I recently had an unfortunate incident in my kitchen involving some hot water, basin sinks, and my house flooding. Well, it's not quite that bad but I did need to replace my sink, which had oddly cracked and was leaking into the cabinet underneath. I'm not sure how that happened but it's really, really old so I guess these things just happen sometimes. The really frustrating part is finding a replacement. I had never really thought about it but not all kitchen sinks are the same size and mine was apparently a particularly rare size, on account of being so old I imagine.
So I was looking online, because I figured that would be the best way to see the most sinks in the least amount of time, and it's still not making my life any easier. I'd seen basin sinks with soap dispensers built in before, but there are ones with multiple faucets, double-sink, deep sinks, shallow sinks, one sink, two sink, red sink, blue sink. I just wanted to beat my head against the wall. Wouldn't it be nice to just be able to say to somebody: Fix that. For that reason I wish I was still renting. Then it would be the landlord's problem.
Eventually I was able to find something that fit and had the correct number of faucets (one) as well as not costing me an arm and a leg (just an arm) and doesn't look too terrible. Unfortunately I discovered that "doesn't look too terrible" isn't a visual standard my wife finds acceptable, but my thinking was: it's a kitchen sink, who cares? As long as you can pile dishes really high in it and the water drains out into the sewer instead of the basement then that should be scored as a win in my book.
On ebay I actually saw someone had custom made a spider man sink that I'm pretty sure would have fit. I guess I'm lucky I didn't get that or the wife would be even more upset than she is now. For the time being at least, she'll just have to live with the Flintstones. Just kidding, there are no cartoon characters on the kitchen sink I purchased. It is, however, a particularly ugly shade of gray. I'm wondering if some rust-oleum paint would do the job or if I'm just stuck with it. In any case don't underestimate the difficulty involved in picking out basin sinks, it's not as easy as it should be.
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