Nick here…
As you know, we’ve been constructing an addition onto our bathroom vanity, building a butcher block countertop, etc. We’ve run into our fair share of snags along the way, but we’re taking it in stride… because Murphy’s Law is the name of the game when it comes to anything DIY. Can I get an amen?
We recently stained our butcher block counter, and sealed it with an ultra-THICK (and glossy might add) coat of 2-part epoxy (this stuff!). Be sure to check out our Butcherblock Counter Tutorial HERE!
Today we want to talk to you about a our most recent install. This Sexy Beast of a Moen faucet: Model 6111. So sleek and modern!
We chose this model because we’ll be installing a vessel sink (more on that another day), and we learned the hard way that there are special faucets for vessel sinks!
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Ok let’s get started, shall we? Faucets are simple to install, so there is no reason to fret or call the plumber (which means you no longer have to look at their plumber’s crack! Unless your into that?).
The basic premise is the same for all faucets, so this isn’t necessarily tailored to a vessel faucet. There will always be slight variations with different brands/models, but with this basic foundation of knowledge, you should be fine!
This next photo is to remind us where we came from. A moment of silence please.
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Onward.
So this faucet came with o-ring base, which means you can put that sealant away… we want to put the o-ring in the groove.
Then the base goes in the contour of the faucet! Rocket science, I’m tellin’ you.
Next pull out this spacer and nut; slide it over the stud below your counter and tighten;
Whoa WHOA… put away those guns sister. This is an o-ring construction there is no need to get a he-man armstrong on it. Snug and then some… we want to compress the o-ring, not crush it!
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This is your water fitting. It is basically a 1/2” compression fitting with a rubber seal. Do you see the black rubber seal? Ok you are going to thread these onto your shut off valves then tighten using a 5/8” wrench.
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Don’t have shut-off valves? You should install them! If you have any questions just email and I will be more than happy to walk you through the process.
Remember: don’t over-tighten; I got mine hand tight and then tightened 2 or 3 more turns. You want it to seal but not completely crush. Over tightening may result in a shortened life of the rubber seal.
Now on to the drain! Because we installed a vessel sink we bought this beauty of a drain.
This drain came with a rubber seal on top and bottom of the sink/counter. Some do… some don’t. If it doesn’t, you will need to use a healthy dose of Plumber’s Putty or Silicone.
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The rubber below the counter is most likely threaded; thread it so it is snug against the bottom of the counter and then tighten using a pair of adjustable pliers. After that we thread on the drain tube (there is also a rubber seal at this connection)
This is a slip joint… it consists of a nut and a washer. Notice the taper on the washer? You want that to act as a wedge into the mating part. So remember small taper points to threaded end.
I dry fit everything getting them into place and then tighten each slip joint. I had to install a flex tube (accordion looking tube) because I relocated my drain hole beyond what my S-trap could compensate for. Any stress in these pipes may cause a leak or shortened lifespan of slip joint washers.
Notice the S-Trap (the thing that looks like a sideways S. Contrary to popular belief it’s primary function is not to catch precious gems dropped down the sink (although this function is nice) it is to trap sewer gases from entering your house. Water fills the bottom portion creating a seal.
Once everything is tightened, turn on the water back on and check each joint for leaks. Then check to ensure that hot is hot and cold is cold. If your as paranoid about everything as me, you will repeat this process at least 3 times and then once more for good measure…and maybe every day after for at least a week… it’s ok. We support your over zealous leak detection.
Remember: Under-tightening seals my cause a leak, while over-tightening may cause a shorten lifespan of the seal. You don’t want to have to stretch your drain pipes to get them to fit; keep things loose until you have it all assembled then tighten.
Yay, you did it! That wasn’t difficult at all was it? Goodbye plumbers crack, hellooo sexy faucet!
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This is a sponsored post written by us on behalf of Moen, Inc. All opinions are 100% ours! We were truly impressed with the quality of Moen faucets. While the bulk of the industry has switched to a composite or a cheaper alloy, Moen continues to use brass internal components. Best of all they stand by their product. If your faucet ever starts leaking or if there’s an issue with the finish they will send you the parts to replace it for free, for life! I am not saying there aren’t other faucets out there that offer this service, but it always says something about a company when they are willing to stand by their product! We weren’t prompted to say any of that either! Just tellin’ it like it is. Over and out!
