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?

"KLS" suds.com> wrote in message
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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.)

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

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:49:27 -0500, "Dee.Dee" shentel.net>
wrote:

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"KLS" suds.com> wrote in message
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"Dee.Dee" shentel.net> wrote in message

Agree. Aside from some ultra modern industrial looking kitchens, SS does
nothing for me. I'd take a nice white porcelain sink any day and it fits
the style of your home.

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:30:02 -0500, "Dee.Dee" shentel.net> wrote:

I'm not a fan of white anything, but, as others have said, the white porcelain
fits your house's original style. Stainless fits in anywhere, and was quite
popular throughout the seventies, as well.

And to perhaps combine both the old and the new, you could have your original
white porcelain installed underhung in your new counters, gaining 1.5 inches of
depth along the way, which buyers might appreciate.

But there are also quite a number of colors of porcelain available now, Dee. I
still wouldn't swap my Provence Red porcelain-coated cast iron sink for anything
else. Even SWMBO agrees (a miracle!) 8;)

-- Larry

"pltrgyst" spamlessxhost.org> wrote in message
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Sorry to barge in here on the porcelain vs. stainless posting, but I guess
it's just time to get this off my chest ;-))

Oh pshaw, on Mon 19 Nov 2007 08:02:43p, Dee.Dee meant to say...

"Wayne Boatwright" cox.net> wrote in message >

I don't think I wrote about the problems -- if I did, it was minimal and
only at first; I took out most of my frustration by documenting all the
stuff that was going on which I patterned after Larry's documentation. One
good thing I did was to take digital pictures; one in particular of a
(about) 10' piece of countertop which they said they were replacing, but
they brought back the very same one. When I showed them that they brought
back the same on --- stutter, stutter stutter; the excuses were flying!