Our new faucet arrived today. It was intact, matched the (different brand) soap dispenser and, astonishingly, I think we will actually be able to open the shutters over it. Oh, did I mention that we can’t open our fabulous new shutters because our current faucet is too tall? The woman who measured for the shutters told us this might be a problem, what she didn’t mention is that we could have ordered bi-fold shutters in order to avoid this issue. The installer brought that up as he hung them. Gee, thanks for the timely information.
We also went out looking at sinks today. The store we visited didn’t carry the brand of cast iron sink I was looking at, but they did have sample colors for the Blanco composite granite sinks. So, what do you know, we decided to order that in a tan color. It’s sort of a lighter version of our wall color. One of the designers there tried to talk us into dark grey, but I am not going down that road again. Plus, it just adds another color to the black/white/red/tan scheme we currently have. I just can’t go there.
They didn’t have stock in the exact sink we had ordered online (the not white, white one) and it would take too long to order it, but they did have a nearly identical model. Which happened to be cheaper. So, hey, some good news. Unfortunately I now have to return the stainless steel sink grids I ordered (which are still in transit) as well as the white white drain. During the return process I realized that the only reason I wasn’t charged shipping on the sink is because it was damaged. I will have to pay return shipping on the other items. Shit.
But at least we now have all of the necessary pieces either on hand or in transit. We just have to pick up the sink tomorrow and bring it to the fabricator. Hopefully this all looks good when we put it all together. Sort of a major pain just to take care of a dripping faucet and a scratched sink. But only a small taste of what awaits us on the new house build.