When you're both getting ready, are you both using the sink? For me, I would prefer the single sink with storage over a narrow double pedestal with less storage. While I do have a double sink and I like having it, I would like it a whole lot less if I did not have enough counter space or storage. We rarely are both using the sinks at the same time. I just enjoy being able to have a more pristine sink that's "mine" even though we are usually not both using sinks at the same time.

red lover, I bought the blancowave sink in the link for my pending remodel. Got a deal on ebay, so went ahead and bought it. After just looking at it lying there in the box for a few weeks whispering to me how much I would like to be using it, I finally caved and jerry-rigged an installation in the non-remodeled kitchen over the weekend. (It is an undermount sink, I have laminate counters, it is supposed to need a 42" sink base, I have 36 inches, the hole in the counter for the existing sink was totally the wrong size and shape, blah blah whatever. watch me make it work anyway). So far, I love it. The large side is big enough to hold my largest baking sheet, roasting pan, or largest skillet with handle; the small side is still big enough for a colander or stockpot. This is what I was doing with it Sunday. From January 26, 2012 Here is a link that might be useful: blancowave 42 double

Sorry for not following this thread after the post. The sink in my picture looks extra huge just from the angle. Its similar in dimensions to rmlanza's (I see a glimpse of the famous towel pig in that picture!) Its also a blanco silgranite super single in anthracite only mine has the hole in the center. I don't have the exact dimensions but mine is in a 36" sink cab and if I remember right its around 33" wide. Please if you do decide to go with that sink read my finished kitchen thread about that sink and cracks. Its an absolutely wonderful sink in just about every way but based on Garden Web threads it must be close to a 50/50 chance that your sink will have a small crack in it and you want to check for that first. Once they are installed I have never heard of them getting any cracks - its something with shipping or possibly install. As far as my mention of access to the disposal with dishes in the sink.. yeah with the sink grid I can still run it and such but I mean say you have some pots and pans in there and you are cutting veggies - you don't have direct access to the disposal anymore - very very minor inconvenience - I just throw them in a bowl and grind them up later when I've cleared room in the sink. I did not have to get a special disposal but the guy doing the plumbing had to redo all the plumbing aroung the sink - even cutting the back of the cabinet open to lower where the drain pipe enters the sink cab. Just make sure your GC or plumber knows how deep the sink will be and you'll be OK. I love the sink grid. The sink doesn't look as sexy with the grid in it but the usefulness more than makes up for it: A) raises the bottom up AND the sink grid is level while the bottom of the sink is not so it can drain B) all the food bits and gunk fall through the grid so your stuff in the sink doesn't get so gross :)

"I am leery of getting one big side and one small side, because we don't have a disposal, making the smaller side seem less useful to me." FWIW, I keep the large side of the sink (where I have the disposal BTW) open for general use by DH, and in my previous home that's the side the dishes and pots went in to soak. I use the smaller, normal sized side for the prep side. Ours is 33" wide, with the large bowl being about 14x18 and the smaller being about 14x16, and both are 8" deep. My husband also puts lots of dishes in the sink--and they're usually teetering--drives me nuts! I can't imagine prepping in the 24" single sink with the dishes and pans in it. Even with a larger single sink, it seems to me that he'd still have it covered with dishes that I'd have to do something with. In fairness to him, he leaves them there because I like to load the DW myself. "I can't clean up after him because he stands right in front of the dishwasher, as that is where the prep area is in the corner next to the stove." Can you post the kitchen design and get feedback from the great people here on how you might rearrange some of the work spaces to avoid the problem you have here? Anne