a little kitchen sink re-do

The day before Christmas Eve, my dad, my love, and I brilliantly decided to tackle a project I had been so looking forward to doing for months--replace the kitchen sink.

Some of you are probably thinking, "Why? Your house isn't even three years old yet."

Which is quite true. So here's why.

When I flew out to the "builder home store" to pick out our options, I was by myself. My love had to stay back and continue his training many hundreds of miles away. Since it was just me and buying a house is already expensive and picking out all those options was adding up to...lets just say that I was overwhelmed and put a stop to the spending and said "no" to the measley $200 option to install an undermounted sink that is ever so popular now and looks sleek. I'd been kicking myself on that practically since the dust settled on our unpacked broken down boxes.

Anyway, we felt that the nice kitchen that we have didn't really shine to its fullest potential with its current plain-Jane drop-in stainless steel sink and faucet and since its much too late to put in an undermounted sink, we went a different route.

We installed a cast iron sink. And let me tell ya, that baby is HEAVY. The box even says, 75+ pounds. At first we mis-read the box and thought it just said 75 pounds. But the more we messed with moving it from the store into the car, the car into the house, etc. the more we were convinced it weighed considerably more. That's when we discovered the "+" symbol next to the 75.

Surprisingly the whole project wasn't overly difficult and quite smooth...maybe a little too easy as we had one minor issue that is still waiting to get fixed.

But the sink looks great and we had an added and unexpected bonus of the sink being deeper than the previous one.

Oh, and we added a new and fancy schmancy faucet. Seriously, I love it. It's fun, cool, and quite handy. :)

Here's hoping our kitchen will knock the socks off some potential home buyer and help sway a ringing sale in our near future--when the house goes on the market.

Sigh...I can hope...and pray...and cross my fingers...and keep the house as spotlessly clean as I can with a toddler who's mission in life is to create a mess just for the sake of it and two pups who shed like mad. Sigh...

So what do ya'll think? Would you buy our house just for the sake of our beautiful new sink and its fun faucet? It's a deep sink! I promise! ;o)