A couple of months back, we bought a new corner unit and sink from Ikea. That's what initiated the whole kitchen remodel insanity that is still ongoing.

We used to have a double-bowl stainless jobbie, which was very poorly positioned in the only location capable of receiving a dishwasher. 3 years without a dishwasher. The horror!

Our new sink is a huge single-bowl porcelain affair, set into a natural oil-finished wood counter top. As with all things old house, changing one thing has a knock-on effect until the next thing you know you're demolishing half the kitchen.

Dishwasher -> relocate sink -> relocate stove -> remove half the bloody cabinets in the kitchen.

It's a good thing we knew we had to do all that before we actually did it, or the surprise would have killed us both.

We plumbed the new sink and dishwasher with pex (cross-linked polyethylene tubing). We've got a few rooms to do over the next couple of years, so we bought a crimper ($100!!) Pex goes together so easily and so cleanly, I'm going to replace the whole plumbing system with it!!

Since the Ikea cabinets are floating furniture, I decided that I should do something special with the drain pipe in case we ever need to move the cabinets. The basement pipe comes up through the floor, and a rubber coupler connects the sink pipe to it. The pex tubing also is connected to a couple of disconnects, so we can very easily yank the sink out in case we need to get back there (and we will, when the new flooring goes in)

Also, around this time, we got our first zuchinni of the summer! It was MASSIVE. There's a photo of my giant zuchinni down here...

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