Is your dishwasher on the wrong side of the sink?
The first question in a kitchen layout is not about color. It is whether you are right- or left-handed, because that decides which side of the sink the dishwasher goes on.
Filmed in a kitchen from our portfolio: the two-tone custom kitchen in Summit, NJ.
What to take from it
In the video the order is set from the sink outward: the dishwasher comes first, directly beside the sink, and the trash pull-out comes next.
Which side that happens on depends on you. The two can swap for a left-handed cook, or simply because your last kitchen was laid out the other way and the habit is already there.
One more rule from the video: the trash pull-out should also end up close to the range.
This is what a 3D layout is for. Bring rough measurements to any showroom and a designer will lay out the sink wall with you; the design is free.
Transcript
I usually ask a client if they're righty or lefty. If they're righty, most people are, what I do is, right off the sink, I put the dishwasher first.
And then, definitely, you're going to have to have this garbage pull-out, that we could always swap. Depends on if you're righty, lefty, or used to having the kitchen in your previous house. Also, the garbage usually should be close to the range.
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