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Would love to win this faucet for our new kitchen! We’re moving to a 60’s original owner home in 10! days, badly needing a makeover in pretty much every room. Love your posts, so helpful and great ideas! And your girls are cuties too, bout the same age as my daughter 🙂
Love our blog Love your tutorials love the faucet. Keep it coming
Love our blog Love your tutorials love the faucet. Keep it coming
I love your blog. I am so excited for summer so that I can start working on a few of your project ideas. I would love this faucet. We are military and had to rent out house for 4 years because we could not sell it before we transferred. We moved back into the house a year ago and still trying to get things back to as we left it condition. One of the worst is our awesome Moen faucet that was brand new when we left. It took me a month to just get the hose unstuck because of the grossness. We are retired from the Navy now and trying to make our house our own once again. Thanks for putting blog. Great inspiration.
I LOVE your blog! You have a beautiful family and outlook on life. Your blog has given me lots of great ideas and inspiration! I would absolutely love to have this faucet for several reasons….1. Our kitchen is terrible and we are planning a complete remodel very soon. 2. I have already been trying to find a model of faucet that would go perfectly with our design plan (and it does!!). 3. It would be completely awesome to have this in our home because we are huge S&E fans!! Have a great week. 🙂
Mandy Skinner
I love coming to your website on a daily basis! And I love everything about you guys~ your little fam, your tutorials, your house! (I love an awesome farm house!). Anyway ~ I could greatly use that faucet… ours currently just falls off… it’s really awesome. Especially when I run a daycare here. I love our house, but we bought it last year knowing knowing we had a LOT of DIY projects ahead of us… in just about every area of the house. But that’s part of why we love it. We can’t wait to mold it into what we want, and that faucet is what I want!! 🙂 Keep up the awesome work you two!
Your tutorial was awesome! It makes me feel brave enough to try it all on my own (without my hubby). I tune in to your AWESOME blog daily to catch a glimpse of those adorable munchkins that I have enjoyed watching grow up. I NEED that faucet because my husband and I are about to venture down the owner builder road with as little financing as possible and that would be a great help! Plus, then, I could afford to also one of those beautiful vessel sinks like you! LOVE LOVE LOVE your blog!!! Thanks for always keeping it real…
I would love to win this faucet. I am new to DIYing and decided to try my hand with our dilapidated kitchen. All your tutorials have helped me out in the most spectacular way! Thank you so much.
My kitchen is tired and falling apart.
My kitchen is tired and falling apart.
I would like to win this for my daughter. Her faucet sprays all over the place! Your tutorial is very easy to follow, love the pictures.
reason I should win
#1. I, at this moment in time have an unfinished bathroom. why you may ask!??! Because I can’t decide on a faucet!!!! Been back and forth to our local hardware store and I am wanting/praying/saving for this moen faucet. Console table is antiqued and waiting to go into the bathroom. Spanish style sinks I found, oh so cheap on eBay, waiting to be mounted with loving care.
#2. I always thought the easiest way to get something done in my house, be it plumbing, wiring, painting or anything else that required tools of any kind, was to have my husband “catch me” watching “how to” videos on you tube and say I would just do it because I knew he was busy… this usually sparked a fire under his rump to get things done. With you blog, website, he is no longer scared to hand over the screwdriver to me!
PS…. babies should be in every pic on here:-)
thanks for the kick start of the creative juices!!!!!
We really need to get a new faucet mine is leaky and does not work well thanks for the great tutorial.
amy williams
sethandtjay@yahoo.com
Your tutorial is great, your girls are darling, and . . . we’re house-hunting and specifically looking for a place without an updated kitchen. We’d rather put our own stamp on the place, and starting things off with a shiny new faucet would certainly be a step in the right direction!
Our kitchen faucet just broke (kind of) it’s too drippy!
Like you, we’ll be redoing our SO out of date bathroom soon. This sleek faucet is just what the Dr. ordered!
Love your blog and your babies!
Looking good. I can’t wait to see the final finished bathroom.
I could use the faucet for the new house we just bought. We are a newlywed couple with now zero money. Not complaining. But the faucet would be much appreciated 🙂 and you guys are the greatest!
http://www.nightchayde.blogspot.com
Your tutorial is awesome! We would like to win because we are so proud that another young couple from Iowa (like us!) strive to make a 100 year old house (like ours!) modern and still honor its past. AND we currently have the same disgusting faucet in our bathroom as you took out. LOL Winning would help out a lot as we save to update our bathroom.
who wouldn’t such an awesome faucet. And now we can install ourselves since you just taught us how. I am a ‘don’t read the directions’ type gal. I would rather see a tutorial then read a no picture directions that come with the products.
