will this work? Dishwasher in utility room

[IamwhoIsayIam]

Our kitchen is relatively small, the dishwasher is next to the sink.

Our utility room is relatively large so thinking of putting the dishwasher next to the washing machine in the utility which also has a big commercial kitchen style sink with spray hose which is much better for washing up than the fancy Belfast sink in the kitchen which marks and I worry about breaking glasses in.

Would it annoy you to have to take all your washing-up through to the utility room or would you enjoy a washing-up free kitchen/diner because everything was out of sight?

we rent it as a holiday cottage when we aren't living in it - hence broader question than just whether I like it or not!

I think it would be really annoying, & I'm not that fussy generally

Can you make space for it in the kitchen by moving other things into utility.. eg fridge, food or plate storage...?

Is there the space to put a compact dishwasher in the kitchen and a larger one in the utility? That's what we did in one house we had.

I can see that being a nuisance with a kitchen diner, maybe not so much if there was a separate dining room and/or all the crockery/etc was in the utility with the dishwasher.

Too much trailing to and fro for my liking.

Our dishwasher is in the utility. Works fine.

I'd hate it. Unless all your crockery was stored in the utility as well. I'd hate cooking and then having to carry the pots in, and unstacking it would also give me rage.

However you can't swing a cat in my kitchen at the moment so I'm practically stationary unloading the dishwasher

depends how close everything is, but probably it would annoy me.

I'd rather have a mini dishwasher in the kitchen than a big one further away. especially when emptying it.

How big are people's houses that unloading the dishwasher from the utility into the kitchen is such a major hassle!! It takes less than 5 minutes to unload mine.

Interesting. Thanks. The moving around to put things away wouldn't bother me.

But thanks to the thoughts on here I am going to leave dishwasher in kitchen till we build extension for dining room. The utility window which is now external will be the end wall of the dining room. Instead of closing it up I'm going to make an old-fashioned serving hatch out of it so we can put washing up from dinner straight into utility room and into the dishwasher . I've got an old family welsh-dresser to put in the new dining room for crockery so we can by-pass the kitchen altogether.

Had it before. Never bothered me, even with walking from dining room to kitchen to utility room.

I prefer all noisy appliances to be somewhere away from living areas (which is why I don't like dining/kitchens... I hate extractor fan noise!)

I suppose actually it depends, on where the utility is, is it a part of the kitchen walled off like a pantry or is it a separate room. For the utilities I'm thinking you basically have to leave the kitchen to get to it

We rented a holiday home with dishwasher in the utility room, it was fine, not annoying.

We had this in our last house and once I'd got used to it I liked it because all the mess was in one place out of sight - so dishes soaking, stuff waiting to be loaded into the dishwasher, all that was in the utility and I could clear up the kitchen itself. As pp have said, you then have all the noisy machines in one place doing their stuff.

I'd rather move a freezer into a utility than lose a dishwasher, on the basis that a freezer is opened less frequently than a fridge.

I'd love it. I'd love not to have any dirty or drying dishes in my kitchen

I'd hate it.
I don't want my holiday to be harder work than home.

I would love it, I wanted to do it when we did a kitchen upgrade, but it was a line in the sand for DH. I said it would mean no dirty dishes ever in the kitchen. Still a no from him.

@alloverthecarpetagain

We had this in our last house and once I'd got used to it I liked it because all the mess was in one place out of sight - so dishes soaking, stuff waiting to be loaded into the dishwasher, all that was in the utility and I could clear up the kitchen itself. As pp have said, you then have all the noisy machines in one place doing their stuff.

This is my view point. At the moment when I am eating at the table I can see the dirty dishes in the sink and plates on top of the dishwasher (WHY can people never put them straight in?)

Had this in a holiday cottage we rented once. I hated it... Felt like such a faff. My kitchen at home is set up so dishwasher is near cupboards for plates, cups etc for a reason

Weve got this now and its great - really doesnt take any extra time to walk 3-4 steps further into another room!

Yes it would bother me. I want all the things that would be in it to be on hand when cooking and prepping meals. I think I would rather that other things from the kitchen would be relocated to the utility - food cupboard, bulky machines, etc.

When we had this, we experimented with also keeping all the everyday cups, dishes and saucepans in the utility as well so you unloaded the dishwasher to a nearby shelf, but that was a rubbish idea. Much easier to do the (very small amount) of legwork unloading to somewhere handy in the kitchen.

Our dishwasher is about 15ft away from our sink and cooking space, at the other side of the room. It's an absolute bastard to carry all the pots across the room every time you need to load or empty it. Our last house had one next to the sink and it was so much better. A dishwasher in a utility room would be a pain in the arse.

@IamwhoIsayIam when you do your extension have 2 dishwashers then you never have to really unload much of it anyway!