I’ve had a 30” Shaw at a second home for 10 years and still love it but decided on the 33” Kohler Whitehaven for our new kitchen reno at home - it was such a price difference and looked so similar. I actually like it better! I especially like the slight slant of the bottom to the offset drain. Much easier to rinse scraps into the disposal. It’s still new but it does seems like the Kohler finish is easier to keep clean. We removed the Kohler logo (which was crooked anyway) so it’s just all white and looks great!

Joseph will give you details:) Just wanted to say I love my short apron Whitehaven. Kohler makes this sink in two apron styles - "short apron" and "tall apron". If you have a standard sink base cabinet, you need to order the "short apron" style - I think that has been said and the order numbers given, but I just wanted to make it clear. Sometimes when ordering it is in the small print on whether it is a short or tall apron - so be sure you order the correct sink. The sink is easy to install because it has a self facing apron and the cabinet does not need to be exactly scribed to the sink as in a traditional farm sink.

I was first smitten by what I first knew as Belfast or butler sinks in the early eighties, when I was in college and had a subscription to British Homes & Gardens magazines. And then in 1988 my mother took me to the Smallbone showroom in NYC, where I finally got to see one of those glorious sinks in real life and received the unfitted kitchens catalogue I still treasure. It's been full-on mad love for the past 32 years : ) . I went to England on my honeymoon in the early 90s where my husband and I actually went to a few kitchen showrooms and I contemplated hauling home a sink as a souvenir lol. I finally got two such sinks in our new house two years ago (though I had bought the Ikea Domsjo sinks, one single basin and one double-basin, about seven years earlier because I was worried Ikea would stop making them before we needed them, which turned out to be the case, sigh). And as Mrs. Pete says, if you spend a lot of time at the sink, washing dishes or food prep, they're very convenient and efficient.

This is his response to me "If you would have shown me this picture and told me this is how I want my sink installed I would have installed it that way. It would have actually been easier for me. You made it clear to me that you did not want a top mount installation because you did not like the way it looked and it would have left a large gap between the doors under the sink and the sink itself. That being said I offered you this option and you agreed. The caulking shouldn't be lifting like that, for whatever reason it didn't bond properly. If you cant install the caulking i will come back out and reapply when I have a chance." In the box, we opened together with the installer with the apron sink the installation instructions were and I showed him those and also the photo from the IKEA website how I wanted it. He is bending the truth with an after-construction that I never showed it to him. If there were any problems we should have halted the installation to fix that instead of going through with something like this that causes problems. It is a drop-in sink yes. I spoke with another installer here locally, who is going to come here in 2-3 weeks to have a look. He also shook his head. He said maybe we can build up with wood under to stabilize the sink and lift it up, it might be the motion that is causing the caulking mostly to crack but he needs to see it with his own eyes first to see if it's even doable.