In my previous house, I replaced my double sink with a Corian sink, because I remodeled the kitchen, installed Corian, wanted the Corian sink, and Corian sinks were only single, and besides I installed a dishwasher as well. While it looked awesome as hell (and was too rich for that neighborhood), I hated-hated-hated that decision. Thing is, when cooking for two, we never really used the dishwasher. It was just easier and faster to wash in the sink. But without running the water all the time, the single sink didn’t give me that option.
In my current house when I redid the kitchen, I used real stone, so a Corian sink wasn’t an option, but I sure as hell picked the largest, unequal double sink that I could find. (And also the not-oft-used dishwasher.)
Hey, sometimes when you spring for the 20HP chip-o-matic garbage disposal, you want to see what it can really handle. They say the spray nozzle makes clean-up a breeze…
Me too, from the age of 11 until we moved when I was 18. If you ever have to hand wash dishes, a single sink sucks much worse than a double one. You need a basin for rinse water, a place to put it…sucks.
forgive me if this is a hijack, but to me the bigger question is why would anyone want a double sink in their bathroom? I am married and can’t think of a single time when it would have been convenient for my wife and myself to brush our teeth together. Yet they are quite common in bathroom fixture stores I have visited…
We just moved from a double sink apartment to a single sink one. Until we came to the new apartment, I never thought about it. Now, there’s never any room to do anything in the sink. It’s hard to even get a cup under the faucet without touching the dirty dishes.
I love double sinks, but only because they are easier and more efficient to use for washing - I wash all my dishes by hand currently. If you don’t wash in it and can’t think of another use, just get a single.
Not everything can or should be washed in the dishwasher, which is why I insist upon a double sink. I have Calphalon pans that must be hand-washed, as well as expensive knives. I’ve had single sinks before and they’re horrible. Hate them. In some newly remoded kitchens I’ve seen giant single sinks that look big enough to bathe a golden retriever in. Explain this to me please.
They aren’t so you can brush your teeth together, they are so you can have your crap around one and she can have her crap around the other (and leave curling irons and other knick knacks in the sink without getting yelled at because now you can’t use it)
I’m a renter with a double sink & no dishwasher. So I use a plastic “tub” in one side to soak the dishes in soapy water. Then scrub & rinse them on the other side under running water. The plastic tub would fit just as neatly into a big sink, still leaving extra space to scrub & rinse the dishes. Or remove the tub & have a big sink!
I saw that Ikea theoretically has a farmhouse sink… but it’s not on the US webpage. There seems to be some online discussion as to whether it’s available or not. Grr.
I don’t have a dishwasher, so all my dishes are washed by hand. I do have an old farmhouse and I like the look of a farmhouse sink, but in stone or porcelain, not stainless. Stainless doesn’t look farmhouse-y, it looks industrial. That being said, when I had a porcelain sink, it was very hard to keep it unstained. So I stick with my stainless extra-deep double sink that I got at the Habitat for Humanity store for $15.
I haven’t been to Ikea lately, but when I was there a couple years ago, they had them, Zsofia. They had some ultra mini-size, if I recall, for really tiny kitchens, too, as well as some farmhousie looking sinks for the bathroom.
Regarding the two sinks in the master bathroom — my husband and I get ready at the same time and it would be hell if we had to share sink/mirror space! He can shave, I can apply makeup, curl my hair and otherwise beautify. It’s heaven.
That’s right - I have a nice new set of non-stick frying pans, and I’m babying those suckers to make the Teflon last as long as possible.
It might make a difference how often you run the dishwasher, too - for just me and my husband, we run it about once a week. I wash pots and pans just about every day because I keep re-using them for cooking.
I have now fallen in love with the Ikea single bowl farmhouse sink and this gorgeous Brizo faucet that looks like a flower… so does anybody know if it’s a big thing to move a dishwasher if you just have to move it six inches to the left?
I don’t have a garbage disposal or a dishwasher. I hate my single sink. We used to have a double sink on the farm and it rocked.
Double sinks are awesome for tagteaming dishes. One person washes the dishes on one side, passes them on to the second side where the dryer picks them up. It’d be too complicated in a single sink because you couldn’t move the rinsed dishes to the other side.
I’ve never known anything but a double sink, so I can’t argue against it. When I remodeled my kitchen (~8 years ago) I practically LIVED at gardenweb. I chose the biggest double sink I could find. The side with the garbage disposal is big & deep, and the other side is still roomy but not as big & not as deep. Works out great. I wash on the disposal side, move the dishes over to the other side for rinsing & drying.
I have a dishwasher, but it’s just me & the hubby, so we don’t run it that often, usually only when we have company. Or once on the weekend.
I agree with those who say that some things HAVE to be hand washed. Wine glasses, the occasional pot or pan, knives, etc.
