Demonte Sink

Today’s kitchens are adopting color and an increased choice of available product, while stainless steel remains a true competitor.

Color is coming back to the kitchen, and one way to carry color into the kitchen is with a Cast Iron sink. Companies have made beautiful cast iron products since its early beginnings in the late 1800s. Popular designs include single and double basin, undermount or self-rimming, and an innovative, functional option like SmartDivide – a lowered middle wall to ease basic tasks like cleaning and filling pots. Truly elegant, classical and modern looks can be achieved with cast iron. New colors are being introduced each year.

Cast iron is a very durable product, resistant to chips, cracks, dents and stains. Moreover, the product is constructed of 93 percent recycled and reclaimed material – making it a very nice eco option as well.

Basic, neutral colors including Black, Sandbar and Cashmere perfectly complement the most popular granites and marbles. Kohler (a major producer of cast iron sinks) has introduced Black ’n Tan, and other vapour colors for kitchen sinks. Black ’n Tan is a three-dimensional intermingling of blacks, browns and tans created by a hot enameling process. All these colors perfectly complement granite, marble, metal and wood without competing.

Color is emotion. There’s certainly a continuing trend for the commercial look in the kitchen, but there are people who want a different look, a Tuscan kitchen or an Art Deco kitchen, for example. Color is being stimulated from cultural and geographic influences and the use of color is becoming much more sophisticated.

Color provides an opportunity for an emotional atmosphere or expression. A good example would be a comparison between a stainless steel sink under a dark granite countertop and a cast iron sink in grey under that same granite top. The stainless steel look is cooler and more neutral; the grey cast iron sink is richer, warmer and more evocative. The use of subtle colors that are near-neutrals is another very strong trend because you can build off it in a lot of different ways without competing with other colors and decorative details in the kitchen.

Color trends in the kitchen demonstrate how much the kitchen has changed. As the kitchen increasingly becomes more of a living space, the desire to make it more comfortable and more beautiful is accelerating change. Consumers and designers are choosing from a dramatically different world of materials and palette of colors to achieve this. But no sink, or kitchen, would be complete without its jewel –the faucet.

Faucets complete the design aesthetic in two ways; one stylistically and the second materialistically. Not only is the style of the faucet a major design statement the finishes offered today allow the look to be further refined through the finish.

Another trend is the ever-changing location of the faucet: no longer are they confined to the deck surrounding the sink. Wall mount applications have significantly increased, along with the inclusion of a Pot Filler located at the stove and water filtration systems. Faucet offerings from bold contemporary to commercial influence, and traditional or Old World, there is a faucet style, and finish, for everyone.