My kitchen faucet has seen its day. It’s white plastic, ugly, stained, and when
you pull out the handle to use the spray function, it won’t retract. If you think it has retracted, but it’s not
locked in place, it falls down, spraying you and the entire kitchen with
water. It completely sucks and needs to
be replaced. Here is the story of why I
just keep living with it:
If you give a mommy a faucet, she is going to want a new
sink to go with it. A sink that is not
scratched up and stained, a sink that is not white, a sink in which she can
dump out half a cup of coffee without having to clean the resulting coffee
stain with Comet or a Magic Eraser.
If you give a mommy a sink, she is going to want new
countertops to replace the old laminate ones that have that telltale brown
laminate seam, and have bumpy drips of superglue from the messy fixing of
broken toys.
If you give a mommy new countertops, she would really prefer
not to put them on the existing cabinets, which are dated country oak, and not
her style at all, and which have curved panel doors that, even if painted, will
never look modern.
If you give a mommy new cabinets, it really doesn’t make
sense to put them on the cracked tile floor, because the flooring goes under
the cabinets, and wasn’t installed correctly, leading to a long crack that runs
through several tiles and gets longer each year. Also, the floor is white and shows every single freaking drip and
piece of dust.
And that is why I have a non-functional kitchen faucet. The end.
That is exactly what happened to us. We tried to add a new counter on a new island-thingy, but the pre-fab didn't exist anymore, so we added new counters everywhere, and while we were at it, and if were getting new counters, I wanted that new dishwasher to screw in the bottom, not the old one, and we got a new faucet because it is silly to reinstall an old yucky faucet. Almost splurged on a new sink, but managed to hold off b/c Brian buffed our stainless one and it seemed good enough. :) Maybe you can have Brian and I to do your counters, sink, and faucet after Christmas in trade for some babysitting or something? And new cabinet doors wouldn't be too hard another time.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds awesome! What I should really do, though, is just get a new faucet and a cheap-O Ikea sink if I can find one that fits in the existing cut-out. And then, later, when the kids are done with the play kitchen, do a larger remodel, because at some point, I am so cutting through the kitchen wall to make a bar area between the kitchen and dining room where the kids' play kitchen is now. And by then, surely we will have won the lottery. I mean, right? How long can you play and not win?
DeleteHaha! That's why we don't start projects!
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