Shopping for a single hole lavatory faucet can be tough because of the huge number of choices available.  This style of faucet has become extremely popular lately because of many creative designs, and the fact that they take up almost no space at all.  There are some tips that will guide you to the right one, which we’ll cover in this post.  Shopping for single hole lavatory faucets is usually best done online, and we’ll also show you how to save money doing this!

Finding The Perfect Single Hole Lavatory Faucet

Usually you will be shopping for a faucet either during or just after a bathroom remodel.  This is the best time because you have a clear vision of what the style of your lavatory is, making it much easier to choose a design.  It’s important that your faucet fit the style of your lavatory, or else it will stand out like a sore thumb!  Generally, the sink and other hardware will be what determine the style of the faucet.  If, for example, you have a clear glass vessel sink, you want something that will match its clean and simple design.  A plain white ceramic sink can take almost any style of faucet, and the ones that have the pop up drain tend to pair very well.

If you’re not remodeling it makes the decision a bit tougher.  You have to create a vision for what everything should finally look like in your lavatory.  It may take drawing it out, but the better you know how everything should turn out, the more successful you will be when shopping.  Most people will also replace wall hardware (towel racks and such) when upgrading their lavatory faucet, so you can work all of those designs in to create a bit more harmony.

Shopping For Single Hole Lavatory Faucets

Online is always the best place to shop for lavatory faucets.  No matter where you live, you aren’t going to be able to find the same huge selection in your town as you would be able to online.  Generally prices are similar from online to local, but there are a few things that you can do to save a ton of money.

Faucets are heavier than they look, and cost a lot of money to ship.  Shopping at an online retailer that offers free shipping is the best way to save a lot of money on your faucet.  You won’t get the same instant gratification that you would by shopping locally, but you will save a lot!

Another good way to save money on a single hole lavatory faucet is to go with the online retailers that offer wholesale pricing.  These aren’t as common as those that offer free shipping, but you can get a huge selection at a great price when you can buy straight from the factory.

The planning and research phase for your new single hole lavatory faucet are just as important as getting it installed.  Spend the time to do it right, and you will be happy with it for a long time to come!

Antique lavatory faucets are a great way to add some classic style to your home.  They have made it through a lot and have the character to show for it!  There isn’t much maintenance that goes into faucets, and not many parts to break, so old lavatory faucets usually work as well now as they did when they were new.  In this post I want to share how to find these faucets and some of the minor repairs that you might have to make.

A single hole lavatory faucet is the style that you’re most likely to find when shopping for antiques.  That’s because this was the common style then, and luckily it’s still popular now!

Finding these at antique stores is possible, but rare.  It will take a lot of trips around town to stumble across antique faucets.  Unlike vintage door knobs and vintage keys, these are much more difficult to find.  If you are lucky enough to find them it’s a good idea to buy them, even if you don’t use them.  Selling them later on online is very easy.

Shopping for antique lavatory faucets online is the best choice.  eBay always has a ton of options that you can bid on, or buy right away.  The good thing is that there are a lot of different options, so you don’t have to go with the first one that you see, instead spend the time to find the one that is actually going to work well in your lavatory.

There are other antique stores online, but many of them will have higher prices than if you shopped on eBay.  They are able to assign more accurate prices, which tend to be higher.

If you have any experience fixing a leaky faucet, you already know how to fix antique ones.  Faucet leaks are almost always due to worn out washers inside.  All it takes is removing the handles and swapping out the washers, which are available at your local hardware stores.  You now have a perfectly functioning antique faucet!

Antique lavatory faucets are an easy way to add some old school cool to your home.  Just be sure to shop around first so that you aren’t stuck with something that you paid too much for!

When shopping for a single hole lav faucet, it’s easy to be taken aback by how ridiculously expensive some of them are.  Many of the designer brands dominate the market for this style of faucet, so prices tend to be high.  Which doesn’t make much sense when you think about it, they are constructed from less raw materials than a three hole faucet is!  Their creative and unique designs are what drives the prices up, but there are some things that you can do to save a lot of money when shopping.

