Installing a vessel faucet

If you decide that a new vanity is the best option for your bathroom, the next step is determining the style. Most home improvement stores will offer traditional cabinets and countertops for fast and easy installation. If you want something a bit more modern, consider a floating or wall-mount vanity.

Instead of resting on the floor, floating vanities are mounted to the wall, offering a unique blend of trendy style and functionality. For a low-cost unique look, consider recycling old furniture, especially dressers, to support your vessel sink. To modify a dresser, you will need to reduce the depth of the top drawers to accommodate the plumbing and drill a drain and faucet hole. With some patience, a little time, and some basic carpentry skills, you could make a one-of-a-kind vanity that is guaranteed to turn heads.

Now, the exciting part: choosing the vessel sink that will adorn your new or repurposed vanity! Kraus has a breathtaking array of styles and materials that will give you that perfect look. If you're unsure of what style will fit your bathroom the best, the Viva collection offers a variety of designs, from contemporary geometric shapes and textured exteriors, to smooth sweeping patterns. With a Natura sink, you get the benefits of a cutting-edge mineral composite enhanced with nanotechnology , creating a luxurious matte surface that is impervious to stains and cracks.

Contemporary silhouettes with refined edges will give your bathroom a luminous modern look. To accommodate the height of your new vessel sink, you will likely need to install a new faucet. Kraus has meticulously designed several collections of faucets that will seamlessly match your vessel sink. With a clean minimalist design, these faucets radiate a bright and uncluttered look in any bathroom. An arched spout and a gracefully curved single handle creates a timeless appearance.

With you blog, website, he is no longer scared to hand over the screwdriver to me! We really need to get a new faucet mine is leaky and does not work well thanks for the great tutorial.

Your tutorial is great, your girls are darling, and. This sleek faucet is just what the Dr. Love your blog and your babies! I could use the faucet for the new house we just bought. We are a newlywed couple with now zero money.

Not complaining. Your tutorial is awesome! We would like to win because we are so proud that another young couple from Iowa like us! AND we currently have the same disgusting faucet in our bathroom as you took out. LOL Winning would help out a lot as we save to update our bathroom. And now we can install ourselves since you just taught us how. I would rather see a tutorial then read a no picture directions that come with the products.

Very good tutorial! I would love love love this faucet! Your tutorial really is so easy; thanks much! Really, what can be better than that? Thanks for the give away. I need this faucet! My current faucet is so old and gross looking. This one would bring some much-needed updating to my kitchen! My kitchen faucet was a reject one that I got on discount, seemed like a good idea at the time. Thanks for the giveaway! I would love to have this faucet!

Grrr… that darn sprayer! Your lovely ladies are sooo adorable I wish I had two of my own! I am in the middle of a renovation, sink is the next thing on the list. I would love to have a beautiful new faucet.

Love your blog! Ok- this tutorial looks manageable, I LOVE your children have a daughter just a month older who looks like one of yours , and I would appreciate this sink for use whenver we move into our own house a quadzillion years into the future. Thanks for your great blog! We need a new kitchen faucet soo bad I replaced the parts inside the handles and that stopped that leak and now its leaking from the stem!

We are building a new house soon and would love to have this for our new kitchen! Great tutorial! We are moving soon and I think this faucet would look great in our new kitchen!

I found your blog through my sister-in-law and I love hearing about your home and your babies :. I thought I would tell you jut what you want to hear today! Your tutorial is sooo easy! Your little offsprings are to die for cutie pies, and I have been living with a broken kitchen faucet since June, so I would love to win this! BTW, I recently finished my faux painted subway tile backsplash in my kitchen, and I got the whole inspiration from you guys!

I will send you guys some pictures! Our kitchen faucet…. We just bought our first home! I think our kitchen faucet could use an upgrade! First of all, I love your entire page, but especially your tutorials, like the one above, because they are so clear and thorough unlike some other pages. Your daughters are actually only a few months older than my baby girl, and I LOVE to look at all of your pictures, and all of your different posts about them, you seem like a super great momma!

I love all of your tutorials, they are easy to follow and you take the time to photograph along the way! The ONLY thing missing from your tutorial posts are pics of your little darlings. Good thing you make up for it with camera dumps and monthly letters. My husband and I have been working on our kitchen for almost a year. We need a new faucet because we are house shopping and looking at fixer-uppers. I love retro, but………..

