Re: Moving the story forward

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b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:35:27 +0100, Catja Pafort
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Context. Presumably - is American architecture the same as
British, with the sink facing the window? In Germany,
sinks tend to face walls.

It's common but far from universal. I have a window over
the kitchen sink, and it faces a window over a kitchen sink
in the next house up the street, but my mother's kitchen
sink in Ripon faces a wall, and so did the one in our house
in Amherst years ago. I'm not sure about the two houses in
which we lived between those two -- it was long ago and only
two years in each -- but I think both had windows over the
kitchen sink.

Almost all my US houses have had either the sink facing a window or
right next to a window. In our current house, the sink is at a 45-degree
angle to the counters, and it's right next to a window, so this may
count.

The exceptions to this rule are houses designed by my father, who spent
some time in Germany; maybe he picked the idea up there?

The thing about having the window over the sink is that this is actually
most efficient for deploying wall cabinets. For fairly obvious reasons,
there are two places in the kitchen where you don't put the kind of
cabinets that start a foot or so above the counter: the stove and the
sink. If you put a window in one of those spots, you've not wasted any
extra cabinet spaces. It's probably a bit safer to put the window behind
the sink instead of the stove; if you want to open the window, all
you're risking is some soapsuds down your front.

--
"I never understood people who don't have bookshelves."
--George Plimpton

Joann Zimmerman jzimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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