Hi Katy,

How far along are you in your kitchen project? What color are the cabinets and the sink? Depending on where you are in your kitchen project, you might want to wait until you have several items in place, such as your cabinetry, sinks, and appliances to be able to get the overall context.

I just went through this exercise myself. Originally, I made my decision based on my cream-colored cabinets and I found some neat oil-rubbed bronze hardware with just a tad of copper shining through at Expo when it was going out of business. Things changed in my kitchen as I went along, for example, I ended up buying a black enamel range with brushed nickel, and a black refrig with Euro pulls. While the oil rubbed bronze looks just fine against the cabinet and drawers, it doesn't look good with so much stainless and black.

I'm not familiar with the Rohl Tuscan Brass finish per se, so I can't really comment on whether it is considered oil rubbed or not.

Good luck!

Cabinets are in 90%, all appliances installed, faucet purchased. I'm trying to figure out the finish of the faucet, can't find any info on it, like is it oil rubbed or not. I have the hardware style picked out I'm just stumped as to oil rubbed or not. I thought I wanted oil rubbed matte until I saw the faucet. My kD is on vacation.

I'm excited as I think this is the last purchase decision I have to make for the kitchen!

I stopped into a high end plumbing showroom last Thursday and I am so glad I did. I had a list of faucets I wanted to see and also see the finishes in person. I saved myself a big heartache by viewing the finishes in person. I was really set on the Grohe faucet in ORB, but after seeing Grohe's ORB, I just didn't like the finish. I did look at the Rohl faucets, but not that color specifically as Rohl is a little out of my price range.
I just encourage you to go to a plumbing showroom and view the finishes in person. Good LUck.

I have the Rohl pot filler in TB. It is the ONLY Rohl finish that, like many of the ORBs, is not covered by the Rohl warranty. I'm not clear on why none of the manufacturers warranty their ORB. I think it's because they warn you that it's a living finish and they don't want people coming back and complaining if it changes in a way they don't like.

The Tuscan Brass is beautiful; it's really just an antique brass. I'm doing a Victorian reproduction kitchen and I love it in that setting. I would wait to order hardware til the very end. Then just look around at all the finishes in the kitchen and decide which you want to pick up on. I made the mistake of rushing in and ordering my ORB main faucet first and now I'll have to live with it for a pretty long time, since it's a nice one. It looks fine, but I went with mostly AB on the other finishes, including the hardware which hasn't arrived yet.

I did a google image search on "Rohl Tuscan brass" and found lots of pictures of faucets in that finish. Very pretty, I like it more than ORB.

thanks so much for all the info.
I'll wait for my kd to return and take the faucet back in to her shop to pick out knobs and pulls. I was hoping to do it on line, it's a bit cheaper. We're almost ready to start putting things away in the cabinets so I'd like to make a choice, this seems to be one of the easier choices in the kitchen so far.
Katy