Installing This Kitchen Upgrade Can Quickly Raise The Value Of Your Home

If you're looking to add value to your home, a great place to start is in your kitchen. Kitchens are a major selling point to potential home buyers, so it's important that you make the space an attractive one. A powerful way to do that: install a sink into your kitchen island. Kitchen remodels can be expensive, especially when you're installing all-new plumbing fixtures, but this can be an impactful change that's a worthy investment when selling your home.

Having a sink in your kitchen island makes the entire space more efficient by centralizing every step of the cooking process into a smaller space. In an exclusive interview with sister site Tasting Table, Surjit Singh Namli, creative director of Artique Designs, said, "By integrating a sink, it becomes a true multitasking zone — perfect for prepping, entertaining, and even supervising kids' homework while cooking." 

With this addition, you're not necessarily scrambling all over the kitchen while you're making a meal. Everyone from cooking enthusiasts to busy parents can appreciate the extra efficiency, including you while you're waiting for the sale to go through. In addition, having a sink in the kitchen island frees up space on your main countertops, giving you more room to work with and therefore making your kitchen even more appealing to potential home buyers.

Before you call up your contractor to install your island sink, there are a few things you should consider. First off, you may wish to avoid trends. To many minds, it's better to go with a design that looks good and retains its appeal than a flash-in-the-pan design that will flicker out of popularity quickly ... possibly even before you're able to sell your home.

Second, keep your kitchen layout in mind while you're planning your kitchen island's new sink. Where is the sink in relation to the stove and the fridge? Will you be able to work with it more easily than (or at the very least, as easily as) you did with the old sink? Ultimately, try your best to find a balance between aesthetics and functionality. While you're planning things, for instance, know that double faucets can make a kitchen sink more efficient and, when done right, can also look fantastic.

You also need to remember construction logistics. Installing a kitchen sink requires no small amount of work, including potentially complicated and costly plumbing and sacrificing room in your current island. Sinks used for different purposes will be different sizes, and if someone made the big kitchen island layout mistake of not considering size and clearance around the thing, you might not be able to install the sink you want. While you're at it, you may wish to add one more thing: To help streamline the new plumbing and increase home value even further in the process, consider installing a dishwasher to your island next to the new sink.

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