What's Above Your Sink?

i am SOOOO spoiled by the window! i'd have a hard time ever doing dishes again without a window on the world!
the window ledge holds some crystals and knick-knacks.
my favorite aunt's house doesn't have a window over the sink, but there's an opening to the living room so you can watch tv while you do the dishes. she keeps pretty potted plants there.
:) khairete
S.

Nothing above my sink...that part of my kitchen is designed to look out onto the family room so when I'm washing dishes I can visit easily with everyone in there.

a big hole in the wall, so I can see the living room :)

A window! Everyone should have a window over the sink. (That is, if your house is nearly 100 and not an open-plan design.) And a bunch of tchokes (seashells, glass birds, neat rocks, fossilized shells, a timer, and a bell, a vase of daisies Kiddo picked for me the other day)... I love pretty little mementos.

I also have a piece of stained glass hanging in the top part, too... a poem about friendship, writing poetry and mosquitoes with some art on it too.

I have a 'witch ball' hanging above my kitchen sink.

A bar height counter and a pendant light. Across from that (I guess behind it, if you are standing at the sink?) is a bay window overlooking the screened pool area.

two cabinets over stuffed with children NO TOUCHES :)

A lighted shelf. I'm sure it's for decor-and I do try to use it for that. However, it tends to be a junk shelf. Daily you can find all the kids vitamins, spare change, if someone is under the weather there is medicine and cough drops, coffee filters, glasses (kids), and pencils and pens. I gave up reminding everyone where the proper places are and just return them to their homes at the end of the day. Otherwise it's "MOM where is my XXXX???? I left it on the shelf!!!!"
There are pretty glasses on the shelf and it's lighted. You cant see that often behind the chaos!

A breakfast bar. Our kitchen and hearth room are attached, so the sink faces out towards the kitchen table and the hearth area.

A cabinet and a window which tends to become a catch-all.

2 of our houses (currently rental properties, but we lived in each house 2 years before renting them out) are open floor plan, with the bar right above/behind the sink, looking out at the living room. One of those houses has windows and glass doors all along one side of the living room, so I could look into the backyard easily, or talk to whoever was in the living room. The house we're currently in, a window to the backyard is above my sink, but I'm short so it doesn't do much good for anything but letting natural light in.

We actually just finished a tile backsplash behind the sink. It is a square of herringbone subway tile, outlined by two small rows of crushed glass tile. Above that is a light and two upper cabinets that I keep specialty bakeware in. Before we re-did the kitchen there was a hideous tile picture of a basket of fruit. I looked at it every day for a decade and do not miss it!

There is a light above my sink, the window is behind the sink. :)

The breakfast bar is above the sink, and it opens out to the dining room. Thankfully the sink faces the sliding door to the patio, and we have a great view of the protected wet lands out there so its *almost* like having a window :)

A light. I live in an apartment so above my sink is just a light and the wall. It's boring.

No window. There's a wall, and I have the paper towel rack, a decorative plates, and a saying about Mean Old Mothers hung on it.

we have a wall with a cabnet. I would love a window someday :)

I have a large candle that is inside some sort of glass container and is held on the wall by a wrought iron fixture. It looks nice when the candle is burning but I seldom burn it unless we have company.

Cabinets. We've got a galley kitchen. The window is on one end between the double oven and the stove. Thankfully we have and make use of the dishwasher. A few pots and pans might need a bit of a rinse on occassion so we aren't spending ages staring at a "blank wall."

Love reading other people's responses.
F. B.

Cabinets and a light. Then above the cabinet is a picture.

Cabinets and a light