I’m beginning off the brand new yr in want of a brand new fridge. The fridge itself isn’t horrible. It’s preserving our meals chilly, though I do must take care of frozen heavy whipping cream each morning once I make my espresso. That’s getting annoying, and it freezes regardless of how I modify the fridge temperature. However that’s a minor annoyance that I can take care of, and it doesn’t make shopping for a brand new fridge an pressing want.
However what’s actually attending to me is our freezer. There should be a continuing drip coming from the ice maker as a result of what occurs is that ice builds up progressively on the again.
And as that chunk of ice will get greater, it prohibits me from pushing the ice container all the way in which to the again of the freezer. And as soon as the container will get pushes ahead an excessive amount of, virtually the entire ice that drops from the ice maker goes again behind the ice container and begins filling up the decrease a part of the freezer. And if I ignore it for a few months, I’ve acquired an actual mess on my arms…
So yesterday, once I got here into the kitchen after lunch and noticed that the freezer door was standing open (as a result of it had been pushed open by the ice container being shoved too far ahead by the ice buildup), I needed to take an hour of my afternoon and clear out the freezer, eradicating a few sink-full of ice, and chipping out that huge mound of ice on the again with a knife.
So I’m hoping this yr, I will get a brand new fridge with an in-door ice dispenser. The problem of getting a brand new fridge for our kitchen is that the fridge cupboard is barely 30 inches large.
Now if I get my want, and I’m in a position to utterly redo our kitchen together with our addition, and I get all new cupboards like I would like, I may probably transfer factor round only a bit in order that I’ve three or 4 extra inches there. However then that’ll simply scale back my countertop house, and I don’t know that I need to surrender countertop house for extra fridge house. We don’t really want a much bigger fridge, however the situation is that there isn’t a wide array of 30-inch-wide and narrower fridges.
So I’m probably not certain how that can all work out, however I do know that this freezer is driving me loopy. I’ve been battling this ice maker for a minimum of two years now (in all probability longer), and it’s profitable. It could win the battles, nevertheless it received’t win the warfare. 😀
However together with a brand new fridge, I additionally desire a new vary and *drumroll, please* a brand new dishwasher.
Let it’s identified that I’ve modified my thoughts about not having a dishwasher. 😀 I believe it was again in 2019 (earlier than 2020 utterly derailed so many issues) that I made a decision I didn’t desire a dishwasher in my kitchen anymore. It was one of the vital controversial choices I ever made about something in my home. It appeared like some individuals had been actually indignant with me for suggesting such a factor. 😀
Nicely, quick ahead just a few years, and I by no means acquired round to changing that dishwasher house into cupboard house. I nonetheless don’t use the dishwasher. I can’t even keep in mind the final time I turned the factor on. It’s been properly over 5 years, and I’ve solely used it just a few occasions since we acquired it.
However I’ve now determined that I do desire a dishwasher, and I need to use it as greater than only a glorified drying rack (which is what our present dishwasher is). So if I do get the chance to redo the kitchen this yr once we do the addition, I will likely be together with a dishwasher within the kitchen. And I will likely be utilizing it.
What made me change my thoughts is that lots has modified since 2019. Matt and I went from by no means having individuals in our dwelling to now having individuals in our dwelling often. I prepare dinner for a crowd as soon as every week (besides that we took day without work of that over the Christmas season), and we at all times use paper plates, plastic utensils, bottled water, and so forth.
I’d truly like to maneuver away from these issues and use actual plates, non-disposable silverware, and precise cups for drinks. However I additionally don’t need to be caught hand washing all of that when everybody leaves. So with our way of life now, it will be very good to have a dishwasher that may do the job shortly, effectively, and completely. Simply so long as it’s a panel-ready dishwasher, and I received’t have an apparent dishwasher seen from the entrance door, I’m truly enthusiastic about having a working dishwasher.
However once more, we’ll must see how all of this works out. I’d like to do the kitchen transform on the identical time we’re tackling the addition since a part of the addition will in all probability have an effect on the again wall of the kitchen anyway. Within the meantime, I’m going to begin planning for and dreaming about my new kitchen with a non-leaking ice maker, a usable freezer that doesn’t get stuffed up with ice, and a working dishwasher.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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