That’s a lot of rip the walls open and reconfigure plumbing. The expense of that is your real barrier.

That sink will easily fit on a 16" countertop. You can pull it forward; even hang the front of the sink past the countertop. Mine looks fine like that.

I have no plumbing expertise but I have been in some vintage bathrooms in Los Angeles which have the sink extending out from either side of the vanity.

Faucet will have to either be wall mounted or mounted off to one side of the sink. Dimensions are critical as is the total design of the bathroom.

Thanks for the tips re the height, position of the taps and the aerator. I will keep that in mind when sourcing faucets. At this point we are leaning toward wall mounted faucets. That sink explosion looks very scary, I hope you weren’t hurt. Who knew something like that was possible?

Wait a minute...Everyone is talking about vessel sinks. You do NOT have a vessel sink, you have a semi-recessed sink. They had a 2.5" hole in their countertops for their drain, and that is all the sink took. Yours takes a big hole. Half of your sink is below the counter top. Unfortunately, the diagram does not indicate what the size of the sink is at the point where the sink goes under. It gives you the dimensions of the sink at the rim. This is meaningless.

The limitation you will have with this sink is how far from the edge of the counter top you can cut the sink hole. If you are using wood with a laminate surface, you can get maybe as little as an inch to and inch and a half. If you want stone or quartz you are going to be told by the fabricator that you have to have 3" between the edges and the hole. Front and back. So, for your 16" counter, that means that the hole cannot be more than 10" front to back. Different fabricators are going to tell you different numbers, though, so don't take my 3" as gospel. Call your store and ask. Your sink is no different than putting in a small undermount sink. Get more specs on it and find out the dimensions of the hole that has to be cut for it. Download installation instructions. That is where you should find this info.

I am also limited to a 16" counter and I may need the sink to work as a wheelchair accessible sink someday. Meanwhile, I want it to be comfortable for my arthritic body that cannot bend in the morning. I have been planning my bathroom for four years and it is going to start construction on Monday. I have looked at every sink online from every company I could find. I ended up with a sink that protrudes out in front of my counter but otherwise sits just above the counter. I could not get the local fabricator to talk to me, so I don't know if I will have a 4" piece seamed in behind my sink, or if they will attempt to do my counter in one piece. It will be 16" deep and 65" long, and the sink takes up a 23 x 12" chunk of counter space. So that little 4" by 23" piece behind the sink may be seamed in, holding two other pieces together.

I am designing the vanity and had narrowed it down to four possible sinks. I had questions about how close to the edge cuts or holes could be cut and if pieces could be seamed in like I described above. I could not design the vanity without a couple of answers. So I typed up a sheet for each of four sinks, using diagrams like yours above. I asked one or two detailed and specific questions about using each sink in a narrow vanity. The stone store sent my four sheets to the fabricators, so I could find out what my options are and decide which sink to use. Their answer? "$2850." Not one answer to a single question I had asked. So I bought the most foolproof sink I could. My contractor, who is building the vanity, starts Monday. I learned a couple of weeks ago that the fabricator that gave me no answers was fired by Cambria. A local stone guy told me they do this periodically "to keep the prices up by allowing only one fabricator in each area." Luckily, my contractor uses a supplier who gets their Cambria from a distant fabricator. I am going to have to let him work it out. We will do the vanity design together and he will figure out how the sink and counter work.

SKMom, That is a very handsome vanity your hubby made, and his brother's solution for your faucet is perfect! May I ask the species of wood he used for the vanity?

Thanks, SKMom, I was going to ask my contractor tomorrow if I could have real walnut in my bathroom, cost-wise. He is making the vanity that we are designing together. I thought that yours looked like walnut!