Hi suzatwork, Sorry I missed your original post from June 3rd! It was a shock to pull up GW tonight and see this old thread from early April at the top of the list again! :-) So... I can answer your question. After much hemming and hawing and debating and mild cussing and indecisiveness, I wound up going with the Ticor S105-8. My debates back and forth were so inconclusive that I wound up putting a picture of both sinks (S105-8, 405D) side by side in a single JPEG on my webserver and showing them to about a dozen different friends/family members. About 8 or 9 voted for the S105-8, and about 3 or 4 voted for the Ticor. It truly came down to this: do the benefits of the huge 21" left sink outweigh the negatives of the small 10" right sink? In the end, to me, they did not. Now, as of two days ago, my countertop and S105-8 sink are installed! :-) I will say this much, after seeing the sink in-person, in place: it is plain as day to me that a 10" right sink would be very difficult to use in any normal fashion. Normal plates (often about 12" wide) would not fit whatsoever -- you'd basically be resigned to using it purely for soaking silverware or peeling potatoes (if you do that sort of thing in a sink), etc. Is the 17-3/4" left of the S105-8 big enough? I sure think so. It's significantly bigger than most any other non-single bowl sink I've seen --- most people I know seem to have 50-50 double bowls that are 15" wide or so. Not having used my sink yet, of course, I won't know for sure for a little longer. My thoughts at this point however --- I am very glad I got the S105-8, and I would probably get a huge single bowl sink before getting the 405D, simply because I can't picture that tiny 10" right side being useful in very many situations. Obviously a number of people here on GW have the 405D and love it so I am by no means slamming the 405D -- it just truly comes down to "how do you use your sinks?" Frankly and honestly? My biggest regret is not making the center kitchen cabinet wider -- if I could do it over again, I would have made the kitchen cabinet larger than 36", and instead gotten a 2-bowl that was like 22" on the left and 14" on the right (if something like that exists!) But my kitchen's shape is funky and I'd lose valuable counterspace if I did that, so, in the end, I'm really quite happy with the choice of the S105-8. The 17-3/4" left bowl seems perfectly large enough to me, and it is DEEP too, since it's an undermount sitting underneath a 3cm thick slab of soapstone. The one question you have to ask yourself, before getting the S105-8: "do I have to be able to lay most large cookie sheets completely flat on the bottom of my large sink for soaking purposes?" If so, the S105-8 is not for you. It seems there's a good number of cookie sheets that are 18-20" long, and so they will not lay flat in my sink. Does that irk me at all? Yeah, probably a little. They would fit and lay flat in the 405D. But... in the end, that positive didn't outweigh the negative of a really tiny right sink that is narrower than my 11" foot (!) How many times am I really going to have the need to soak a cookie sheet underwater like that? I use aluminum foil over my cookie sheets when i bake anyways, so having to soak crud off them is not really a concern. So, after this long-winded response that probably as you bored to tears :-) .... in the end, I'm glad I went with the S105-8 over either the 405D or a large single bowl, and am happy with the choice. But to me the ideal is to have a 42" sink cabinet and get the best of both worlds -- at least 22" on the left, and maybe 16" on the right, something like that. :-) I've promised sw_in_austin and a few others that I'll have pics up today or tomorrow, so you can see then for yourself what it looks like. Cheers, Supra92

Nicole: If the end pieces I pictured above were missing, you'd be looking at an exposed cabinet style and the top and bottom rail on each end and a hole between the three. The drawer end covers the void and makes your eye continue the line from the doors upward. A flush piece in the void would have to fit perfectly, be finished matched, would not continue the line, and would therefore look stupid. You're not going to find any pictures because no one would ever go through that much work for something that's not going to look good. Here's a full size 33" apron sink properly mounted in a 36" cabinet. The distance from the cabinet end to the sink apron end will be 3" on your job, not the 1 1/2" pictured here which I admit doesn't look too bad. That sink was replaced by this short apron Elkay Quartz Luxe. The bottom of the apron now lines up with the adjacent drawer bottom, and there is virtually no cabinet face exposed which I think looks better. I made the customer find a factory painted color match trim (you provide, you agree color matches) which I installed above and flush with the top of the middle rail to fill the gap. That didn't have to fit nearly as nicely as flush side fillers would have to, because only the person reaching under the sink will ever see it.

I am always standing at my 33" single sink and saying how much I love my kitchen. Such a simple thing that makes such a big difference. Even DH likes it because we can both stand at it and do two different things at the same time. As far as cleaning the stainless grid, I fill the sink until it is completely immersed in hot water and add a splash of chlorine bleach, let it sit for 10 minuets. Then I rinse. Presto, clean grid.

After getting the sink installed I'm regretting not purchasing a self-trimming apron front sink instead. When the contractors cut the cabinet, it left a small gap around the sink edges (and a few chips too). The contractor says they'll cover it with scribe molding so you won't see it, and hopefully that will resolve the issue. Wonder if other folks here with this sink or similar ones have had the same issue? Video showing the gaps around the sink here: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AmD8KjGtqRzxjohVhtoxF_BKmAksdQ?e=N315sO