ILiftMyLamp's Profile

A small place with two older people has little need for a dishwasher, living in a small 150-yr-old home there's not really any room for one.
I seem to wash a lot of dishes... we rarely get "take out" and seldom dine out, we cook from scratch... so I'm constantly washing things that we use often.
I wash in a small plastic basin in the sink, rinse in running water, then drip/air-dry in a rack.
Big items drain only briefly, then get toweled dry and stowed away (so they don't get in the way).

We have a sink in a small pantry next to the kitchen, with a dish rack on a drainboard emptying into the sink. Since I'm always washing as I go, the dish rack is always there... I could hang it on a hook, but 5 minutes later I'd have to take it down again.
The dish rack is well-designed, manufactured of good steel with a heavy rubber coating (to deter chipping and breakage)... about 33 years ago by the Rubbermaid® company. It's the color of green florist's clay.
It is accompanied by a matching rubber-coated "sink rack" that goes in the bottom of the sink to (again, to protect things from breakage).
The matching Rubbermaid basin disappeared years ago, and they no longer make them in that ('70s) shade of green, so I now use a white basin which matches the color of the enamel sink.)

I'd say our system is utilitarian, functional and hygienic... but it isn't particularly aesthetic... none of the process is hidden!