I agree. I don't think 2 faucets on one sink is weird but I wonder if 36" isn't quite big enough to really make that work well. 36" is probably the minimum for two faucets IMO. I was considering a Blanco Performa 1 and 3/4 bowl that is 37" long but it was just too big for me space. I couldn't (wasn't willing to) give up those extra inches of drawer storage.

Congratulations on your new house and with your daydreams!

Have you ever seen sabjimata's kitchen? She has a huge (I want to 6') soapstone sink with three wall-mounted faucets.

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I think 2 faucets could be great, but I also would be concerned about 36" not being wide enough. Do you want two people to stand side by side to use both? If so, that's tight.

I have a cold water/RO faucet and a bridge faucet at one 36" sink. We do use both simultaneously at times, but someone sneaking in to fill a glass with water only takes a few seconds.

It wouldn't be too weird, a bit short maybe, but I think I'd get a quote from Julien for a custom sink with the desired width/depth. Esp. if you are looking at a $5k sink. I tried to price a custom sink around here before other old house "stuff" sucked up all the funds. Julien was much less expensive although not cheap for sure.

Yes, I thought a bit short, but you are right but the Galley sink + a few accessories lists at $3900 and one of the additional accessories is $600--I could get a custom sink for less, I would imagine.

I doubt we would often be at the sink completely simultaneously a lot, but right now we have a strictly one person kitchen with a 17x16x10 sink and we manage to sometimes work as two in there. Having a sink more than twice as big that we could both access would be a huge change.

I looked at Julien's page for the custom sinks and I will check it out more carefully.

I added a second faucet to my 36" sink when i saw Sabjimata's. One is bridge, the other looks like a gear shift. We like it.

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Kitchens-Home-Americas-Chefs/dp/1561582875

Look at this book. Tom Douglas does it in his kitchen. He uses a huge restaurant sink. He has a large acrylic board cut to fit over as a cutting board. Not as nice looking but it works. Just an idea to work from.

something like this.
http://www.missionrs.com/2148-3-16-4.html?CAWELAID=610123697&gclid=CMC6wuDRlqsCFSYbQgod6xNkyw

New: Grohe "Red" and others in that family. They give instant hot water, and they mix this water with regular cold tap water too. I've never seen this yet.

i think an advantage of two faucets over one is the ease of rinsing the sink by creating two eddy currents that meet in the middle. In experiments I have found it the sink bottom water doesn't circle around the drain (there is less overshoot), and so stuff goes down the drain instead of circling around the sink. In other words, it's less aggravating because stuff does what it's supposed to do / things are as you intended them to be.

My plan has (had) two sinks separated by 30'' of counter. After some trenchant interrogation by marcolo, I'm thinking more seriously about a very wide single sink with Stages-like movable boards (cutting, drain).

This goes back to the darkroom sink idea.

Turns out there still are companies making such sinks, one is Arkay (like the one pictured above). See the link below. Stock sizes go from 36'' to 120'' wide, either 24'' or 18'' deep (front to back), and either 6'' or 10'' tall (lip to bottom). They are very sturdy, meant for being whacked by heedless students with steel developing containers. The state of film being what it is, I expect you could find a used one, needing only a power buffer to be gleaming shiny again - though there may be a lot of holes drilled in odd places in the rear wall. Rails could be welded to the front and rear sink walls to support the boards, or the boards could simply rest on the sink lips. If you wanted it some color other than stainless, I'd look into industrial powder coating, and use a sink mat for heavy pot-thrashing.

As for pricing, on B&H Photo I see a 18'' d x 60'' w x 6'' h version is $916. Not dirt cheap, but if it were made of fireclay, there'd be a mortgage application appended. High-end residential kitchen stuff is SO overpriced.

Here is a link that might be useful: Arkay photo processing sinks

Maybe it would be easier just to have someone fabricate a sink like that as part of an entire SS countertop, or take an existing sink and weld it into one.

It probably would, plus you could get a more sloped bottom, disposal-ready drain flange, stepped depth (''kids, stay out of the deep end!'').

We have two facuets on our 45" Stages - we have really enjoyed the set-up (we did not have room for a prep sink). There is room for us both to stand side by side and prep/wash - although probably not for hours at a time (but that probably says more about our marriage than the length of the sink..)

I have been really surprised about the additional utility of two faucets close together - even little things like being able to quickly access cold water from the other faucet when I am using hot, is great. I am huge fan of this set up - it really works for us.

Hmmm... hope this is not too much of a threadjack, but I hadn't seriously considered the Kohler Stages sinks before. (For background, they have a bowl to one side, and a shallow shelf that is a cross between a drainboard and a second bowl on the other side.) What would you center on the window behind the sink? The center of the *bowl* or the center of the whole thing?

Here is a link that might be useful: Kohler Stages sink

I actually sort of think of my two sinks, each with its own faucet -- that is, two faucets, that way -- same utility; extra faucet is handy. It's amazing how often someone needs to use a faucet while *I'm* using one. geeesh... but now they can! I love it. I think of my prep sink as basically a two-bowl sink with a lot of space in between the bowls. ;)

I am thinking that a Julien sink,--maybe through their custom program so a little longer than 36" and shallower than 10" would work.

I am thinking of using the despised Corian on the sink run (for seamlessness and slight bounciness--tired of breaking glasses).

I could do a build up around the sink as well as the front edge and have a ledge on the interior build up for the cutting board etc to slide on just like on the Galley Sink. So I could do a certain amount of customation for less than almost $5000 for the Galley sink.

Pal: Re your homebrew ledge idea, I am more or less planning to do that, too. I am not yet committed, but thinking of routing this ledge down in soapstone, as described in the thread on positive reveals.

Here is a link that might be useful: one of many positive reveal threads

From Windsor Smith's kitchen in House Beautiful.

Tyler Florence also used two faucets in this year's HB kitchen of the year, and the sink isn't all that large.

I like the idea of something forgiving around a sink. I have laminate in my current kitchen, and that has saved lots of things that have landed too hard on the countertop after washing...

That's a lovely sink, johnliu. I am picturing it filled with all the cucumbers, or peaches, or tomatoes I have dealt with in the past few weeks! And there would be room at the sink for all three kids at the sink to help with the rinsing and scrubbing, so it would get done in a fraction of the time.

Becky

Here is a link that might be useful: Tyler Florence's kitchen of the year

Hi! Haven't been on here much since mid-summer....when my kids' camp session ended.

Our sink is 60" so our faucets are centered over a 20" span.

I think 2 faucets on a 36" would work, especially if they were single hole faucets.

Hope you all are having great remodels :) xo