Listen to the designer, she is giving good advice!

Check out Build.com. I found some pot fillers that are more modern in their design. Your challenge may be getting the brass finishes to look okay together.

Thanks Red and Chispa... RedRyder, the issue I have is the contemporary pot filler that "matches" the faucet is too modern for me, I want a softer, more traditional pot filler. Like the one pictured. The question is can I mix and match styles (those two pictured in particular) of a faucet and pot filler (with teh same finish/color)? What do you think?

You can do whatever you want. It’s your kitchen.

But…why not choose a traditional faucet, since you like the traditional pot filler so much?

Your proposed solution will look as if you picked them from the bargain bin.

Exactly, you can do whatever you like but these are so different they will never look intentional. Rethink the pot filler anyhow, most rarely get used. Do you want to make soup with water that’s been sitting in the pipe for a week?

This will not look good.

I think that since it is such a small piece of hardware if you really don't like it in a few years you can always change it

I think most of the time mixing traditional and modern can work. But since these are both faucets, it would look off--all your like things should be a similar style and color. Maybe you do the traditional pot filler and faucet, but have sleeker/modern hardware. Lighting is another place to add something to the mix.

I absolutely think that a skilled designer can seamlessly pull off using these two fixtures in the same space IF the rest of the space has a very individualized aesthetic that plays to a variety of looks and is not pegged as all one ”style”. We don’t have enough info about the look of the rest of your kitchen to know if all of the elements combine into a look that can host this difference in fixtures or not. I suspect your designer knows that it cannot and that is why she is telling you not to use it.

I can imagine the pot filler that goes with the faucet is super modern looking and might not be to your liking.

Can you tell us more about your kitchen - materials, style, inspiration pics?

The alernative is always to not use a pot filler. They have always seemed kind of ridiculous to me.

I sometimes use a slightly more contemporary fixture than I like because traditional ones are often so over the top coy and scrolley they just don’t make sense for my taste.

I've seen worse things done that make one scratch their head. Unless you have a $Million dollar+ designer home, most non-designer folks will not even notice your pot filler is not the same style as your faucet. But you came here to confirm your designer's feedback.

If you love the faucet, give up the pot filler. I have never had one, but like Patricia said, if the stove is close to the sink, there isn’t a need for it. You will also save the expense of the plumbing.

Thanks all.. I will stick to using both contemporary. We're actually finishing construction, so potfiller is plumbed. I know it's not practical, but have leaned into it's decorative nature. We have white oak cabintry with a 1.5 inch beveled shaker, a borghini marble island/range backsplash and black perimeter countertops. The hardware is below (top knobs cumberland honey bronze), and we have black shelves on the side of the kitchen that will have brass tipping rails that have a softer/curved more traditional look. We also have a mud room visible from the kitchen that has a sink with a traditional-style faucet, which is why I wanted to pull the traditional into the kitchen too; I just love the lines. Now that the kitchen faucet/pot filler are on site, as is the mud room faucet, I was rethinking the contemporary kitchen faucet fixture look, which is why I came here to solicit feedback as it would be easier to replace just the pot filler at this stage, but sounds like that's not a good idea, so we'll leave as is, and I'll just go into the mud room when I want to look at a pretty faucet :)

It sounds lovely. Please post photos when you’re done.