoYeah, it's really a challenge.
The hard part is my mom cared so much about this stuff and we are just going back and forth about what to do. Each of us four sisters have already picked other pieces we want.
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