One of the first things we said when we bought our house last year was “this faucet has GOT to go”, its awful! But, they are so darn expensive that we just haven’t gotten to it and now with a little one on the way saving $250 would be awesome! P.s. I’m hoping for twins, am I nuts?
Very good tutorial! I would love love love this faucet! Ours is leaking and the spray nozzle isn’t attached.
Your kids are adorable too!
Love the tutorial! Going to need this in the next month.
We SOOOO need this faucet. We’re $30k into a COMPLETE house remodel and have RAN OUT of money in the budget to buy a kitchen faucet! We’re considering using an old one from one of my father’s rental units! That’s how desperate we are.
Your tutorial really is so easy; thanks much!
Your babes are adorable; my babes are too, but that faucet… *sigh*
You had me at ‘fingerprint resistant’. Really, what can be better than that? Thanks for the give away.
freeportd(at)yahoo(dot)com
I need this faucet! My current faucet is so old and gross looking. This one would bring some much-needed updating to my kitchen!
I’m sure your tutorial is great, but that’s what I have my own husband for! My kitchen faucet was a reject one that I got on discount, seemed like a good idea at the time. Now it doesn’t stay on, I guess it’s good for water conservation! Thanks for the giveaway!
Hey! My fiancee and I just bought a complete fixer upper that we’re trying to get into shape before the wedding! The sink is ALMOST as beautiful as your darling offspring 😉
I would love to have this faucet! Reason #1 we bought our house 2 years ago and it has all original stuff from the late 60’s when it was built. #2 The original side sprayer is not good and only works 1/2 the time. example: recently I tried playing a joke on my husband (because we have a friendly war going on) by taping the sprayer handle down so he could not see it and when he would turn on the water to wash his hands he would get all wet…hilarious right??? or not.. because the sprayer barely worked there for I wasted my “turn” in the war!! Grrr… that darn sprayer!
P.S.. Your lovely ladies are sooo adorable I wish I had two of my own!
I am in the middle of a renovation, sink is the next thing on the list. I would love to have a beautiful new faucet. Love your blog!
Ok- this tutorial looks manageable, I LOVE your children (have a daughter just a month older who looks like one of yours), and I would appreciate this sink for use whenver we move into our own house a quadzillion years into the future. Thanks for your great blog!
We need a new kitchen faucet soo bad I replaced the parts inside the handles and that stopped that leak and now its leaking from the stem!
Amber
We are building a new house soon and would love to have this for our new kitchen! Great tutorial!
We are moving soon and I think this faucet would look great in our new kitchen! I found your blog through my sister-in-law and I love hearing about your home and your babies :).
I thought I would tell you jut what you want to hear today! Your tutorial is sooo easy! Your little offsprings are to die for cutie pies, and I have been living with a broken kitchen faucet since June, so I would love to win this! BTW, I recently finished my faux painted subway tile backsplash in my kitchen, and I got the whole inspiration from you guys! It turned out AWESOME and I am gonna do the big reveal next week. I will send you guys some pictures!
Great tutorial!
Our kitchen faucet….is one with a pull out nozzle, however the rubber on the pull out nozzle….has a hole…real classy looking, lol!!
I’ve been wanting to replace the faucet for a while now…but it never seems to be in our budget, so if I win a new faucet….I’d be doing a happy dance all day!!
Our has has been a work in progress for a while now…but slowly…we are getting it to finally be “ours”.
We just bought our first home (!) and everything is original from 1978. I think our kitchen faucet could use an upgrade!
shannoncarman at yahoo dot com
First of all, I love your entire page, but especially your tutorials, like the one above, because they are so clear and thorough unlike some other pages. Your daughters are actually only a few months older than my baby girl, and I LOVE to look at all of your pictures, and all of your different posts about them, you seem like a super great momma! 🙂
But I’d LOVE to win this because my husband and I just bought our first home one year ago, and its an older, and fixer upper.. we have gradually done more and more, and we are actually fixing to be doing the floors and the counters and sinks in the kitchen! (what a coincident, right? its like fate! ;)lol )
Love<3
I love all of your tutorials, they are easy to follow and you take the time to photograph along the way! The ONLY thing missing from your tutorial posts are pics of your little darlings. Good thing you make up for it with camera dumps and monthly letters. 🙂
My husband and I have been working on our kitchen for almost a year. Countertops, sink & faucet are left!
We need a new faucet because we are house shopping and looking at fixer-uppers. Let’s just say the faucets in 100% of the houses we have looked at so far would need replacing. I love retro, but………..
