[jyl]

Right now we have a single sink with two bowls. I HATE it. I'm prepping, wife is trying to get in there to wash something, snaps at me for getting chicken smooge on the clean dishes she stacked in the other sink bowl, etc. Or she's cooking and dumps her hot dirty pot in the sink right when I'm trying use it, so I have to wash her pot before I can resume my prep. Its to the point that I refuse to work in the kitchen if she's also working there. Yeah, we are crabby long-married folks. So I want prep and wash in distinctly separate areas.

We also need a completely separate area for wash-up, because our dishwasher is a commercial undercounter high-temp Hobart. Pre-rinse dishes, load rack, rack in machine, push button, wait 120 seconds, open door, big cloud of steam, put rack of 195F dishes on counter, they are dry in a minute. Super fast for large dinner parties, and an efficient cooking workflow (as soon as pot comes of the burner, blast it with the pre-rinse, toss into rack, in 120 seconds hang clean pot up) - when you're done cooking, most of the clean-up is already done. But that means you need clear counter space above the dishwasher to set the rack on. Which is right where my prep area is. Totally SUCKS.

I'm trying hard to consider aesthetics and salability in this remodel. I was originally going to go stainless steel commercial throughout. My wife, and the cow she had, talked me out of it. So now we need a kitchen that is "pretty" as well as functional.