Thanks so much for posting. I really like how your shower does not compete with the sink - I am going to keep the cross handles for the tub for sure but am concerned over the cross handles on a 4 inch spread for the sink. Aside from yours being 8 vs. my 4 inch spread - are the handles in general easy to manipulate and turn? THANKS!! (P.s - is that Carerra (spelling) on your sink top? I hope it is as that is what I just ordered yesterday and I LOVE the way the cross handles look on that sink top. Very classic..I am leaning towards the cross on this. I think the trouble I am running into on this bathroom is my shower ended up being modern looking while the rest of my bath I am holding back in time - like your bathroom. Very elegant and my shower seems modern. But I will post when all is done..SOON I hope! LMK the thoughts on how hard the cross handles are to manipulate. thanks!

I do agree that it's not fun to turn on the one-handled faucet and burn yourself because the hot water was just used. This NEVER happens to me. But I often burned myself when I had a double-handle faucet. In fact, I got a single-handle because the water in my apartment comes out at something like 150 degrees (and I can't turn it down; it's an apt. bldg). AND because the cold water comes out at 40 degree--very unpleasant. W/ the double handle, it was hard to tell by looking at it, how far you'd turned it on--was the hot all the way, or only a little? Of course, the design of the handle made that worse. But even on the lever handle, where it was easier to tell how far I'd turned it, I also had to use two hands to get comfortable water for rinsing dishes. And since I'd wash a couple of things, then rinse, then turn the water off, then repeat, this was a major pain. It was always two or three steps to get to the perfect water temperature--and being "off perfect" was dangerous if not tremendously unpleasant. I always lift the handle in the middle when I'm just washing my hands; I never turn on only the hot (which used to happen w/ two handles, because I'd be holding a plate in one hand) unless I deliberately do so. And I have memorized where to lift the handle to get "hot but not scalding" when I am washing things by hand (which I do for a few things)--that's about 10 o'clock. I find it SO much easier to get exactly the temperature I want from the very beginning. I would never go back to a double handle. I don't care what they look like.

It depends. I like the look of two handles, and installed one in our bathroom last year. It was an improvement over two knobs, but while the faucet still makes me happy to look at, it drives me nuts to use. Temperature regulation takes that extra split second x number of times a day; the two handles take up y amount of extra space on either side of the faucet, and there seem to be extra bits to clean - all inconvenience level problems. Changing it out to a uglier one-handled lever is creeping steadily up an already very long house to-do list. We also have two handles on our basement utility sink. It's still inconvenient, but not as often, and I'm keeping that faucet. I'd put two handles in a guest bath or show kitchen, but our kitchen is getting a single lever handle, non-negotiable.

I'm not sure what you mean by water filtration faucet. Any faucet can be a filtration faucet by connecting a filter to the cold side. Why don't you call Waterstone customer service and ask about the filter systems for their faucets. Caveat. Filtering the water that you use mostly for washing and not for drinking is not generally a good idea.