By Ed Del Grande
From Tribune News Service
Q: Ed: We’re first-time new home builders in the planning stages. I made it through my bathroom fixture choices, but now I’m getting stressed out over my kitchen sink choices. Can you please simplify basic kitchen sink choices for me?
— Tina, Michigan
A: If you made it through bathroom fixture choices, you can make it through a kitchen sink choice.
Surprisingly, choosing a kitchen sink is a lot like choosing a bathtub. To temporarily go off topic, let me go into three basic bathtub options.
First, drop-in tub-only models sit on top of a custom-built tub deck. Next, undermount baths are attached under the tub deck. Then, alcove apron-front tub/showers are self-trimming against three walls with a finished front apron….