Every year around this time, we do some home improvement projects. We do some over Thanksgiving and usually some over the Christmas break too. I took on a project that I knew would be a pain this past weekend, starting it on Saturday. I had an idea of what I thought would work before I started and ended up changing it mid-project as I knew that what I had in mind would be WAY too much work.
Our house was built in 1986, and the kitchen sink was original. Years of use had left it chipped and stained. The tap was a piece of crap. I had replaced the guts on it at least three times and it would drip again after about 6 months. I went out to Amazon to find a replacement faucet. The related products section had a stainless steel sink on sale ($900 down to $120). Well, that was easy.
The original sink was a drop in sink, mounted to look like a bottom mount with a tile border. I thought I could mount the new sink the same way, but it was bigger than I expected. I had to strip away the old tile border, then ended up having to put some of it back to fill in the corners for the new one.
Anyway, without getting too wordy (I know, already there), here are some pics, before and after. I ended up doing way more than I expected work wise, but it was so worth it.