Love this!! We so need a new faucet! You guys are so talented!
Great tutorial Nick! I’ve long been a believer in doing basic plumbing myself. Tutorials like yours are helpful to so many 🙂
I need that faucet because I love having a sprayer, but am DONE with the poor quality of the separate sprayers available. Plus, that faucet is gorgeous – as is the new one in your bath!
And yes, your girls are beautiful!
Great tutorial!
Your tutorials are always great, the pics and explanations are very easy to follow. I have needed a new faucet for some time now so this giveaway comes at a great time. So I am going to pray real hard until the giveaway is over. LOL Thanks for the chance.
smjohns63 at yahoo dot com
What a super tutorial!! We could use fabulous faucet to replace the one that keeps leaking in our kitchen. Thanks for the opportunity.
Maybe with the tutorial my husband and I could manage to change a faucet–we have a couple that need done!
I’m looking forward to seeing the completed bath (as I’m sure you are as well). I could use this faucet because my current one is a disgusting leaky mess.
Phall0106@yahoo dot com
Your tutorial actually makes me think that I could install a faucet! Anyway, I would love to win this faucet. I’ve been planning to redo my kitchen pretty soon and would love to have this faucet to use!
The tutorial was easy, your kids are cute and our kitchen faucet is gross.
I’ve had a new bathroom faucet (the old one is the twin to your old one) sitting in a box in the hallway outside the bathroom for a couple of years. Waiting. Waiting for my brother (and his wife) to fulfill his Christmas gift of a “handyman for a weekend”…from more than a couple of years ago. But now, after seeing your tutorial, I may just have to do it myself! Worst case scenario, I mess it up, have to brush my teeth in the kitchen sink, and can guilt my brother into finally installing it for me (and maybe the new toilet guts, too… and the showerhead…). As for that absolutely gorgeous faucet, well… my kitchen sink is very similar to my bathroom sink (the faucet itself is a little longer), and the sprayer has never worked. My kitchen is pretty outdated, and a new faucet could be the kick-start I need. And, if I can manage the bathroom sink on my own, there’d be no stopping me!
I love ALL of your tutorials-the pictures are GREAT!! (the more the better!)
AND your babbies are sooo beautiful!!
Too much flattery?? Nooooo!!!
I already follow you two on the FaceBook.
I would love to use that faucet in the house I hope to build in the next year!! It would be awesomeness!
Because I love it!!!!
My kitchen faucet is broken and it leaks! Help me! Also, I’m a teacher and can’t afford nice things like this.
Hi! Thanks for the great tutorial! I’ll use it when I get a new faucet 😉
jeanmarie80(at)Hotmail(dot)com
Are you serious! Ha ha I have a handy man over right now putting in my new kitchen faucet (that looks very similar to the one you are giving away) and to kill time I decided to read your blog, up pops this entry, how crazy is that. If only this had came a week earlier, I could have had me a free faucet and a tutorial on how to put it in. Love your blog, the girls are getting so big. I only wish you lived closer so you could paint my backsplash.
Are you serious! Ha ha I have a handy man over right now putting in my new kitchen faucet (that looks very similar to the one you are giving away) and to kill time I decided to read your blog, up pops this entry, how crazy is that. If only this had came a week earlier, I could have had me a free faucet and a tutorial on how to put it in. Love your blog, the girls are getting so big. I only wish you lived closer so you could paint my backsplash.
Our bathroom faucet looks just like the one you pulled out. Long live the 80s. Not. Just bought the house and would love to be able to put in a shiney new one and send the old one to faucet graveyard.
Your tutorials are not only easy, they are fun to read. That is a very hard accomplishment! I am planning on renovating our tiny master bath and that would include a new sink, but I really want to get the best faucets possible. Our home was built in 1966 and I believe most of the faucets were the originals. They were by Moen and were still in very good shape! Quality is very important and and Moen seems to fit that requirement!
Your tutorials are great and I enjoy seeing you transform your home. We just moved into our second home and the kitchen sink and appliances definitely need updating! A new faucet would be just the jewlery I’m looking for to start!,
All of your tutorials are so easy to follow!! I just need to finally someday get around to doing some of your projects at my own home.
This faucet could be the beginning of a beautiful thing for our kitchen, which we are getting ready to renovate!
Thanks for all of your hard work and sharing!
jennifermiller811@gmail.com
This would be the icing on the cake for my new kitchen remodel….done my me….Beautiful. Thanks for another great tutorial.
Great tutorial! I’m getting ready to rip out our old back splash and put in Subway tile. A new faucet would look fantastic.
