1946 American brand kitchen
Can you believe it? You can still get the exact faucet required for a vintage American-Brand kitchen drainboard sink. It’s available here from Locke Plumbing. The owners tell me they still sell quite a few of them, including to lots of folks in Europe. Click on the thumbnail of the faucet for sale – you can see it’s designed to nestle right into the backsplash of the sink top. I am told it does not fit other sinks, so no need to go there. Cool, huh? I just love having found this – thanks again go to Russell for turning us on to Locke Plumbing. Remember folks, they are also great if you want to fix a particular brand of vintage toilet.
The also are good go-to’s for:
- Hard to find toilet seats
- Bathroom lavatory faucet with pull-out shampoo sprayer
- Retro-style Delta tub and shower faucet set-up
- And remember, Russell raves about their system to connect you with hard-to-find toilet parts.
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So, are the drainboard sinks still available somewhere? That would make a nice setup with my soon to be install Geneva kitchen.
Joe, as far as I know, no one makes these porcelain-on-cast-iron drainboard sinks anymore. You’d have to find these vintage (try historichouseparts.com), or, go for aluminum from Elkay (see Countertops section in the Fast & East box).
Aluminum would be good. I was planning on a dishmaster but this combo might be nice too. Thanks Pam!
We are actually on this site to see what we could find and we just recently removed this sink from our kitchen. We still have all of it though. Down to the cabinets and countertop. We really loved it, but my uncle insisted on an upgrade.
I love this kitchen…..if only there were better flooring choices available today. And where is the oven/stove/range? This is pretty much the look I went for in my kitchen. (Minus the red floor and the drool-worthy drainboard sink) Not sure about that wall paper for the soffit though.
NorthsideCJ, I think that you can replicate this flooring pretty well today – both Armstrong and Forbo offer TRUE linoleum. As for the wallpaper on the soffit, you know what I think of that!
We just replaced the faucet on our American Kitchens sink with one of these this year! The original faucet lasted 60 years of continual use…not bad.