Stoney sink
I've always wanted a limestone sink. I've seen them in the South of France and have always said if I have a house one day I want one in my kitchen. Well, the price tag has always deterred us from getting one. That and the fact that they weigh a ton.
Two weeks ago we saw a replica of an 18th century limestone sink in Gédimat's garden promotion catalogue. Although designed for a garden it was sold with a cute bronze faucet and sat on two limestone legs. We decided that the price was reasonable enough considering it came with the faucet, so we got very excited and bought it. Very spur of the moment thing. It weighs 1/2 ton. Well maybe I'm exaggerating a teeny bit, but it's a bear to lift.
Seb installed it all on Sunday and guess what. We hate it. It's so heavy that the kitchen floor is almost caving in. Yikes. Besides there's no place to set dishes as you wash up. And its basin is very shallow. Even though we thought it would be okay because the basin is large, it isn't and you get splashed with water as you wash dishes. It's pretty but not very practical. So, I suppose we're going to install a practical sink and put this lovely monster in the garden after all. More money down the drain!
* note picture is not my kitchen, it's from catalogue...dream on!
posted by christine at 10:56 PM
2 Comments:
Don't give up on the sink, you can make a concrete countertop to match it and go buy a dishwasher with the savings! Here are the countertops that I made.
http://www.members.aol.com/_ht_a/
wgnetwork/countertop.html
yes- sometimes don't always work out the way we'd like. I don't know anyone who has a limestone sink-that would be pretty darn unique.
Gary's concrete countertops look great- if you could do that it would be great.
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