Sink and taps

[Now we're 3]

Just curious before today I had no idea how much sinks or kitchen taps actually cost.
We are a thte decision making end of new kitchen design and curious to find out from people who have decorated kitchens recently


How much did people pay for their sink and their taps/mixer?
Did you go for undermount or above mount? and why?
What make did you go for?

There must be hundreds of different options out there .......... and here was silly old me thinking this was the easy part!

[LuluHB]

I have two under mount square sinks that are separate, so there's a strip of stone bench between them. I also have an undermount draining board. In a previous kitchen I didn't have a draining board and it drove me nuts so there is no way I would ever be without one again.

I chose my sinks because they are very deep and wide - big enough that I can easily get oven trays in etc. Again, I've had a piddly little sink that I had to dip a corner of an oven tray into and it was awful. I went with undermounts because I really wanted clean lines

My mixer has the extendable/pull out hose bit, but you wouldn't know it by looking at it - its very slimline. My DH hates the chunky look of the more industrial sort of "stretchy" hoses and given that he completely let the kitchen up to me except for this one thing, it wasn't a big deal.

My sinks are made by Franke and the tap is Gesse - the one they use on Masterchef. The sinks were pretty exxy (about $1,500 all up for the three components), but I had chosen a cheaper option sink but the supplier stuffed us around so badly with delays and TBH I was at the point of just thinking F it. I just want my kitchen finished, so I went with the Franke ones because they were the look, size and shape I wanted. It was also hard to get one with matching undermount draining boards.

The tap was about $2K I think. Its a ridiculous price for a tap, but I've got a very high end kitchen so it was an appropriate choice ITMS.

We did our entire house a couple of years ago and I was stunned at the price of some things. I remember a beautiful black and chrome shower head on a rail with a hand shower thingy that was $40,000. Needless to say, I didn't buy that one!

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