Choosing a Finish for Your Bathroom Faucet

Bathroom faucets are available in a wide range of finishes and styles so that you can suit your faucets to the style of your bathroom.

Perhaps the single most common finish for bathroom faucets is chrome, that bright, shiny silver that is so hard to keep spotlessly brilliant. If you're looking for something a little different, a little sophisticated, a little playful or just a little more in keeping with your bathroom's style, there are many other options available for bathroom faucet finishes.

When choosing a finish for your bathroom faucet, you'll want to consider both appearance and maintenance. To help you, here's how the most common faucet finishes for the bathroom stack up.

Polished Chrome
The most common of all bathroom faucet finishes, chrome is also the most affordable. The look is sleek, cool and shiny, and it can stay that way for years thanks to triple chrome plating and state of the art finish sealants. Chrome is typically corrosion and tarnish resistant. All you need to keep your polished chrome bathroom faucet looking new is a soft cloth and cleaner.

Polished Brass
Coming in a close second in popularity, brass is both more expensive and more difficult to maintain than chrome. Over time, brass will tarnish even with frequent polishing. This tendency is offset by relatively recent technology in PVD (physical vapor deposition) finishes, which actually make the finish a part of the metal.

Colored Epoxy, Enamel and Powder Coating
Thanks to PVD finishing, your bathroom faucet can be finished with a non-metallic finish that exactly matches your sink, or a color in your tiles or.. the possibilities are endless. The most popular powder coat and epoxy color finishes are black, white, biscuit and glacier white. Maintenance is as easy as frequent cleaning to keep the surface looking its best.

Vintage Finishes - Copper, Stainless Steel, Nickel, Pewter
For a vintage bathroom, you might consider one of the vintage style finishes in copper, stainless, nickel, pewter or bronze. PVD technology eliminates most of the corrosion and tarnish problems that once made these a difficult choice.

To help give your bathroom a unified look, most designers suggest that you buy all your bathroom faucets and fixtures from the same line by the same manufacturer. That will eliminate the chance of subtle variances of color and texture spoiling the look of your new bathroom.

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