At the request of my readers, I have posted in the past about products that make life easier for me (Magic Erasers, makeup removal cloths, and our baby sound machine are some of the most recent ones–I still use all three of those). While washing dishes one day day, I realized that another such item was right in front of my face, something I use many times a day but rarely stop to think about its practicality: our kitchen faucet.
In our first four years of marriage, Mr. Handsome and I have lived in three different homes. The first two were rentals, and this one is our first purchased house. In our first place, we had a small, shallow kitchen sink with an old-style faucet that spun 360 degrees. There was no backsplash, and behind the sink was our living room, so you could technically spin the faucet 180 degrees and release water onto the living room carpet. Not exactly a practical feature, unless perhaps you had a big stain on your carpet that needed to be washed.
In our second apartment, we had the same small sink but with a fancy faucet. Not only did the faucet have a high arch, but it also had a retractable head. It was so incredibly handy for cleaning the sink and filling or washing big pots or buckets that when we started looking for houses, I decided that if our new house didn’t have the same faucet, it would have to be replaced right away.
What are your thoughts on kitchen faucets?
Jessica
We almost have the same facuet. I really like it. We got it a few months ago and before we didn’t have one like that. So, I definitely like it.
Regina Shea
I like faucets that either has a sprayer attached or at least separate. The faucet we have has a high arch and like you mentioned it’s great for buckets and it’s perfect for filling my large buckets and canners.
Lucy
We recently replaced our faucet with a similar looking one. It is high arched and also has a pull down head that doubles as a sprayer. I agree they are much better than the low profile ones, like the one in your first apartment. I wanted a touch-less faucet but saw bad reviews so I went with the regular style.
Ellie
My in-laws have a touchless faucet, and I think they ended up just turning the touchless feature off. They got the hang of it, but it was really hard for guests to figure out. I still don’t understand how to use it. LOL
Eileen
Hi Ellie. I love a pull out/high arch kitchen faucet. Makes everything so much easier and the sprayer feature gets daily use. Would not want to go back to an ordinary style. Have a good day! Eileen
Ellie
Thanks, Eileen! Hope you have a great day, as well!
Ellie
anonymous
My comment will be on topic in a way. I am wondering if you put on garage or yard sales? That is something I would find interesting reading about. This faucet and kitchen sink are nice. I just take what I get. I’ve stayed in a rooming house where the bathtub tap just sputtered out a bit of water at best. It took a long time just to barely get a bit in the tub just about to the sides on the bottom of the tub, not even up the sides at all. I guess the land lord did not want a huge bill for water, so never fixed it.
Ellie
I love going to garage/yard sales, but I haven’t ever done one.
anonymous
That would is something I wish you’d try this summer to document for this blog! It would be an extremely interesting subject. Also if you go out to yard and garage sales, if the people are nice about it, ask if you can take a few pictures and take some of what you buy too. This is always exciting! I think For good reason the good Lord blesses thriftstores and these sales with a special grace that makes people like them a lot!
Anonymous
I have a high arch faucet yes great for filling buckets and pots. We attached a filter system to the faucet so my sprayer is beside it which I use a lot. I use to have shallow sinks but a few years ago we had them replaced with deep sinks which I really like. Jane
Eileen
Good point Jane. We too have deep sinks. I forget they weren’t always like that. Eileen
Lauren
I currently have a delta touch faucet and it’s AMAZING! I can leave the handle the the exact temperature and amount of water that I want, and then touch it to turn on and off. It will also turn off after 2 minutes if you don’t touch it. It also has a light indicator for the temperature of the water. The only thing I don’t like about it was having to disconnect the touch feature during the polar vortex in January. Simple enough once I knew how to do it but it’s just a hassle to clear everything out from under the sink in order to do that.
Ellie
Sounds like you’ve gotten the hang of it! Out of curiosity, why did you have to disconnect the touch feature when it was super cold?
Ellie
Lauren
We had to turn the feature off because of the auto-off feature. That faucet sits on the northwest corner of the house. The waterline runs along the foundation and when it was so cold, we had to keep the water running to prevent a frozen pipe. Wouldn’t have worked too well to have the faucet keep turning off!
Anonymous
Ellie, will you be able to go to grandma Duggars funeral? I hope you could as you know them well I believe!
Ellie
We were not able to attend, but we sent our condolences to the family.
Anonymous
Awww…yes I understand…you can’t go to everything! Thanks for answering my question anyway.
Becki
We have had a high arch retractable sprayer faucet and deep sinks for 10 years and love it! It’s great for filling up big pots and spraying out the sink. We do a lot of canning (both pressure and water bath) and this sink and faucet makes it so much easier. Cleaning is a breeze too!
Anonymous
Hi, Ellie, I was just wondering. When you and hubby purchased your home, why didn’t you do a blog post about it. Most people are excited to purchase their home. Was there a reason why you did not want to share at that time. If you did post and I missed it then I apologize.
Ellie
That’s a good question. Nope you didn’t miss the post. 🙂 I think we were just busy with moving and settling in, so we didn’t get around to it.
Ellie
Anonymous
We recently moved and our new sink is deep and single basin, no sprayer, I really miss my sprayer! Will definitely be on my wish list of upgrades next!