Love this tutorial! I was just at lowes yesterday trying to gain some sink education since we just bought our first home and are working towards making updates on our own! Amazing how many trips to the home improvement store “Mr. Murphy” can cause you 🙂 This fixture is beautiful and would be wonderful to win given all the other expenses going into our home improvement journey! I had no idea about the S-tube’s function other than catching things in the drain! and how great is it that they have flexible piping now! New to your blog and definitely already liked you guys on facebook. Can’t wait to continue reading more!
My current kitchen faucet is old and leaky. This would be a great way to jump start the kitchen reno. Love your twinsies and great tutorial! If I win, I could totally do this by myself!
I reallllly need this faucet! My current faucet has a pull out spout, but it has been over-stretched and my daughter is constantly leaving it floating in dirty water! Nice, right? Gross! If you pull it out, push it back in, people!!!!
Karen Campanaro at cdotkaren09atyahoodotcom
Let me try again: 1. Tutorial is great. I think I (not handy whatsoever) could follow it. 2. Your offspring are delightful. 3. My husband and I do not like our current kitchen faucet. We would love to get one like this!
very nice tutorial–And I would love the faucet to land at my home! We moved into our home about 6 years ago and between this and that ($$) have not done any major renovation. I would like to begin with the kitchen and this faucet would certainly be the centerpiece! Thanks for your blog–love reading it.
Great tutorial! It will really come in handy for my husband when I win that faucet!! 🙂 I would definitely be putting that baby in my kitchen!! Right now we have one of those super old school faucets that doesn’t even have a spray nozzle with it (you know that little spray thing that is connected to your faucet that sits next to it and when you push the spray button it transfers the water from the faucet to the the spray thingy?). As you can tell I have no idea what that thing is called. But I sure would love to have one!! It would make washing the dishes (which I already HATE to do) so much easier and quicker. BTDubs…your little girls are totally adorable!!!
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Perrrrfect! We’re going to be remodeling our kitchen soon and we’ll be needing one of those!
hey guys! if i won that faucet i would give it to my mom (i am 20 ad i live with her so what am i going to do with one? lol) anyway she is re-doing our kitchen and this would look amazing in it!!!
p.s. the tutorial is so easy a college kid (like me) could do it 🙂
Oh I would love this please! My kitchen faucet is leaky and stained and I could use a new one so bad!
My kitchen faucet hurts me everyday.. yet I can’t seem to learn from my mistakes and walk away… I think this is the nudge that I need.
I’d love to do a kitchen redesign and why not start with the faucet?!? The tutorial was awesome and I could use this fancy faucet to get pots and pans under the facuet to clean. The extra room looks great!
Your tutorial was great. It always surprises me how difficult people think replacing a faucet can be. Thanks for sharing how DIY it can be. Your children are super cute! We are in dire need of a new kitchen faucet. Since having our first son on 12/30/12 our cheapo faucet has started to faulter under the ton of uses involved with an infant’s care… bottles, bottles and more bottles in need of cleaning. Thanks for sponsoring such a contest. Have a good day.
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I need this faucet because the one in my kids bathroom leaks and mostly because it is beautiful!!
Hello! We sooo need a new kitchen faucet. I actually detailed the fact that our entire kitchen needs to be scrapped just yesterday in my blog post. Our faucet is the original 1970’s faucet that came with the house. Not only is it ugly, but it also leaks from the top. So, picture if you will our gross old faucet with water deposits crusted all over it. If that wasn’t enough, the screen on it is messed up. Basically everytime I do dishes I get completed doused in sprayed water. Yeah, it is bad…
I always love your tutes…I found your blog by searching for creative back slpash ideas, and found the painting you two do. I have gotten rather inspired by your work and am currently in the process of updating the kitchen in my house, on a very limited budget. Everything I am DIYing it. I’ve found that the picture I have in my head never quite goes that way in reality. :/ On to why I need this faucet; Imagine if you will circa 1970 decorating colors…my kitchen sink is brown with some nasty ol’ gashes down to the cast iron and the faucet is right there along with it! Looking at the cost of these faucets on Lowe’s website, uh, yeah. Too rich for my blood right now. I have a sink that I got at a Habitat Restore & this faucet would be the shiznit to add to it! Hope you pick me! 🙂
I’ll start with the MOST IMPORTANTLY first…My Kitchen Sink is TERRIBLE! The sink is new but the fake crystal faucet, which you could find at a dollar store, just ruins the whole kitchen…no matter what i can do or afford at this point. Secondly…your kids are ADORABLE!!! In every pic u load, there’s so much personality between the two. I love that u capture their individuality and not as “twins”. Last but not least, ALL your tutorials are beyond Great. Step-by-Step pics help so much (at least to a newbie like me 🙂 I’m just mad that I didn’t find your blog sooner…your tutorials make me feel like I can be Martha Steward and Bob Vila’s love child…and for that I am truly grateful! Good luck to everyone!
