PrettyUglyFaucet
August 16th, 2006 by Jon
Well, may as well start with today. Donna and I are engaged in the long, slow simmer of a DIY kitchen remodel. If we were making stock it would be around three in the morning, when you wake up to go to the bathroom and find the house permeated with overwhelming smells of chicken and celery, and know that going back to sleep despite the meaty aromas will be unsettlingly strange. Our house is like that, only the chicken and celery are drywall dust and polyurethane, and the kitchen’s been simmering for well over a year.
I’m obsessing over which faucet to use. It’s largely the fault of ebay and its opportunities to buy obscure luxury goods on the cheap and resell them if they disappoint. I bought a Grohe Eurostyle and installed it when the sink became functional sometime in January, I think. It’s a nice faucet, very clean, very simple and modern. Donna loves it.
But…
It doesn’t have a spray function. After an exhaustive search I landed on the Hamat Ergo. Donna instantly dismissed it. I kept looking at it anyhow. I printed a life-size image of it, cut it out and held it up at our sink, trying to picture the real thing. Donna grabbed the mockup when my back was turned and wrote PrettyUglyFaucets.com across the back.
I bought one anyhow.
“That thing looks like it could eat me,” she said.
I installed it anyhow, this afternoon.
And I have to agree that the Eurostyle looked better in our space. I don’t have to make a final decision just yet, though. That can wait until it’s time to cast the concrete counters this weekend, which gives me three more days to be indecisive.
