I’ve Modified My Thoughts On One Of My Most Controversial Selections (Plus, I Want A New Fridge)

I’m beginning off the brand new yr in want of a brand new fridge. The fridge itself isn’t horrible. It’s conserving our meals chilly, though I do need to cope with frozen heavy whipping cream each morning once I make my espresso. That’s getting annoying, and it freezes regardless of how I alter the fridge temperature. However that’s a minor annoyance that I can cope with, and it doesn’t make shopping for a brand new fridge an pressing want.

And as that chunk of ice will get larger, it prohibits me from pushing the ice container all the best way 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 fingers…

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 couple of sink-full of ice, and chipping out that large 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 just 30 inches broad.

Now if I get my want, and I’m capable of fully redo our kitchen together with our addition, and I get all new cupboards like I need, 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 cut back my countertop area, and I don’t know that I wish to surrender countertop area for extra fridge area. We don’t really want an even bigger fridge, however the difficulty is that there isn’t a wide array of 30-inch-wide and narrower fridges.

So I’m not likely positive 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 at the least two years now (most likely longer), and it’s profitable. It might win the battles, however it received’t win the conflict. 😀

However together with a brand new fridge, I additionally need 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 fully derailed so many issues) that I made a decision I didn’t need a dishwasher in my kitchen anymore. It was some of the controversial selections I ever made about something in my home. It appeared like some folks had been actually indignant with me for suggesting such a factor. 😀

Properly, quick ahead a couple of years, and I by no means acquired round to changing that dishwasher area into cupboard area. 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 a couple of occasions since we acquired it.

However I’ve now determined that I do need a dishwasher, and I wish 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 shall be together with a dishwasher within the kitchen. And I shall 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 folks in our residence to now having folks in our residence recurrently. I cook dinner for a crowd as soon as every week (besides that we took day off of that over the Christmas season), and we at all times use paper plates, plastic utensils, bottled water, and many others.

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 wish to be caught hand washing all of that when everybody leaves. So with our life-style now, it might be very good to have a dishwasher that may do the job shortly, effectively, and totally. 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 need to see how all of this works out. I’d like to do the kitchen rework on the identical time we’re tackling the addition since a part of the addition will most likely 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 rework and adorn 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 nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.