The undermount sink should have been attached to the counter with a bead of silicone and cleats that screw into a depression on the underside of the counter. Faucet location has no effect on this. If it was installed correctly, you'll have no issue replacing it. If it was installed differently, you might have a problem changing sinks, and may want to have your sink repaired instead. You'll have to have a plumber take a look and give you an estimate. By quartz, you mean the manufactured acrylic and stone chip counter, correct? These are a little more rigid and tougher to repair (should there be a crack) than solid surface acrylic counters, but again, as long as the sink was installed properly your counter should be just fine. I've found both Ebay and Amazon.com to be good sources for sinks and plumbing supplies in general. If you're going to choose a stainless steel sink, go for the lower guage (16 vs. 18) if you can afford it, and check out the SS sink thread (below) from a week or so ago on this forum. I have never understood why anyone with a dishwasher would want a two bowl sink, so as far as your sister's comment, it's a little outdated. In the olden days these were useful for washing dishes on one side and rinsing on the other. Today we tend to use sinks for food prep and disposal before loading the dw. Two smaller compartments make the sink less useable: which side gets the garbage disposal? How do you wash large roasting pan with that wall in the middle of your sink? I'm sure you will find the single bowl much more useful. I doubt either will have much effect on resale. Here is a link that might be useful: Stainless

Thank you to the last two posters, good advice keeps coming in. lisa sandiego, I had just seen a stainless steel light fixture similar to your three in Home Depot. I hadn't given it a second glance at the time, but now that I see how it looks in an actual kitchen, I really like the look. It is classy and streamlined. My flooring is going in tomorrow and if I find that my kitchen suddenly looks busy with my countertop and flooring and the light doesn't tie it in as I hope, I'm definitely returning to get the light like yours, which will look really good with all my stainless steel appliances and door handles. Very nice, thanks again!

ging9, Would you mind telling me how deep your cabinets are? Is it a 24" deep sink cabinet? And does your faucet work properly (does the lever go fully to the rear)? We really want the Rohl Allia but are having a horrible time trying to fit it into our 24" sink base and still have room for a faucet (especially the one we like which is similar to yours and has hot water as a push back lever like yours). Also, would you mind showing me how you mounted the sink? Did you just use the undermount kit from Rohl? Or did you have a support built underneath it somehow? Could you show me under your sink? My granite people want to leave no less than 3.5" in front of the sink and mount it with the sink kit. That leaves us a tiny little space in the rear to get in a faucet. The alternative is to get the twice as expensive (and a diff look) Franke Orca (which is what brought me to this post tonight...wanted to see what a fireclay Orca really looks like). It looks pretty nice but just isn't my number one choice. We may have to go that route to be safe on space though. Ideas would be appreciated! Thanks! Dawn

Wrote this once before signing up. Guess I have to start over.... So we got a new granite countertop (Monday morning) as our laminate one was falling apart. Planned to put our own sink back in to save on costs. We got it out the day before with much tribulation due to rusted clips and U channels. The countertop installers cut the hole for our old sink. But we had decided last night to replace that old sink. Found one the sane size and type at a good price to pickup Monday afternoon. So our new sink wasn't here for the installers. To our dismay, the new sink will not sit flush in the hole. The U channels must sit in a different place than on the old because they don't all fit in the hole. I didn't measure front to back but I did measure width. The hole is just under 32" wide and the outside of the U channels are just over 32" wide. So it doesn't fit. I figure, from reading the comments here, that we have 4 choices. 1) See if installers will come back out and enlarge the hole. 2) Figure out how to do it ourselves. (Granite?!) 3) Remove 2 U channels (I figure back and right side). 4) Return the new sink and reinstall the old one without clips.