Italian ingenuity often has to extend to making appliances work. Here a broom handle is used to keep the oven on.
But it wasn't the only use we found for broom handles.
Below, the only way we found to keep the washing machine door shut:
Needless to say neither the stove (which was in a friend's apartment) nor the washing machine would work without these tricks.
And finally, maybe not crucial - unless you don't want to put dishes away with one hand while the other holds the cabinet door open - our solution to a sky drain door that wouldn't stay up:
We are fans of the sky drain - Italians way of drying dishes. We wish American kitchen designers would use them, though Americans are addicted to electric dishwashers.
We don't think we're dissing Italian products by saying that often design trumps utility, though these aren't the coolest designs we've seen. Just routine appliances that don't quite work.
BTW, don't expect the Airbnb host to tell you how to solve these problems - just look for the broomstick in the closet.
Dianne
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