We opted for none of the above. For 20 years we had a door dispenser for water and ice--we stopped using it once we realized how long it took to fill a glass with water and how impossible it was to fill anything larger than a glass. So for years we used a Pur or Brita filter pitcher for water and just collected the ice cubes in a bin.

In our remodel, we'll continue to use the filter pitcher because it gives the largest quantity of water at the fastest speed. Our new built-in fridge will have an ice-maker but no door dispenser.

Thanks, Maydl. We are definitely getting the dispenser in the door mainly because I love crushed ice and that's how I can get it. Sounds silly, but I've had it for 16 years and really like it. That's why I am trying to decide if having the filtered water in the sink is too much. Thanks.

As far as the hot water dispenser, you might want to follow this thread in the appliances forum:

Here is a link that might be useful: instant hot water

Thanks, Writersblock. That was the Forum I was referring to that got be reconsidering having a hot/col at the sink. That's why I'd like to hear from people who have one, especially if they also have the door dispenser. Thanks for the link.

I loved my instant hot water at the sink, too...it's one of the things that went with our big house when we moved into town last year, and I miss it!
I, too, used it for cleaning all the time, and to heat the knife to cut a cheesecake or a lump of cold butter, and to swoop the fat off the knife to make it faster to wash if I was trimming meat before cutting vegetables, and to get pesky price stickers off things, and to warm the china coffee pot and our cups before putting the coffee in it; likewise the thermos for roadies of coffee or tea, and to warm the ice cream scoop, and to make hot compresses for my occasional sinus headaches.
And that's just the things I can remember.
I'll never re-do a kitchen without one.

I have to have a cold water dispenser for cold water
+ cubed ice for juice etc
+ crushed ice for cocktails!

We have always had a cold filtered water dispenser/ice maker in our fridge. Love the ice, hate to use the water because it takes so looooooooooooooong.

In our new kitchen (almost finished, but sink/water has been functional for about a month) we added a cold filtered water faucet (meaning a separate faucet with an under counter water filter) and I LOVE it. It's almost my favorite thing in the new kitchen. It dispenses water really quickly--nearly as quickly as our standard faucet. So now I can use it for many more uses than I ever did my fridge unit. I'll really be glad to use filtered water for nearly everything (except washing dishes.) I'll be heating that water in the micro for tea, etc.

Our under counter filter is the sears brand model that is affordable as well as being highly rated by consumer reports. So far so good on that, though it is new, I know.

Greenandgold, thanks. That is the dilemma for me. Why would I need a cold water on the sink when I have one in the fridge, because that's filtered as well, right? But, you seem pretty adamant about it. Thanks.

I live in the north and expect to love having instant hot this winter, esp. if I end up home sick with a cold! I remember being sick with a bad one last winter, in the middle of the remodel and it was miserable with no kitchen or livingroom, no couch to lie on and no TV except in the bedroom or on my computer.

My issue so far is that I don't like the TASTE of the water heated in it. Did anyone else notice this? I emptied the unit out twice thinking the tank was new and needed to be flushed out, but I still notice it. I hope with more frequentn use that goes away! I also have a filter to put on it that the plumber didn't install. I left it there for him, but maybe since I hadn't specifically listed it when I told him what I wanted done, he ignored it. But I never had filtered water for tea before, just from the faucet heated in the microwave and I never noticed an off taste.

Sue

Still looking for opinions and help from people with water dispenser in fridge and water dispenser on sink. Thanks.

We have the dispenser on the fridge and use it a dozen times a day. We also keep a Brita unit in the fridge because we drink and use a lot of water and that will fill a pot faster.

I didn't want instant hot at the sink -- my sink is very minimalist with a faucet and an air switch for the garbage disposal and nothing else. I don't need something expensive and mechanical. I don't have kids so my water from the tap can be very, very hot. Plus I have a teakettle that will produce boiling water in minutes. Since I'm cooking all the time, boiling water is like so elemental that having a machine to do it is silly to me. That doesn't mean anyone shouldn't have anything they want and can afford but I have an opinion for myself.

In our remodel, we will have external ice and water and a hot water dispenser in the prep sink. Right now we use the Brita and a hot water pot (plugged in 24/7) which keeps water boiling hot but sits on the counter and takes up lots of space. My kids and DH love cold water and miss the dispenser (which is currently broken on my kitchenaid) That was one of their musts for the new kitchen. I LOVE hot water and can't live without it for tea and hot water, hot chocolate. I would rather pull a lever rather than microwave or boil water. SO, for our remodel, my rationale was since i'm getting cold filtered water in the fridge- I would save and get the hot water dispenser in the sink. If the water dispenser in the fridge is that slow..i'll put the Brita in my new and bigger fridge. For me it wasn't a hard decision- it seems overkill to have 2 filtered cold water dispensers. Now I have to look into the energy consumption you are talking about because I am trying to be energy conscience and efficient with this new remodel.

Imrainey and Pedimom, both valid opinions and I appreciate it. Helps me alot, Thanks!