Your tutorial was super simple to understand even for someone who doesn’t know anything about any type of plumbing! (That is including two of us that live in our household!) I would absolutely love that facet in our home. I have one that doesn’t have a sprayer and it would be wonderful to have to help keep the sink clean! Besides, mine is as old as the hills! Soooooo pick me!!!
I love the faucet! I need it cause we are just about to buy our first house and would love to be able to remodel a little!
Love, Love, Love this faucet. We are wanting to replace our kitchen sink & faucet for some time now just saving some dollar bills y’all! This would make that transition so much quicker!! Wish I would have seen this before installing a new faucet in my sister-in-laws house, no shut off valves. Thankfully the guys at Lowes were super helpful and we got it done in no time!!
I would love/need to have this cause my current crappy kitchen faucet leaks everywhere! ugg … makes it hard to keep everything clean
The tutorial was great! The pictures make it easy to understand so I think I could do it all by myself! I need this faucet because my adorable offspring,a boy, accidentally broke the handles on my kitchen faucet and while i guess i could just replace the handles, I haven’t had the budget to replace the entire faucet like I really want to do..and this faucet is the one I absolutely want for my kitchen! Thanks for the tutorial and chance to win!
My husband would just LOVE this to shut me up, that drip is driving me mad. Awesome tutorial!!
Your tutorials always make things look so easy peasy, I love that! I’ve been able to do several projects from your blog, and this would be a great one too! Unfortunately, I can’t use the faucet where I live- we rent 🙁 – but my parents happen to be in the throes of a major remodel. This is the exact type of faucet they’re wanting! And with my new-founded knowledge, I could actually help install it for them! You guys are awesome with all your give-aways, thanks for giving us the chance to win.
Easy-peasy! I could probably do it, but I’ll let my husband do the install if we win.
Your girls are adorable!
And I already follow you on facebook 🙂
I am getting ready to install some concrete countertops and a new kitchen faucet. I was already eyeing a Moen spot resistant model almost exactly like this one! After looking through your tutorial I feel more confident that I can DIY it myself since my hubby is deployed. Enjoy those cuties!
Wow, I’m calling you the next time we have a plumbing project! Let me just say, if I posted a picture of our current faucet you would probably feel bad and try to finagle the contest so we would win (It’s gross). It’s not that we can’t afford a new faucet 😉 It’s the idea of my husband trying to install it.
Your offspring are ADORABLE and I’m looking forward to seeing more pictures of them playing outside soon.
I so need this faucet! My kitchen isn’t going to get a makeover anytime soon, but a new faucet would be a wonderful replacement for my calcium clogged current version!
Great job! Our kitchen faucet is the last one we have to replace in this house, but it’s just not going to be in the budget any time soon. And that is really unfortunate because the sprayer is constantly stuck to “spray” mode! Not a pleasant surprise when you blearily try to rinse something in the morning and get an impromptu shower!
Love the humorous tutorial, but when I win, I won’t be needing it as my hubby is handy 😉 Maybe I should refer him to it though! I would love this faucet because our kitchen sink and faucet look to be the originals. Eewwww. So, fingers crossed!
Of course the very best part of your blog is the antics of your precious girls! It’s been so fun to watch them grow up. Great DIY instructions…going to send this addy to my sister! And I would love to have a new faucet!!
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Because our stalled kitchen remodel could use a jumpstart!
I imagine the tutorial is just PERFECT…but thankfully I’ll never have to use it since that’s what my hubby is for! Your girls are adorable and have such a wonderful love story from their parents! Finally, we’re building a new shack, and a new faucet would surely come in handy-dandy.
-andi (ha…handy-dandy-andi…) 😛
i need this facucet!! please…. we are about to design a new kitchen that is much needed and this wopuld be great- I found you a while back and cried like a baby when i read about your IVF- i had one too and i have a beautiful miracle (now 6) – I felt so connected to you the minute I read that and now I continue to stalk! 🙂
Jodi
So in following your rules…
1. Your tutorial was totally easy! Do not under-tighten, do not over-tighten… Got it!
2. Your girls are absolutely adorable! I really love the blankie to the face pictures during snuggle times. Just priceless!
