Yes, Trailrunner, the second sink is very much the kind of sink we have in our neighborhood. They both look beautiful in your house! I see a good number in salvage these days. Glad to see people think they're worth saving. I should note for segbrown that this IS a laundry/utility sink and the slant front was probably in part to accommodate a washboard and getting buckets in and out. Yours need not be THIS big! The angle of slant varies, some have just a little, some more, and I'd try it for comfort. It didn't bother me, but it's possible it might bother someone. I also don't know if it might drip more or less. The edge of a soapstone sink will certainly get chips. But Trailrunners are certainly "lived in" and they look pretty good to me!

I don't regret my prep sink in the slightest partly because, frankly, I don't even think of it as a prep sink. I never could quite get my mind around these separate spaces, though I'm still learning to think and use the space that way. But for me, essentially, my prep sink is the second half of a double bowl sink, just separated a little bit in space, which is nice. Because it allows two people to work at both "bowls". My prep sink is quite close to my cleanup sink. And quite frankly even though it's a blanco supersingle (which I absolutely love, BTW: love. That silgranite is fantabulous), it's not big enough. If I had it all to do over again I'd make my cleanup sink bigger. I don't sit around regretting its size, but it's just not "super"-enough, for me. However, there's that prep sink nearby which functions as a sidekick to the cleanup, and that's good. It's been commented before that a huge amount of what happens in a kitchen involves water, but this all hasn't quite sunk in for me appropriately. But in truth, if I were to do it again I might even make my already-large prep sink larger too. I clean a lot of vegetables, and having side drains for that might be helpful ... maybe, though maybe not because you also need counter cutting space, and lots of it. But anyway, the point is, I don't actually quite see how you can get too much water-trough (i.e., sink) space. This does depend on how you use the kitchen space and the kitchen. But if you cook a lot, probably you use water a lot, and having more rather than less of it, in multiple places, is a real boon. YMMV. For the record, I have sort of an L-shape kitchen with both sinks in the crook there. Sounds weird but it totally, totally, totally works. I've had it a couple years now and I still like it better every single day. GW is an amazing resource....

In my house, the kitchen island is not just used for cooking and eating. I have lived in this kitchen and with island for years. So I know how we use it. Because how the house is laid out, there is only 1 logical layout that makes any esthetic or functional sense. So we did not vary from that layout. Like others have said, I pivot 180degree to use the sink when I am working at the island. We use the island more like a center table in the kitchen, rather than the cooking/cleaning surface. My kitchen is about 15x15 ft. No a huge kitchen but not a small kitchen either. We use it to do homework, read the paper, wrap presents, lay out buffets, eat quick meals, pile groceries and more. I had to make a columns of FOR prep sink or AGAINST prep sink on the island. The only time the prep sink made sense was when we had 2 people quite busy in the kitchen while cooking. We only cook and clean about 2 hours total per day in the kitchen. We have someone sitting at the island nearly all day when we are home. If you have a house where the kids sit at the table next to the sink to do homework, visit etc, then the island predominantly functions as a part of the kitchen, then the cooking function trumps the design. In my kitchen, that was not the case; my kids do not sit at the table that is next to the kitchen. They prefer to sit at the island.... Majority of the time we are using the island, the prep sink actually detracted from how we use the kitchen island. I decided to go with the majority function of the house/kitchen/island; no prep sink. I don't regret it. This is a very personal intentional decision on my part. There are moments now and then when 2 sinks would have been nice. But there are more moments where the prep sink on the island would have been PITA.

What exactly are you going to use the prep sink for? Size really does matter with a prep sink depending on its function, and knowing how you’ll use it will help determine how big it should be. I have a prep sink fairly close to my range (so the range and prep sink are on the same counter run) because that is the way I work in the kitchen. In between the range and the prep sink is my main prep area....that is where all the work happens. I am so happy to have the sink there, but it is way too small. It’s a 16” sink, but those dimensions are NOT interior dimensions. The inside actually measures only 13”....so ridiculously small. So make sure you get a sink with INTERIOR dimensions that make sense for how you will use it. I would much prefer a prep sink with an interior measurement of 21” or so.....would be much more practical and useful. Also, I am always putting goopy utensils and small dirty measuring cups etc. in that sink. I do not want to hand wash those items, so what happens to all the dirty gloppy things in the prep sink that need to be put in the dishwasher? Unfortunately unless you have a dishwater very close to your prep sink, you are carrying those dishes/utensils across your floor and counters (dribbling all along the way) in order to put them into the dishwasher that is way over by your cleanup sink. So, my two VERY big regrets in my kitchen design that I am now living with every day is that my prep sink is WAY too small (wish I had gone bigger) and I truly wish I had put a dishwasher (even just a small 18” one or a single dishwasher drawer) next to my prep sink. This is something that bugs me every single day.