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Copper sinks are easy to maintain and they actively kill bacteria

This is the owner of Luxury Home Products.  May I be perfectly candid? I have been a professional kitchen designer for over 25 years and I do not understand why anyone would consider a true custom kitchen without a fitted custom sink. Please allow me to illustrate my point.

• We all know the sink is the most used appliance in the kitchen. We all know that humans come in all sizes. Some are right and some are left handed.

Have you ever experienced a back ache doing the dishes? If so, your sink design is the problem! When spraying off dishes have you ever gotten wet? That too is a design flaw in your sink. You may be too tall or too short for the depth of your current sink. Call us and speak to a specialist and see why our customers would never use an "off-the-shelf" sink again. Hundreds of our customers know why our sinks are different. Discover the difference and get really comfortable in your kitchen for the very first time!

• Most people have a dishwasher and use it to clean all but very large and bulky items.

If the above comment is true, why do we still consider double bowl sinks? They really do not make sense for most of us. The items which do not fit easily in a dishwasher, rarely fit even the large bowl of a double bowl sink. Does it not make sense then, to design a sink which will fit the large items easily? Read more

• Many sinks are designed with the drain in the middle.

Have you ever used a sink where the drain was in the middle? Just place a cookie sheet in the sink or any large item, and watch the sink fill up with water. A center drain is the most ridiculous design idea yet! The drain should be in the rear of the sink, preferably in the right rear corner if the user is right handed, and left rear corner if the user is left handed. Moving the drain allows for a tremendous amount of free space inside the sink. It just makes sense! Now you can put the trash under the sink where it belongs!

The Perfect sink??

I recently designed a new style copper sink for our new kitchen. I recessed the sink cabinet 3" and designed the sink to go to the wall, and up the wall to the bottom of the window sill. The wall area will house our wall mounted faucet. Here are some of the benefits. 

You will be 3 inches closer to the wall mounted faucet - essential for comfort. If you use a sink with a backsplash and do not recess the cabinet, the sink will be very long front to back. This will make the reach to the faucet too long and will likely cause a back ache when doing dishes.

The water, that drips from your hands when they are wet while turning off the water, will drip into the sink... not on the countertop.

The granite (or other) countertop now stops on each side of the sink. This eliminates a weak small strip of granite behind the sink. It may, depending on the layout of the granite, save you from having a seam in your countertop. 

Last, but not least, you will not have to pay for the granite (and waste) that would normally be in the sink area. This could save you hundreds of dollars. Fabricators generally have to cut and polish four interior edges when fabricating an under mount sink installation. In this installation, the right and left edges are treated just like the end of a countertop. Much easier and less costly!

If you are not considering a wall mounted faucet, we can make a deck on the rear of the sink for you to install your faucet. We can make a 4" (or whatever you like) backsplash so you will eliminate the need for granite behind the sink. Please note: this type of sink is difficult to ship. We must send the sink out to be crated in order to prevent damage. There is an extended lead time for sinks with a full splash. 

10-19-00
Dear Luxury Home Products,

I cannot say enough good things about both your products and your customer service.  Our new 33" apron-front copper sink is GORGEOUS.  More importantly, though, my husband and I can't get over your incredible 48-hour turnaround time to replace the sink when UPS damaged it in shipping.  Your extraordinary efforts paid off and enabled us to get our granite countertops installed just under the wire as our installer was leaving tonight on a 2-week vacation.  The kitchen looks beautiful and the sink is absolutely the focal point when you walk in. Thank you, thank you, thank you for helping make a very difficult situation much less stressful.  Your customer focus made all the difference.  We will send you photos once the kitchen is complete. Betsy Z.

I just wanted to add my appreciation of the craftsmanship, responsiveness, even keel and speed.  You guys are terrific!  It would be our pleasure to serve as a reference any time!  Feel free to show this email string to potential clients.  Thanks so much.
Ed Z.

• We make copper sinks of 48 ounce copper. Many manufacturers use 20, 24, and 32 ounce copper for their sinks. The ounce rating is based on the weight of a 12" square sheet of copper. 48 ounce copper is 50% heavier and thicker than 32 ounce copper. Your sink will not easily dent or sag and requires no wooden support.
• Our sinks drain properly - period! We heard, over and over, from kitchen dealer after kitchen dealer at the National Kitchen and Bath show, that the copper sinks they had been purchasing did not drain properly. I wish I had a dollar for each time I heard that complaint!  One kitchen dealer walked into our booth and said "Novel idea... looks like it actually drains". They had purchased a copper apron front sink from another source, installed it for one of their customers and it did not drain properly. The kitchen dealer had to remove the sink, absorb the cost, then had to find a stainless sink to fit in it's place - as they had not heard of us (yet). Due to the heavy gauge of our copper, we can press a shape that flows water to the drain - no matter where we place the drain in the sink.
• Drain location - anywhere! If you are right handed, we suggest a right rear drain. Lefties, a left rear drain. Have one of each - how about a rear center drain. No matter, we are truly custom.
• We copper weld our sinks. Do you know why others use solder? It is simple and fast - most of us have soldered something once or twice -  not really very difficult.  Copper welding requires very expensive equipment and a very skilled welder. Very few metal welders have the ability to weld copper. One mistake and the sink has to be tossed! Make a mistake when soldering, reheat and start again - no problem! A copper weld is stronger and much nicer to look at.
• Lastly, and most important, we understand the ergonomics of sinks. The owner studied and practiced kitchen space design for over 25 years. He has trained the staff at Luxury Home Products to enable them to assist you in designing a COMFORTABLE sink. Unless you have experienced the difference, you can not imagine it. The difference between a custom fitted sink and a stock sink is like the difference between custom fitted orthotics verses and a five dollar shoe insole. For heavens sake, if you are getting a custom kitchen, don't forget the most important detail... a custom sink!