Re: Moving the story forward

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:03:18 -0400, "E. Liddell"
<eliddell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:17:39 -0500, Cyli wrote:

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:23:42 GMT, ames@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andrew
Stephenson) wrote:

In article <MPG.20e44c7e57f1d4dd9899fe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
jzimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx "Joann Zimmerman" writes:

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. [...]

I have just reviewed all the places I've lived. Only one, my parent's
second house, had a window over the sink. My rental places and two
purchased homes have both had wall facing sinks.

I live in Minnesota, which may be part of the reason. It's best, up
here where there can be a worry about pipes freezing, to have as much
of the plumbing and pipes on interior walls as possible.
<snip anecdote>

And yet, while Canada should logically be rather colder than Minnesota,
I don't think I've ever lived in a house that didn't have a window
over the sink. And this is in areas where the temperature routinely
drops to around -40 of a January night.

Darned if I know. Maybe it's that I don't look for a window over the
sink when choosing a place to live?

This one could have it. Just would need to have the kitchen and
living rooms changed in size a bit and switched.

Hmmm. Only one of my close friends has a sink with a window over it.
And she does anything possible to avoid doing dishes. No, Hue has
one, too. Maybe we mostly favour different decades or eras of
architecture and the times and fashions in building have something to
do with sink placement?

On the hind paw, this is the first place I've lived that doesn't have
a bathroom window, either. And we have two bathrooms. I do like
bathroom windows, so I'm surprized we took the place. A fan / exhaust
system just isn't the same.
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