Great tutorial Nick! I need that faucet because I love having a sprayer, but am DONE with the poor quality of the separate sprayers available. Plus, that faucet is gorgeous — as is the new one in your bath! Your tutorials are always great, the pics and explanations are very easy to follow.

I have needed a new faucet for some time now so this giveaway comes at a great time. So I am going to pray real hard until the giveaway is over. LOL Thanks for the chance. What a super tutorial!! We could use fabulous faucet to replace the one that keeps leaking in our kitchen. Thanks for the opportunity. Maybe with the tutorial my husband and I could manage to change a faucet—we have a couple that need done! I could use this faucet because my current one is a disgusting leaky mess. Your tutorial actually makes me think that I could install a faucet!

Anyway, I would love to win this faucet. But now, after seeing your tutorial, I may just have to do it myself! Worst case scenario, I mess it up, have to brush my teeth in the kitchen sink, and can guilt my brother into finally installing it for me and maybe the new toilet guts, too… and the showerhead…. As for that absolutely gorgeous faucet, well… my kitchen sink is very similar to my bathroom sink the faucet itself is a little longer , and the sprayer has never worked.

My kitchen is pretty outdated, and a new faucet could be the kick-start I need. AND your babbies are sooo beautiful!! Too much flattery?? I already follow you two on the FaceBook. I would love to use that faucet in the house I hope to build in the next year!! It would be awesomeness! My kitchen faucet is broken and it leaks! Help me! Are you serious!

Ha ha I have a handy man over right now putting in my new kitchen faucet that looks very similar to the one you are giving away and to kill time I decided to read your blog, up pops this entry, how crazy is that.

If only this had came a week earlier, I could have had me a free faucet and a tutorial on how to put it in. Love your blog, the girls are getting so big.

I only wish you lived closer so you could paint my backsplash. Our bathroom faucet looks just like the one you pulled out. Long live the 80s. Just bought the house and would love to be able to put in a shiney new one and send the old one to faucet graveyard.

Your tutorials are not only easy, they are fun to read. That is a very hard accomplishment! I am planning on renovating our tiny master bath and that would include a new sink, but I really want to get the best faucets possible.

Our home was built in and I believe most of the faucets were the originals. They were by Moen and were still in very good shape! Quality is very important and and Moen seems to fit that requirement! Your tutorials are great and I enjoy seeing you transform your home. We just moved into our second home and the kitchen sink and appliances definitely need updating! Like Save. Related Discussions height of wall mounted faucet with vessel sink? Here's a picture, to show you what I mean by a vessel with a deck Height of wall faucet over vessel sink Q.

I believe it's recommended for the spout to be " over the bottom of the vessel sink. Upgrade the mirror , I see medicine cabinets ripped out everyday for a beautiful replacement mirror to be installed. Mydream, that was very helpful, thanks a bunch! Happy Thanksgiving! Related Stories. Drop-in, undermount, integral or apron-front — a design pro lays out your sink options. This DIY tutorial shows how easy it can be to capture rainwater from your roof to use in your garden later.

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From counter templates to ongoing care, a professional contractor shares what you need to know. Learn all about mounting styles, handles, finishes and quality to get the kitchen faucet that best fits your needs. The major plumbing difference between a standard bathroom sink and a vessel sink is the drain: the plumbing drain for the vessel sink attaches to the p-trap through a hole you drill in the vanity top.

Other than sitting on the top of the vanity, vessel sink plumbing and installation is virtually the same for standard mount sink. Vessel sink vanities may come with a storage drawer just below the vessel sink drain.

Because the sink is sitting on top of the vanity, there is no underhung to collide with extra storage. But even with no sinking popping into the vanity cabinet, a standard p-trap set up may hang too low to take advantage of the extra space. Some manufacturers will include a special low-profile drain that connects to the tail piece of the vessel sink drain. Another special consideration for installing a vessel sink is the faucet.

Because the vessel sink sits on top of the vanity the bowl interferes with typical bathroom sink faucets. In addition to extra height a faucet needs to clear a vessel sink, the spout also needs to extend further into the bowl. The faucets designed for vessel sinks also should have its control lever on top of the faucet or off the back, away from the vessel sink.

Otherwise the sink will cause an interference operating the handle. All major manufacturers offer faucets designed for vessel sinks, though you may not find a great selection at your local hardware store. A custom kitchen and bath store will give you the best selection.

Typically, the top of the vanity for a vessel sink is 36 inches.