replace guest bathroom sink

It was 7:30 on Sunday night by the time we gave up on the project in some disgust.

But we were back on the trail early yesterday morning. After breakfast out, we went and picked out a new sink, using all sorts of measurements to try and predict whether the sink we we chose would cover the hole in the cabinet.

Back at the ranch, we slide the new sink in and, no, indeed, it does not completly fill the hole. So much for an oval sink.

Another trip to Lowe’s in Palmdale, 12 miles away. We finally settle for the square sink. But of course the holes for the faucet are different than the replacement faucet we have at home. Sigh. The new sink and faucet cost about $200 more than we were planning on, but we are sort of stuck at this point.

D cuts the hole in the cabinet a little larger, and it works! We actually even decide that we LIKE it. In go the faucet connections, in goes the sink. We love it.

I guess we spent about 16 hours on this project altogether. Some heated discussions, yes. Frustration, yes. But all in all, I very much enjoy working on things like this with D. And we have the satisfaction not only of having done it, but of having a nice clean sink and a faucet we really like.

All we need to do now is replace the cabinet handles with brushed nickle to match the tub fixtures, towel racks and lighting fixture we put in since we moved here, and the thing will be all matched up!

Remember, we were only going to replace the fixtures. But when we got to the point where we were unhooking the drain pipe, and it just wouldn’t budge. We couldn’t even see how it had been put together in the first place!

So D got out the hacksaw and sawed off the pipe beneath the drain!

It was only after this that we looked closely at the replacement faucet we’d bought and realized that it wouldn’t work with our sink! Most sinks have this handy overflow feature, and nice looking fixtures are made to work with these. The fixture has big holes in it that with our old sink would just let water flow into the cabinet underneath. Grr.

we wanted to do when we first moved into our house. It’s a manufactured home, and the bathroom sinks are made of plastic or fiberglass, and the one that everyone sees when they come to the house was stained and nasty. I’m not ashamed of living in a manufactured home. It’s very nice inside and it has great views. But I really was embarrassed that it looked like the sink was dirty.

It took a long time before we built up the home improvement courage to tackle this. Plumbing!

Finally last weekend we decided to at least change the fixtures, which were cheap cheap cheap looking. Here’s the before photo.