Comment on This split sink

Shieldtoad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I get it, but speaking as someone who used to design kitchen layouts for a living: Don’t put your sink in the corner. Just don’t.

  Also, this has one major “feature” above and beyond the usual diagonal sink in a corner cabinet, in that you can swivel the faucet into the middle position and dispense water directly onto your floor. Genius!

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  • teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    swivel the faucet into the middle position and dispense water directly onto your floor

    Or directly into a bucket.

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How often I’m filling buckets vs. how often I’d accidentally spill water on the floor.

      Would be a bad idea for me

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      • Instigate@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m pretty sure you’d get used to it after the first few times it happens. We accommodate to the limitations of many technologies on a nearly constant basis, often without consciously making those adjustments.

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      FB12

      Plastic floor bucket to sit on your floor.

      $679

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      • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ah. I see you found the “accessories” appendix of the KraftMaid catalog.

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    • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’d be awesome for me. I’m always giving my kids hot baths in a little tub out in the backyard. They love it but I have to haul the water out there.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There are two thing you never put in a corner: sinks and Baby.

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  • polle@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you have a faucet can swivel, you could probably always put it somewhere to spill directly on the countertop. Still ugly design, though.

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Doesn’t the faucet travel over the corners so it wouldn’t spill on the floor (much anyways) without pulling the faucet out?

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No. Look at it in the picture. The gooseneck in it comes forward quite long enough to at the very least hit the countertop in the middle of the corner, and most of that water will either spill onto the floor if it doesn’t hit it directly.

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      • Instigate@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The same gooseneck can spray outside the confines of the sinks away from the bench edge as well. There’s around 180° of movement the tap can make behind the sinks that would cause water to not fall into the sink as well. There are many wrong ways to use taps in regular sinks as well; I think spilling water between the sinks would be a self-correcting issue after the first few times it happens.

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    • gigachad@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You just have to be very fast

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My ex has the regular sink diagonally in the corner- and she’s too short. It has to be farther back from the edge of the counter to miss the corner. However she’s 5’2” (and overweight) so it’s harder to reach, enough to be an annoyance every time she washes dishes.

    Just don’t put your sink in the corner. There is no good solution

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    • littlewonder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So what I’m hearing, is that the corner sink causes divorces.

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah this seems like something you would do if the space didn’t permit anything else. Which is the case sometimes. But it’s not something to elect when you have other options.

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  • Wootz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ok, I’m super curious. By “In the corner” do you mean putting a sink on the actual corner unit? Or by the tablespace immediately next to it?

    In the case of the first one I totally get it. The corner unit is a cursed part of the kitchen anyway. If you mean immediately next to it, why not? Not disagreeing, just curious what a professional says.

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are a couple of ways people do this.

      The “correct” way, or most correct way I guess, is to have a cabinet in the corner that is diagonal, at 45 degrees relative to the left and right cabinet runs. Example:

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      You can buy premade angle cabinets that are designed for this, or you can just set a normal sink base cabinet at 45 degrees and mess around with fillers and so forth to space it out from the other two runs and hopefully ensure that there is sufficient clearance to open the doors and drawers on both it and the cabinets left and right of it. The disadvantage of this is it limits you to a surprisingly narrow sink, since it can’t be much if any wider than the face of the cabinet. And if you make the cabinet wider, you also have to bring it out into the room more and more as well, encroaching on your floor space. Normally people want to use a corner sink because they’re short on square footage anyway, so this is not ideal. Also, you inevitably wind up with a huge dead space behind the sink (that’s hard to reach, because there’s a sink and faucet in the way) and the further you bring out the face of the sink base cabinet the worse this gets.

      The other way is to just have a dead or blind corner with a typical 90 degree transition in it, and just plonk the sink diagonally in the dead space. Example:

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      (This isn’t actually quite that as installed in a kitchen, but my low effort Google search did not turn up a great picture of this.) This has all the width limitation problems as the strategy above, but also forces you to stand in this stupid pie-wedge space with a hard corner in it, with the countertop edge digging into and the cabinet knobs hooking your belt loops all the time. It’s super annoying. In order to get a decently sized sink in here people often wind up pushing it back, and you’ll learn quickly that working in a sink that’s super far away is also really fuckin’ annoying.

      Plan C which is now becoming popular is what OP posted, a double sink that’s got the 90 degree corner built into it. This is the worst of both worlds, if you ask me, because you still have to stand in a pie wedge plus the sink(s) you get are super narrow, and your functional setup becomes fraught with additional peril because idiots and/or children can activate the faucet with it aimed at neither sink, soaking your countertop, cabinets, and floor.

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      • Wootz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Wow, thanks for the reply!

        That makes a lot of sense. I was trying to work out why a sink immediately next to a corner was bad, but now I know what you mean.

        I guess it’s a bad solution to trying to work around the problem of kitchen real estate, the same way trying to use for cabinet in the corner unit for anything is almost always a bad time.

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  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That does tend to happen. Even without swiveling the faucet, moving dishes between basins causes a bit of a puddle to develop. Thankfully I have a tiled floor so it doesn’t matter too much.

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  • xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • decisivelyhoodnoises@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Go back to your basement since you obviously have never done any chores that include using the kitchen sink

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    • mriormro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, it’s a poor application of a design not intended for that application.

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      • xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Words typed by someone who has never had to manage a child or teenager.

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  • Kase@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Perfect for when you need to mop the kitchen floor-- no bucket required /j

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• The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This makes so much more sense. Still wouldn’t want it, but I get it.

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• hierophant_nihilant@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yep, and they are actually awesome! I personally hate washing dishes when there’s a pile of them in front of you because of all the splashing. This layout makes cleaning so much easier. Additionally, you can put up some stuff for defrosting in the second sink

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• Anonymousllama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Finally, was wondering where exactly these things would have been used 😮

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Could you just not put it there? I never known any sink in existence that is plumbed into the corner of the room, so presumably the piping has been redirected so that you need a corner sink, it’s literally the very definition of a solution looking for a problem and indeed a problem has to be created so the solution is required.

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• fne8w2ah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  #oddlysatisfying

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• CanniBallistic_Puppy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes, but that particular sink happens to be named “Baby”.

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• Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Still not centered.

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• chriscz@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m a programmer and this makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside 🫠

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• postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Probably thinking of bars applications too.

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  • aniki@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or just a cramped dive bar, that and a troth.

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      • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        …trough

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• downhomechunk@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Show us the plumbing under the sink!

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