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ranaloreSome pictures.
To give you an, uh, sweeping sense of the awfulness.
Close-up to give you an idea of the no-drip border, which is nearly 1/4" high, which I understand to be on the high side, as these things go. Also so you can see the nearly one hundred years of schmutz collected in the grout and corners.
Aesthetically, I do not find the kitchen as objectionable as the violently yellow-tiled bathroom, but the bathroom is turning out to be even more functional than the bathroom downstairs. More storage, an actual medicine cabinet, a linen closet, and the bathtub is ancient and needs re-glazing like whoa, but it's roomy. And seriously, I grew up in military housing and the rental houses that could be afforded on a single salary supporting a family of six headed by two penny pinchers who had been raised by rural survivors of the Great Depression. This entire apartment, kitchen and bathroom included, is far from the ugliest place I've lived. It's not about the ugly. It's about the inability to clean the damn things. I have scrubbed them down, and still specks come up when I set something down on them. There's not only the hygiene issue, but those are other people's crumbs of gluten. So until I find a solution, I have been using the one section of clearly-added-on cabinet with a wooden top between the oven and the built-in cabinet and counters. Which ain't a lot of room, and kind of defeats the purpose of moving up to a bigger kitchen, but better that than destroying my intestines further.
Anyway, if anyone has any ideas for temporarily covering counters with that kind of raised edge, in a way that will not leave marks when removed--and which could accommodate an uneven surface, because this building is very, very old and built in a sandy, swampy area and has settled--I am all ears.
To give you an, uh, sweeping sense of the awfulness.
Close-up to give you an idea of the no-drip border, which is nearly 1/4" high, which I understand to be on the high side, as these things go. Also so you can see the nearly one hundred years of schmutz collected in the grout and corners.
Aesthetically, I do not find the kitchen as objectionable as the violently yellow-tiled bathroom, but the bathroom is turning out to be even more functional than the bathroom downstairs. More storage, an actual medicine cabinet, a linen closet, and the bathtub is ancient and needs re-glazing like whoa, but it's roomy. And seriously, I grew up in military housing and the rental houses that could be afforded on a single salary supporting a family of six headed by two penny pinchers who had been raised by rural survivors of the Great Depression. This entire apartment, kitchen and bathroom included, is far from the ugliest place I've lived. It's not about the ugly. It's about the inability to clean the damn things. I have scrubbed them down, and still specks come up when I set something down on them. There's not only the hygiene issue, but those are other people's crumbs of gluten. So until I find a solution, I have been using the one section of clearly-added-on cabinet with a wooden top between the oven and the built-in cabinet and counters. Which ain't a lot of room, and kind of defeats the purpose of moving up to a bigger kitchen, but better that than destroying my intestines further.
Anyway, if anyone has any ideas for temporarily covering counters with that kind of raised edge, in a way that will not leave marks when removed--and which could accommodate an uneven surface, because this building is very, very old and built in a sandy, swampy area and has settled--I am all ears.
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Date: 2017-12-10 02:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-10 03:00 am (UTC)<- horrified daughter of a food service worker
I'm honestly thinking a sheet of plexiglass fitting inside the raised edges may be your best bet, here. At least, for the base layer, and then maybe an actual food-grade cutting mat or four over that.