3. I need this faucet because the one in my kitchen is the original 1970’s ICK. This new faucet would make things much easier (like using the pull down hose to fill my husband’s coffee pot that is right next to the sink).
You are a wonderful inspiration to all the awkward mommy DIY’ers out there. Love your blog! (That’s the flattery portion, no extra points but it’s all true!)
I really need this faucet to give my sink a face lift!!!
carriesummerlin@yahoo.com
I need this faucet…our new house has the ugliest faucet ever and it does not work properly…we need to buy one, but they are expensive and I am saving up! I love your blog by the way…oh and quick tid bit ( I was born in Waterloo!)
I love this faucet and I would LOVE to have this in my kitchen =) And your kids are cuties! 😉
You guys are the best. Always have great tutorials. Of course, I’m obssessed with your daughters and how cute they are, duh!
I need this faucet in the worst way. We bought a house last year that is stuck inthe 70’s. We are slowly bringing to present time. And who can’t use a free faucet, right!
Thanks for the chance to win!
we are about to move into a new house and i would LOVE this faucet instead of the cheap one the builder chooses… haha and your girls are adorable!! 🙂
Oh how I would love a fancy dancy faucet like that. The tutorial is wonderful and very informative, could’ve helped me a few months ago when I had to replace a faucet and the drains on my kitchen sink.
Here’s the deal, we have a fantastice new ultra deep sink (great for big pots and junk) BUT our faucet doesn fit it! it hangs too close to the sink so getting anything large down in or out of there is a struggle. Our faucet DOES, however, come with a great sprayer nozzel, which leaks. This means that our sprayer A) gets zero use and B) ALWAYS has to hang in the sink when the water is on, or it drips down the hose underneath the counter for a stinky wet mess-BOO!
At this point, I hate sprayers and all the back spray mess they cause anyways so that soap dispenser would be a might fine fit in addition to the other obvious reasons WE NEED THIS FAUCET!
That, and even MY husband can pull off the install with your super easy instructions. Did I mention your girls are growing up beautifully?? The are 🙂
Your tutorial was so easy to understand …. Eh! Who am I kidding? I’ll probably still get someone else to do it for me 🙂
Your girls are very, very cute. I had 4 daughters. Not all at once though. That would have been a nightmare.
And…I need this faucet because … I’m cheap. I bought a crappy one when we built our house. I’ve already had to replace it once (with another cheap-o one so basically I’ve probably already spent more than this nice one would have cost…so much for being cheap).
I love the butcher block counter. I never even once imagined that you could make them yourself.
Hey guys! Great post as usual. Always so much fun to see the transformation. I am a little curious about the butcher block countertop and am looking forward to when you do your tutorial on it. Do you feel it was cost effective to go this route? How much did it cost you? I want to do them in my kitchen and I happen to have a handy husband named Nick too. 🙂 and that faucet would look pretty stellar with it.
Awesome tutorial – you make this look much less intimidating than I would have thought. This faucet would look gorgeous in the kitchen remodel I’m planning for later this year!
My kitchen faucet is from the 60’s at best, and I have no sprayer. This would help me bring my kitchen up to at least the 2000’s if not 2013! Love your bathroom btw.
We need a new faucet in a bad way, you see we are where you were, but the silicone nasty all around the sink is in fact, NASTY! If I’m going to redo that, I’d love me a shiney new faucet. the end.
sweet tutorial! your offspring ARE adorable, i almost named my four year old paisley but my husband said no cause he knew someone with the last name paisley. and…..AND…..my husband literally just took apart our kitchen sink yesterday because the faucet quit working so this has to be fate right? holly w.
Love the tutorial – esp. the note about not having to see anymore plumber’s crack….haha! We found the perfect “new”sink at a thrift store, but have been waiting for the funds to get a faucet. It’s like this giveaway was meant for us. Now if only we win. Enjoy your blog and watching your adorable littles grow into even cuter toddlers!
Redoing the kitchen…this would be wonderful and with your tutorial I could install it myself!!!!
We need a new kitchen faucet as we’re planning to replace our sink this summer (along with a few other minor kitchen changes). I always think of the kitchen as the heart of a house and ours isn’t quite in line with our usage and preferences.
