Measure both the interior & exterior sizes and compare the interior size to the sinks exterior size. Your sink basin(s) will need to fit within the sink base's interior. The rim will sit on the cabinet walls. When I was shopping for a sink, my KD told me the sink should be no wider than the cabinet (exterior) width - 1/2" We also have a Ticor sink. It's the S405D. It's exterior width is 35-1/8" and we have it in a 36" sink base. Think about where your faucet and other fittings will be (soap/soap dispenser, airswitch, instant hot water and/or cold filtered water). Be sure you have enough room behind the sink you pick for everything you're planning on. (Note that faucets can be single-hole, 2-hole, or 3-hole) Be sure you can turn your faucet on & off when it's installed...the handle should have room to move freely to both turn it on/off and to adjust the temperature. The faucet style is really dependent on your kitchen style...modern, transitional, vintage, traditional, etc. In our case, our kitchen is Transitional w/leanings toward traditional and the Kohler Vinnata I picked goes very well. If you like modern, check out the Kohler Simplice. I seem to recall quite a few people here have it and really like it. I found the best price for my faucet at FaucetDirect.com. Ditto for the DuoStrainers & GD flange. Here's a picture of my main/cleanup sink: Good luck!

Thanks again everyone! I was sort of underwhelmed finishing this one; partly because the "thrill" of remodeling isn't as great the 2nd time around, and partly because it didn't feel like a "new" kitchen because the cabinets and floors were basically the same. You all are helping remind me that it is a new space. And don't get me wrong, it's not that I think the kitchen doesn't look fancy, as but that's only b/c I put a few "bling" items in to make it look fancier than it is. The sparkly chandeliers, sink, and wood hood and backsplash (hopefully) draw the eye away from the older cabinets and older floors. Igloo, I think you could still pull off a farm sink. You'd LOVE it! Celticmoon, I thought the same thing about the FKB! What do you do when you have 2 kitchens listed under your name? (Aside from getting a therapist, that is.) Chiefneil, I can see where it looks like the stacked crown is thicker over the sink, but it's the way the carpenter made the hood. It's constructed as sort of a box, then the box indents down to the arched part. The way the crown is sitting on the upper part of the box makes it look like it's really thick crown. And the hutch height was designed solely as the "clutter zone". I learned a good lesson from the last kitchen; the busiest corner in the kitchen will quickly become the "drop zone" for daily mail, keys, cell phones, etc. I raised the height so that there would be no chance of that corner meshing with the cooking part of the kitchen. Socalthreems, I LOVE the actual stone. DH was super nervous about using dark counters, as we had light granite in the last house, and it never looked dirty. He was afraid it would show everything. But there's so much white, gold, etc, that it doesn't show any dirt at all. I don't see fingerprints or smudges either. I really really like the stone. Nellie820, I'd LOVE to see your plans! Now that I'm done here, I need to find something else to channel my energies into! amck, I hope you like the range as much as I do. I LOVE it! muscat, the floors are so weird. I really like them, but a lot of people don't. I wanted the kitchen to be a "refined rustic with a nod to the traditional". I just don't think any other flooring would give me the same look. rmlanza, I found the sink at a local builder's supply warehouse. Since I'd wanted a copper farm sink, and knew their price tag, I was shocked to see the prices they had on their granite farm sinks! I normally hem and haw about such purchases, but I bought it on the spot. It ended up being the star of the kitchen! caminnc, I think all together it was around 2-3 months. We started before we lived here, and were trying to get it all done before we moved out of the old house. That didn't happen, but we at least got the major stuff done. We were simultaneously selling our other house, and had LOADS of projects we were finishing over there as well. For about a 2 month period, we were working non-stop. Ugh. Don't EVER want to do that again. And thanks all, for the kind words about the backsplash. I'm surprised at the responses about it, and I was surprised that I picked such a simple color/design (esp. after my last backsplash!) I only recently realized why I kept gravitating toward plain white. The upper cabinets are *so* close to the countertop. My tile guy said the normal height b/w counters and upper cabs is around 18". My height is only 14.25 inches. My coffee pot barely fits! Somehow I think that I kept wanting white to help visually extend the cabinetry, so that it didn't look choppy. Claybabe, I loved my last house, until my kids started getting bigger. We really outgrew it. And I mean it when I say I *hated* cooking toward the last year we lived there. 'Course I'll probably say the same thing here, when the kids start leaving home in a few years! LOL!

I would need to see the choices and the kitchen. Black cabinets are my last choice in most cases since the gobble light and unless you have a ton of both natural and artificial lighting the black never works .All the lighting needs to be LEDs in 4000K and about 50% more pots than you would use in a white kitchen. As for the sink stainless since it looks like the faucet is both rose gold and stainless

I just put in a new kitchen with white cabinets, gold handles and my backsplash is subway tiles from Bedrosians, called Cashmere, they look more like a champagne gold. I love them. the kitchen is not completed yet! the pulls are Amerock champagne gold,