Oh pshaw, on Sun 18 Nov 2007 03:49:27p, Dee.Dee meant to say...


"KLS" wrote in message
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So, which do people think will "sell" a kitchen better: a nice white
Kohler porcelain double bowl sink or a stainless steel double bowl
sink? We're going to replace the counters and base cabinets and are
debating whether to recycle the Kohler we have now, which is a great
sink but does require work to keep spotless, or change it out for
stainless, which I worry will look too rental-unit-ish. I think we'll
be installing white subway tile on the backsplash wall in front of
that sink, which ought to look nice. What does the cohort think?


You can't please everyone, you know that. Having said that, I will give
you my answer.

I think porcelain is beautiful. I've had procelain (a double sink) in a
kitchen. When we redid the kitchen counters, we replaced it with
stainless (in 1993.)

Another house - the one we live in now: We had a ss sink. When we
replaced the countertops a few months ago, we replaced the ss sink with
ss, but it is mounted underneath the counter. I prefer it. I wouldn't
fear that it will look rental-unit-ish. But that's just me -- I've not
been in rental places for years, except for f-i-l's expensive apartment
senior living, which has a top mounted ss.

I think it will depend on how up-scale your house now looks.

Dee Dee




We all have our preferences, as we all should, but I think stainlses steel
in a kitchen is very clinical looking. Having said that, I have a SS sink
myself. When we bought this house there was a choice of SS or white
porcelain, which I clearly didn't want.

If I had my druthers, I'd have either a black porcelain undermount sink or
a soapstone sink.

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