Draining Board -- Left or Right of the sink

chalky_75

Help please.

Kitchen being installed as I type. Cant decide whether to put the draining baord on the left or fright of a single dropped sink. It is actually an integral grooved drainer carved in the silestone.

silvercar

Generally, right handed people would hold a dish in their left hand and clean it with their right. So the logic is that you place the drainer on the left of the sink as that is nearest your left hand.

jockster211

I think if you're right-handed then a rhs drainer is easier to work with. If you're a leftie then a lhs drainer seems to work better.

After that its just what makes it aesthetically more pleasing.

Jockster

andrew-b

Most i've seen have been on the left i think. I'm a leftie and get on with it ok on the left - though i'm fairly ambidextrous as i write with left but everything else i'm right handed for!! I guess it also depends on space too.. even if we'd wanted to we couldnt have had ours the other way round as our tumble drier has to go underneath the drainer side of ours. Either way make sure the sink unit isn't too small - Wickes messed up our design and didn't tell us our sink wouldn't fit into the 500mm base unit so the fitters had to route out the sides of the cabinet to make it fit!

Errata

I'm right handed and my DB is on the right. Total pain in the backside - left is best :j

latecomer

I'm right handed and I'd say left too....

PasturesNew

I'd say: if you don't know then just copy what you've got at the moment. Whatever you have at the moment obviously isn't annoying you enough for you to have formed an opinion. However, if you do change to the opposite side now, you might find you suddenly find that annoying and wish you'd left it as it is.

The other side MIGHT be better, but there's a risk attached to establishing that. So I'd stick with what I had now if I hadn't even given it a second thought until now.

Traveller1981

Im right handed and mine is on the right, and yes it is a pain. Last place was on the left, much better for a righty.

diamondgirl78

I'm right handed and I prefer my draining board as it is, on the right. Some deep-seated 'go from left to right' OCD syndrome methinks!

lagi

I'm a leftie and i prefer it on the left. Also with my kitchen layout to have it on the right would be over the window. I would rather have the light doing the washing up.

Miss_Liquorice

I'm a rightie - at my parents home, the drainer is on the left, and it's only now I've read this I realised why washing dishes irritates me at my flat - the drainer is on the right! Heh.

Let us know what you went for in the end