When it comes to choosing between chrome and satin nickel finishes for your bathroom fixtures, it's all about personal preference and your desired aesthetic. Each has its own advantages and considerations: Chrome: Chrome is known for its high shine and polished look, which can give your bathroom a modern and sleek appearance. It's relatively easy to clean, and with regular maintenance, you can keep it looking spotless. However, as you mentioned, chrome can show water spots and fingerprints more prominently compared to satin nickel. Satin Nickel: Satin nickel has a softer, brushed appearance that can add a bit of warmth to your bathroom's design. It is generally more forgiving when it comes to hiding water spots and fingerprints, making it a practical choice for bathrooms. It can complement other satin nickel finishes you have in your house, like the door handles. Since you already have a satin nickel door handle in the bathroom and throughout your house, using satin nickel for other fixtures could create a cohesive and coordinated look. However, mixing finishes, like having chrome fixtures with a satin nickel door handle, can also be done intentionally for a more eclectic or modern design, as mixing finishes has become a popular trend in interior design. In the end, it's about what appeals to you and fits your overall design vision. Consider the style you want to achieve and how much maintenance you are willing to undertake to keep the fixtures looking their best. Both chrome and satin nickel can work well, so it's a matter of personal preference. You can't go wrong with either choice, but staying consistent with finishes can provide a more cohesive look. More details can be refered: https://rebrand.ly/f2w2dpj

Kevin, Can you tell me 2 things about your vanity? What is the open dimensions of the sinks? (width and front to back)? And, what is the width of the under sink cabinet portion (the part directly under the sink). Thanks! I'm planning 2 60" double vanities (for 2 bathrooms) and want to make sure I have right size cabinets and sinks.

Hi Alicate. Q: Yet, isn't the ORB a more modern finish and therefore [shouldn't] the silver look the best? A:Well, it depends on what you mean by "modern". If what you really mean is trendy then yes, oil-rubbed bronze is sort of modern, but if by "modern" you mean the NEWEST finish, then, no, it's not trendy at all, since ORB is a finish that was first made popular about a century ago, when people were decorating with Mission & Craftsman style furniture in fumed oak. At any rate, ORB is only truly trendy if something that's been around for a decade or more--which, by now, it has--can still qualify as a trend. The really hot trend, however--at least hereabouts--is shiny brass, the same stuff that some people sent to a landfill fifteen years ago because somebody with a warehouse full of new brushed nickel doorknobs to sell told them them that their old brass hardware brass was "dated." My, how time flies! At any rate, if you were talking about doorknobs now, I'd definitely say go with the gold-tone, because as the dark finish coating on ORB wears off, what's left resembles--you got it!--brass anyway. Now, lamps & curtain hardware don't get as much use as do doorknobs, so their finish won't wear off as fast, but I'd still get the gold, and not the silver when it's time to buy new. Here's my real advice, though: get what looks good, not what's--according to somebody with something to sell--"trendy". Or "Modern". Pay no attention to popular buzzwords.

We are building a new house and I have been wrestling with this same question. (I LOVE Emtek's Old Town crystal knobs, which come in a myriad of finishes and can be found online for 30-40% off the suggested retail.) I was flipping through a magazine last week with a big spread on Sarah Richardson's farmhouse and I realized that was exactly the look I wanted. She mixed finishes beautifully in her house. Her hinges and rectangular door rosettes are either dark oil rubbed bronze or matte black with white porcelain knobs and she has distressed gold, oil rubbed bronze, wood and painted light fixtures throughout the house. The bathrooms have silver finish bath hardware and most of the curtain rods are dark. Everything has a collected over time, not matchy matchy look to it. Gorgeous!