A Faucet Worth the Price
Monday, March 1st, 2010
We recently took a drive up to Kohler, WI, and toured the Kohler Design Center.
If you’re ever in the area, stop in for a few hours of browsing and dreaming. The designer rooms are so beautiful. Each time we visit, we come away with great ideas for our kitchen and bathroom projects. Best of all, it’s free.
While perusing the faucet displays, we came across the Vinnata K-690, which is the one we bought for our kitchen two years ago. The display model was in a brushed bronze finish with a list price of $842.
My husband cringed, “Is that how much we paid for ours?”
Of the many purchases we made for our kitchen, a sink faucet was something we felt warranted extra investment. Everything we read discouraged scrimping, considering how much a faucet is used on a daily basis.
But $800?
Well, actually, we didn’t spend that much. For one thing, ours is the polished chrome, which automatically runs less. Secondly, we special ordered it from Home Depot for $389 along with the Kohler soap dispenser for $42.
We love the faucet. (The soap dispenser looks really cute, functions so-so.)
When I initially pulled the faucet out of the box, I was a bit hesitant by its size. It’s a high arc and stands 16 inches tall. And because the neck of the faucet houses a pulldown sprayhead hose, it’s about 1-1/4 inches in diameter. It’s really a big, heavy faucet.
But it didn’t take long for me to really appreciate the clearance and reach of this thing. Not only is the pulldown sprayhead totally handy, it has two spray options—solid stream or aerated low-flow.
My husband liked it because with the single-control faucet, it was easy to install. We also had the choice of putting the hot-cold handle on either the right or left side of the faucet.
So, we’ve been using this faucet now for two years. Functionally, it works super. Form, it looks really cool.
Good choice.