Our kitchen and bathroom sinks are pretty used and abused and we've been thinking about replacing them. We went to Home Depot to look at sinks and faucets - which are fairly expensive, and with our current budget, unaffordable. So we looked into buying a few used sinks. Lucky for us there are several recycled goods stores in the Portland area. There are Tool Libraries where you can borrow practically any household toll you can think of. There's a
ReUse Habitat for Humanity store that was closed this weekend, so we went to the
ReBuilding Center. We found a Kohler cast iron white kitchen sink for $25 that normally retails for $400, and an American Standard faucet for $10, that retails for over $100! We also found two Kohler cast-iron sinks for both bathrooms, each $10, normally around $100. In short, we saved a bunch of money. They required a little elbow grease to get them looking clean and shiny, and some know-how to get them installed, but without places like the ReBuild Center, we wouldn't have been able to do these projects.
Here are some photos from installation day today:
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| Old, scratched up, shallow stainless steel sink |
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| Ripped up and prepped |
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| New(ish) Kohler cast iron sink with single handle faucet and soap dispenser! |
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| Bathroom sink ripped out and prepped |
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| Men working on man things like installing sinks! |
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