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A best of both worlds would be a flat sink that's angled/sloped towards the wall

• SideburnsOfDoom 14y ago
  I've seen those in restaurant lavatories. The disadvantage is that when filling a sink e.g. for shaving, the water pools at a line rather than a point. this is obviously not a problem in a restaurant. See the third illustration "With a flat sink, you need more water to get the same depth" - an angled flat surface would be somewhere between the two in efficiency of water use.
  • randallsquared 14y ago
    I think if I were going to shave this way, I'd use a bowl instead of putting a lot of water into a presumably-not-perfectly-clean sink. You could wash a bowl and put it away after, whereas you'd have to wash the sink immediately before each shave. If the designer of the sink expected using a shaving bowl, the flat bottom would make a lot of sense.
    • vacri 14y ago
      The piping hot water used for shaving is going to kill most wigglies.
    • SideburnsOfDoom 14y ago
      I've been thinking about why you see these in restaurants, upmarket nightclubs, corporate boardrooms, etc. IMHO it is that: 1) they look impressive 2) They look like you spent money 3) The only task that they're actually used for is washing hands. This is a different set of purposes from home use. Making your home bathroom look like a nightclub bathroom at the expense of usefulness is a particular kind of folly.
• ssmoot 14y ago
  I've seen ones like that. They've generally been stone countertops with custom sinks with low-pressure fixtures that don't have aerators. Very expensive custom work though. The fixtures alone are probably $2K. So yeah, I'll stay with my $50 Moen for awhile yet. :-)