DIY & Home Improvement

It's an older home, built in 1951 as part of a small group of Army tract homes in this neighborhood. It has been modified by various owners over the years, expanded, added onto, etc., until it has become something unique. (That is true of each of these older tract homes in this neighborhood.) That hallway you can see in the last pic is really cool. It is in a "C" shape with angled walls. You can't see the bedroom we use as an office at all until you go back there, which makes it like a "secret" room. On the other side of the angled wall to the left is a corner-angled built-in bookcase in the living room. The family room was added on, and the wall backing the kitchen (and office) is old-brick, with a matching old-brick fireplace. The attic has four rooms in a cross shape with angled ceilings and little octagon windows with etched glass that open up. One of the rooms up there is a full bath, too, so the house actually has 3 full baths. I knew when I walked in that this was IT. We were looking for something older with character and it was exactly that. The potential was just so obvious. We've tried to keep with the spirit of the place mixing old and new.

And you know... I'm thinking we can pull it off with that stainless steel sink we all looked at above. That old + new eclecticism will work for us with this sink. All we will need to do is find some decorative items that incorporate copper with any silver-toned metal. Copper + pewter... copper + silver... copper + stainless steel. One decorative piece as a focal point in the shelves above the sink would pull it all together. The wooden cutting board works to "warm up" the sink, too. I played around last night and did a rough photoshop of the kitchen with that sink, which was very encouraging. I actually liked it better than any of the other sinks.

It has a lot of advantages, even with the raise in price. The items it comes with are worth a lot of money in themselves. Try to buy a cutting board or a colander for any of the other sinks, and you're looking at sinking another couple hundred bucks, and the smaller sink is something I have yet to see with any of the other single bowl sinks I've considered. It also has the advantage of being appealing to buyers, should we ever decide to sell this house (or my daughter after us). It would appeal to buyers in a way that a composite or a colored cast iron sink probably would not, or even a single bowl sink without all the nifty gadgets it comes with. So yeah, I think we're gonna do that one. Aesthetically, we'll MAKE it work. It's just too cool to pass up.