I need a new faucet! I’m in the middle of my kitchen update. Just finishing up staining the kitchen cabinets from builders grade oak and trying to timeline new countertops to get rid of our white formica circa 1988! This faucet would be perfect (and help me save on my budget!) Check out my cabinet update at ataleoftwochairs.wordpress.com
Makes me much more confident that I can figure out how to replace my bathroom faucet. And I would love a new kitchen faucet too. Well, to be honest, I would like a whole new kitchen…but in lieu of that, a new faucet would be nice 🙂 Thanks!
I need the kitchen faucet because mine is sad. Like, before photo sad.
That does look easy, I bet I can even do that with a new baby in the house! WE just bought our first home and are getting ready to start to make it ours! this would be an awesome faucet for the kitchen!
Amanda
I bookmarked this page so I can go back to a wonderfully put tutorial, whenever I do get my faucet replaced. Only been thinking about it for months. I love how cute your babies Are. I have a 3 year old girl. I just love spending as much time as possible with her. And I know it’s the same for you. (: I need a new faucet because the one I have is leaky, old, ugly. The hand sprayer doesn’t work, and to turn it on and off you’ve gotta move the handle in all different positions hoping water stops running. And to try and get it to a perfect temperature, prepare to scald you’re hand a few times before getting it in the perfect position to wash dishes.
I need a sexy beast of some sort in my household…..have pity on me …
It just so happens that about a week ago, our faucet decided that its hose wanted to snap. Now we have no kitchen faucet. 🙁 Anyways, I LOVE your blog and your girls are so precious!
I NEED this faucet! We had a faucet like it in our last house, and now we have a boring old kitchen faucet in this house. It adds so much character to a kitchen, and I love it when people “oooh” and “aaaah” over it when they visit. 😉 Thanks for the tutorial (lord knows I need one, LOL) and for your great site! I’m so glad I found it!
So need a faucet for our kitchen since we literally don’t even have a kitchen, or even a sink at this point. We purchased an late 1800’s Greek Revival (https://www.facebook.com/OurGreekRevival) and it had NO kitchen..:0( I have been preparing meals using the top of my washer/dryer along with using them as a place to dry dishes once I wash them in a temp utility sink since the beginning of February..uugghh! I REALLY need a nice faucet. I also love the fact your tutorial is easy enough for me to follow and possibly install myself while the hubby is working. Wouldn’t that be a nice surprise for him, something else he wouldn’t have to add to his list of stuff to do..;0)
Ooooh! I need a new faucet and your tutorial makes me confident I could install it!
I love it 🙂 our bathroom would be so happy to have such a pretty faucet 😀 it would do WOHOOOOO ! And tutorial was great !
My facuet dosen’t extend so I can rinse the whole kitchen sink.
Our house was built in the 1920’s, and remodeled in the 1950’s, so let’s just say that it’s time for some new hardware. 😉 But your girls are incredibly adorable too! 😀
Because my faucet won’t stop drip drip dripping!
Pick me ! Pick me! As donkey says in Shrek. My needs for this faucet are high on the list as we bought this home with a 1991 wooden laminate countertops, oak cabinetry, a Tuscan faux painted terrorized (ahem) I mean texturized finsih, and cream lace curtains to boot! Weeps. It’s gonna take a lot of $$$ to modernize our 90’s kitchen but starting with a clean modern faucet would be a great start! Did I mention the current one leaks and sprays all over the wooden laminate so in a way its a double curse. Hope to win!!!!
This is beyond a shadow of a doubt one of the best tutorials I’ve seen. I even learned something new and I’ve been DIY’ing for YEARS. I wish I would have known about the flexible tubing when I replaced the vanities in both bathrooms!
I would love to win this because replacing the sink and the faucet are one of the things left to do on my kitchen remodel. In a house of 5 (two of them small children) I really need something that resists fingerprints so that I’m not in the kitchen cleaning the faucet ALL the time! 🙂 Fingerprints drive me crazy!
because a new shiny kitchen faucet would go great with my still great looking painted backspalash.
This was a very clear tutorial. I appreciate ALL the pictures – that helps SO much.
I NEED this kitchen faucet like you wouldn’t believe. The previous owner of our home installed the faucet backwards somehow – yeah – you push the lever back to turn it off, instead of forward. Because we’ve put up with this for too long sometimes I do it backwards at other people’s house. HELP!!
Oh my! Am I the first to comment? You two are so awesome. Your tutorials are perfect – you use language that even old farts like me can understand! This faucet would look perfect in front of my BEAUTIFULLY painted backsplash (thanks to you and Nick!) And your girls are ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE. I look forward to pictures of them. Sooooo, pick me!!!
Because my kitchen faucet is a lot like you called your old bathroom faucet, ew!
Jaren