While deciding on the fixtures for our bathroom, we decided to go with a pedestal sink rather than a vanity and sink. We didn’t like the ugly, oversized, homemade vanity for our small bathroom.
I had looked through Lowe’s website at their pedestal sinks while researching for a toilet for the bathroom. With the different price ranges, I knew we couldn’t afford a $1000 plus pedestal sink. I wouldn’t want to put a high end sink in this tiny bathroom of ours anyway. The high end pedestal sinks wouldn’t go with the interior of our 1942 home.
I went down to the $300 price range to check out the styles for the pedestal sinks. Those were a bit to upscale and still a bit over our budget considering we are trying to keep our bathroom remodel under $2000 total. While we know we may need to go over that with a total gutting of the bathroom, I knew the $300 sinks were still a bit out of our range. I looked through the $200 and lower pedestal sinks to find a sink bowl that would fit my husbands requests for width and depth.
Why Considering the Size of the Pedastal Sink is Important
The reason we went for the pedestal stink was because our bathroom is 12 feet long by 6 feet wide approximately. With the vanity sitting across from the bathtub, there is about a 2 foot clearance. By changing to a pedestal sink, it would give us another half foot between the sink and the tub. It would also provide more space between the toilet and the sink by about 3 inches. Then another 3 inches on the other side of the sink.
Considering the Costs of the Pedastal Sink is Important
With all this in mind when we went to Lowe’s we had looked at what they had in stock the first time we went shopping for fixtures. Once we had taken stock of what types of pedestal sinks they had in stock on our first intial trip, we waited for a few weeks before buying the pedestal sink and the toilet I had written about previously.
When we went back to Lowe’s on New Year’s Day to do our actuall fixture shopping for our toilet and pedestal sink, we chose two different items than we originally thought we were going to buy. We had looked at some pedestal sinks in the $150 price range on this day whily we were buying what we needed. After looking at the depth and width of the basin of the sink, the sinks in the $150 price range didn’t have the lip on the basin my husband wanted while they did have the width and depth. Some of those were a bit larger in width than my husband wanted because they would be a few inches less in width than the vanity and sink we have now.
After looking at the pedestal sinks that were $86 and $44 in price, we went with the cheaper one because it would work the best in the space we had. It also had the size of sink basin my husband wanted with a lip. All three of the price ranges had the basin and pedestal included.
While it may seem we went too cheap with the pedestal sink, we decided that is what would work best between the two cheapest items. It is a plain pedestal sink, but we still have more items we are needing to get for our bathroom remodel. Besides, it’s not like we live in our bathroom.
The pedestal sink combination comes with the basin and pedestal only. We will need to buy a faucet for it which we did the day we bought it. By the way, the faucet cost, $89, twice as much as the pedestal sink combo kit. While we went cheap with the pedestal sink, I did want a faucet that wasn’t the cheap chrome plated ones that most contractors will put in a bathroom when they are set to a budget like ours.
Is the Savings on the Pedastal Sink Worth It?
By going with a pedestal sink and faucet that cost les than the mid-range pedestal sinks, it allows us to have the extra $176 we were planning to spend on this sink replacement.
With the savings we had on our original plans, we were able to special order linoulum for the floor that day. While linolum is not in the trends of home remodeling today, it was what we decided to do with flooring for our bathroom. I will explain in another article how we came to this decision over the tiling we were looking at.
Conclusion
By rethinking our pedestal sink choices, we were able to buy a higher end toilet and flooring with adhesive and a faucet for the sink the day we bought our fixtures for our bathroom remodeling project.
