Italians love food.
They also know how to save time washing up. One of the greatest kitchen design assets that nearly every home I visited in Italy has is this fantastic Italian kitchen over-the-sink drying rack.
I heart this cheery orange kitchen (a friend’s)
These make clean-up so much easier, as you get to skip the drying phase all together. The water on dishes simply drips down into the sink, or into a little tray that you can slide underneath the lowest rack.
1. Wash 2. Set in rack 3. Done!
My ex-Italian kitchen
Love this! Be inspired.
that’s a brilliant idea!! I would love something like that! Especially that you can hide the dishes, that’s awesome! 🙂 xoxo
It really is! You can stack those wet dishes high until you have time to put ’em away. I really loved it (not that I did that ever;)
Love it! Wow! I’ve never seen that before…we are without a dishwasher, so that looks a lot neater than my large pile of dishes I refer to as “art” drying….
🙂 M
It’s great, really! I’ve never lived with a dishwasher save a few years in university, but I’ve never missed it. Perhaps that’s because I never got used to it? Same with a microwave. Didn’t have one until around age 14 or 15 and still prefer not to have it (though we do).
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Love the kitchen, colour and drying rack. I love my dishwasher because I’ve got four children. Growing up we didn’t have a dishwasher and didn’t need one until I had all those kids!
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I am loving the open shelves! For our next home, I think we will do something like that 🙂 And thank you again for stoping over at our blog! Hope you have a wonderful day!
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This is awesome! Great for keeping sticky little fingers off too! Thanks for stopping by my blog today. 🙂
I hadn’t considered that. Thanks for your insight! I can tell your kiddos must be older than mine.
This is lovely! My kitchen has similar style: drying racks over the sink, opened shelves and keeping everything by hand in the tiny kitchen. I think in Europe we love this 🙂
I think Europe is smart that way. Thanks for visiting, Hanni.
Such a great idea. Too bad we have a window over our sink! But I hardly dry my dishes anyways, they air dry until they are used again or put away.