Salvager: Trough Sink With Great Hardware
We’ve had a lot of readers and visitors ask us about the trough sink that we installed in the top floor kids bathroom and where they can get one for themselves. We happen to have bought ours from Demolition Depot but we noticed that the Olde Good Things website currently has a very cool one…
We’ve had a lot of readers and visitors ask us about the trough sink that we installed in the top floor kids bathroom and where they can get one for themselves. We happen to have bought ours from Demolition Depot but we noticed that the Olde Good Things website currently has a very cool one with amazing original hardware (we had to find some extra faucets for ours). Here’s the description from OGT:
Made by the ‘Standard Co.’ and was salvaged from a prominent lace factory in Scranton, PA. It is made of iron with a porcelain glaze; its two legs are made of iron; and its four faucets are nickel over bronze. On the bottom of the sink is the embossed text MADE IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The sink is intact and in good shape with no cracks or breaks. However, the porcelain is worn and the sink should be reglazed.
The price? $1,200.
Vintage Iron Pedestal Utility Sink [Olde Good Things]
Trough Sink Mounted in Kids’ Bathroom [Reno Blog]
I love it.
Architectural salvage is big business, that’s for sure. And now salvage businesses are a part of “green building” because it’s recycling, and green building is going to be big business in the coming era. I’d love to utilize some recycled pieces in our new house. But I agree, for that money they could reglaze it. Or I’d even pay $1400 for it reglazed, as opposted to $1200 not reglazed.
Those sinks bring back really creepy memories of public junior high school bathrooms.
It’s amazing that someone would pay $1200 for that shit stained sink (why would anybody at a lace factory use a sink as a shitter?)
I wish I’d gone into the old sink business instead of real estate. A few years ago those sinks could be picked up for small change.
Somebody is making a fortune selling old crap!
For $1200, I think they could reglaze it for me.
That sink is awesome. I don’t know if I’ll go vintage, but I’m definitely putting in a HUGE sink in our top floor bathroom in our new house. I’m thinking I’m just going to use a big steel kitchen sink in there, seriously. I never understand why bathroom sinks are so small. These are sinks that are used for washing lingerie, washing the face and hair, even bathing a pet or a baby. Small sinks are silly. Especially those little glass bowls that are so trendy now. Those are fine for the powder room, but not in a bathroom for a family to use.