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Oil-rubbed bronze is also nice because it doesn't show fingerprints and water spots as much as the other finishes.
Be careful - true oil rubbed bronze is a very soft finish and easily damaged by cleaners and develops wear with use (such as on faucet handles and door knobs). Fixtures with the "real" finish are typically very expensive. Most mass merchandise fixtures advertised as oil rubbed bronze are really just a color designed to look like oil rubbed bronze - it's not really an oil-rubbed finish. Those ones tend to hold up just fine.
Just pick whatever YOU like best. What is in an populatr right now will be out of date by the time you finish anyway. they change what is "IN" regularly so they can keep selling lots of suff.
Agree with the above. People spend way too much time on here worrying about whats in and whats not for their house. BUY WHAT YOU LIKE!!! INSTALL!! ENJOY!!!
We did our baths in chrome. I know its not considered "in", but I really didn't care. To me, chrome in a bathroom is timeless and we happen to like the look. We also have a few rooms with brass fixtures (dining and foyer) and if you think I am spending a mint to change them out because they are "dated" you are nuts. They work for us and if someone walks into our house and judges us on the color of our fixtures they probably aren't someone I want have in my home anyway.
Some companies make a really great finish where they vaporize chome and either brass or nickle and then combine them and bond them to the iron fixture. The claim it is a process that must be done in a vacuum and was supposedly developed on the space station. The resulting finish is beautiful and lasts forever (at least they guarantee it forever). The company I know of that does this (G & S) is insanely expensive (as in over $1K for a sink faucet). However there must be other companies doing this.
The finish is called PVD. I was a little off in my understanding of how it is done, but close. Other companies do offer it. Also G & S prices have come down a lot since last time I looked. I guess they found not much market for $5,000 bath hardware sets.
This isn't rocket science. What do you like? Buy it. End of story.
We don't know how long the OP plans to live in this house or if they have plans to sell in the near future - in which case it does make sense to take into consideration what might be popular (or not) with potential buyers.
I say this as someone who spent a good deal of his career moving every 2 years - during that period I never did anything to a house that wasn't done with an eye toward resale.
I say this as someone who spent a good deal of his career moving every 2 years - during that period I never did anything to a house that wasn't done with an eye toward resale.
I feel sorry for you. It must have felt like you were never living in your own house.
Life is too short to worry about what other people will and won't like!
I feel sorry for you. It must have felt like you were never living in your own house.
Yeah, that's exactly how it felt! We were always afraid to decorate or paint anything beyond a shade of beige. Glad to be beyond that now.
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