There aren’t many local single hole lavatory faucet stores, so you will probably have to rely on shopping online to save money.  Hundreds of different choices are available online, rather than the dozen or so that you’ll find locally.  This will allow you to hunt out the good deal, instead of settling for whatever your local store has.

In order to save money when shopping online there are a couple of mandatory steps to take.  The easiest way to save money is to find free shipping.  As more online retailers are entering the market, they are trying to figure out new ways to pull new customers in.  The simplest way for them to do this is to offer shipping deals.  When you take advantage of this you are going to save a lot of cash, faucets are deceptively heavy!  There are multiple retailers that offer this deal, so don’t jump at the first one that you see, keep shopping around for the lowest price on the faucet itself.

Factory direct shopping is also a great way to save money on single hole lav faucets.  This cuts out the middle man, and you buy directly from the manufacturer.  Also called wholesale shopping, this will get you faucets for 15-20% less than what you would pay from a standard retailer.  If you can find wholesale shopping with free shipping you have hit the jackpot!

Shopping for single hole lav faucets isn’t tough, but finding a great deal can take more time than you would like.  Start shopping now so you aren’t waiting until the last minute.  The extra time you spend will be repaid to you when you know that you’ve bough exactly what you wanted at a low price.

A single handle lavatory faucet is a great way to get a very stylish faucet to fit into a small space.  Sinks are usually designed to hold either triple or single handle faucets, and with the smaller of the two you get a ton more creative designs.  9 times out of 10, a single hole lavatory faucet is going to be a much more creative design than their bigger brethren.

This style of faucet will pack a lot of features into a very small size.  Many of them will have motion sensor on/off switches that allow you to turn the water on without having to touch the faucet at all.  One problem that you will run into with this style of faucet is that you have to choose between having hot or cold water, many of them don’t have the ability to run both.

Faucets with a single handle will be able to handle both hot and cold water.  Both lines will run in from the bottom, and the handle will move left to right to adjust the hot/cold levels.  One problem that you run into with this style of faucet is that the hot water heater will almost always kick on when the faucet goes on.  They have a hard time running only cold water.

If you are looking for something that looks great, but doesn’t take up a lot of space, a single handle lavatory faucet is exactly what you need.  They function perfectly for things like brushing teeth, washing hands, and getting a drink of water, all while looking fantastic on your counter.  Just be sure to get a design that jives with the rest of your bathroom, there are a ton of options out there, and it’s easy to get carried away with something that doesn’t work with the rest of your design!

When compared to other styles of faucets, single hole lavatory faucets tend to get the most creative designs.  Why is this?  I’m not a faucet designer, but I do have a couple of ideas why this happens, and why other faucet types don’t get the same amount of love.

Single hole lavatory faucets get creative designs because they don’t fit the traditional composition of regular faucets.  Without the hot and cold handles to accompany the spout, there are an infinite number of design possibilities.  The smaller footprint of the faucet also leads to creative ways of getting all of the function of the faucet in such a small space.

Because of this high level creativity that goes into these faucets we get designs that don’t have any handles to turn them on, ceramic spouts, hand showers, and innovative styling.  These features just aren’t found in standard, three hole lavatory faucets because there isn’t a need for them.

Another reason single hole lavatory faucets get creative designs is because they are normally paired with unique sinks.  Like bar faucets, the sink that they go with is usually far from the standard ceramic sink.  Many times, these faucets are paired with glass vessel sinks, or copper basins, so they need to be unique enough that they match the sink.

Sure, there are some boring single hole lavatory faucet designs, but since these faucets tend to cost less than their larger counterparts, it doesn’t make much sense to go with something plain.  The faucet is one of the things that stands out the most in the lavatory, so make the most of it.  Use these creative styles to help you design a bathroom that will set you apart from the every other bathroom in the neighborhood.  You’ll love it while you live there, and you’ll love it even more when the value of your home is increased when it’s time to sell!