Homemade Sink Cabinet
About two weeks ago, we experienced a kitchen crisis: the stainless steel kitchen sink that came with the house rusted apart (the drain literally fell out of the bottom) and the sink cabinet that housed it (a $100 cabinet from Lowes) collapsed. Our kitchen has been badly in need of rennovation ever since we moved here, but this situation made a re-do imperative. When we moved in, we had re-fitted the kitchen with cabinets salvaged from someone else's rennovation, but almost all of those have now lost their doors or broken their drawers, leading my husband to declare war on the standard kitchen cabinet. And new cabinets and countertops, with their thousand-dollar price tags, remain beyond our budget. So the solution? Several components came together to help us escape this kitchen debacle, no doubt guided by our guardian angels. 1) A vintage sink. With built-in dishdrains on either side, this cast-iron sink was given to us by an in-law, who had it lying on the ground outside his