I think acrylic is pretty ill advised as a kitchen sink. It scratches fairly easily, burns and melts, and is also vulnerable to solvents. Your enameled sink might not look great, but it took 30 years to get it to that point. and stainless is always a good option. Also consider granite composite.

The plate at the base of the faucet is an escutcheon, and is usually optional on install. They are included with single hole faucets to cover up unused pre-existing holes.

Also, I'm confused about the hole you need for the dishwasher thing. What is the function of the dishwasher thing you're using? I've never heard of a dishwasher connection coming up through a faucet hole in the sink.

I'd highly recommend a Kohler Vault in your situation. Unlike others, the flange is very low and looks great. When you remodel, this sink can be undermounted. I have yet to have a customer regret having bought a quality sink.

Acrylic sinks are virtually un-stainable and easily refinished. Hot pot marks are usually removable. Lacquer thinner will soak a bowl off, but you've really got to try. Don't ask me how I know this, please. You'd have to have a fire hazard level of solvents to harm an acrylic sink.

Quartz sinks are tough, but unlike acrylic, if you do scratch them, there is no matching the factory finish once the scratch is removed if it can be.

Thanks for the replies.

I should have mentioned that my current sink is 8" deep and it fits fine. It's the 9.5" and 10" deep sinks that are pushing it.

Also, I am looking at box store type sinks. My entire condo costs what many of the kitchen remodels here cost and I don't want to over-improve it.

townlakecakes, I don't know what the valve for the dishwasher is called, but my last place had one and my parents have one, too.

Out of curiosity, why do you want a side sprayer? I never think they work as well as an all-in-one model. It is so much more efficient to be able to spray with the main faucet IMHO.

The dishwasher thing I am going to assume is and air gap valve.

I too prefer pull out faucets, versus side sprayers. But to each is own.

Here is an option. It will allow you to do it as a drop in now, and make it an under mount later.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Glacier-Bay-Dual-Mount-Stainless-Steel-33-in-4-Hole-Single-Bowl-Kitchen-Sink-in-Satin-QK053/204340124

and another one with out accesories

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Glacier-Bay-Dual-Mount-Stainless-Steel-33-in-4-Hole-Single-Bowl-Kitchen-Sink-in-Satin-Finish-QK024/204340092

Here's a double bowl cast iron.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/KOHLER-Brookfield-Drop-In-Cast-Iron-33-in-4-Hole-Double-Basin-Kitchen-Sink-in-White-K-RH5846-4-0/203337897

"Now you made me really curious!"

I adhered a vanity bowl onto the bottom of a solid surface backwards once. I must have gotten to it before the adhesive had really kicked, but I soaked it off.

Did it with a small island sink replacement several years later. I wish I had a picture of my face when I flipped that top over and the drain hole was facing me.

I was planning on a side sprayer because all of the ones I have seen integrated into the faucet are really large and bulbous and look really out of place to me. Maybe I should look again?

Oh, another reason I am wary of sprayers built into faucets - I have heard that the sprayer part often starts to drop out of the faucet on its own. That would be really annoying.