Drop-In Stainless Steel Kitchen Sink Complete with Drip Tray
Here on our website, we’ve looked at several different types of kitchen sinks. The stainless steel drop-in sink is generally a little bit less expensive than some of the types of undermount sinks, but this particular type of sink, shown in the picture below, has a pan that is built in integral with the sink itself. This pan on the side of the sink essentially works like a drip tray for drying dishes. It’s a bit of an old-school type of fixture, but it can work well with countertop surfaces that are a bit more permeable or susceptible to water.
With most types of stone or solid surface countertops, we would just recommend an under mount sink of solid surface materials, composite materials, or even stainless steel. Here though, and it’s a somewhat unique example of a wood or tile type countertop, we might actually recommend a stainless steel drop in sink and wood or tile type countertop. Where the grout lines or the fiber of the wood themselves is more susceptible to water, it’s probably not a bad idea to have a drip tray that’s permanently installed integral with the kitchen sink.
If you look closely at the next picture below, you’ll notice that the drain orifice in the sink is off-centered on the bowl. It’s set at the middle area of the overall area of the fixture, but in the right hand corner of the sink itself. This is likely done intentionally so that it’s closer to a central layout for a plumbing rough in. If the overall sink rough and dimensions are intended to be larger than the bowl area of this sink then the off-center drain pipe would put it more closely aligned to the drain pipe that enters into the framing of the wall.
The sink mounting location and the rough-in can be staggered, somewhat, to a degree, but making lots of plumbing bends underneath of the kitchen sink isn’t always convenient for the drain itself. The plumbing supply lines, by comparison, are generally run with flexible tubing, so those can be accommodated more easily.
The particular faucet used at this sink happens to be a gooseneck type spout. It’s not a pull-down type gooseneck as is common with many contemporary gooseneck style sink faucets, but at least here the gooseneck gets a little more clearance in space to work with washing dishes.
The lower set faucets, more common in styles a few generations ago, give less space or clearance to wash dishes. Like a typical multi-nob type sink faucet though, this particular one is built with an 8-in spread. That means that the overall layout of the faucet itself and the handles to control the hot and cold water are set 8 inches on center apart from one another. A centralized escutcheon covers all of those elements where they mount the top of the sink.
We looked at this particular cabinet and shelf set up in past blog articles as well and discussed some of the customized shelving used here in this particular kitchen. This shelving is field built and not built with actual cabinet carcasses or cabinet boxes with cabinet doors. Instead, the open shelving gives a little bit of flexibility, but doesn’t often offer the concealed more minimalist layout. Open shelves can be a decent feature in some kitchens, but it does mean that the things set on those shelves will have to be more organized for it to not look like a visual eyesore.
The tray that’s built in beside the sink is set with an intentional slight grade towards the sink. This works so that as water drips off of drying dishes, the water will run down towards the sink instead of just simply pooling up into a big puddle on top of the tray.
The intentional grooves that are set into the surface of the stainless steel drying pan help with a few things. Firstly, whenever a corrugation or ridge is intentionally set into a pre-bent type of sheet metal, it inherently will provide more structural rigidity in the planar structure of the metal. So here these ridges actually help with making the tray overall more rigid and help resist bending and undulation in the surface of the metal. Even more importantly though, with drying dishes and things of that nature, these ridges allow water to drain away without the water getting caught or building up behind the surface of the dishes or drying kitchen elements.
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