Laptop in Paradise

Last summer Louis booked us a vacation in St. John. At the time we had NO idea we'd be extremely busy home owners by May 2010 so we paid for it in full and laughed at the idea of trip insurance.  Not smart. Fastforward to April 2010 and we were desperately trying to reschedule or resell it- no dice. SO, here we are, vacationing in St. John while construction continues and I have YET to find tile, faucets, blah. Hence the laptop. I'm sitting here drinking a Pina Colada and surfing faucet websites. Honestly I'm thrilled to be doing this here instead of in our tiny apartment "office" that's the size of a cocoon and gets hot enough to bake cookies.

Faucets. You'd think it'd be easy to order faucets but alas, the prices and styles vary greatly. I've probably spent over 100 hours looking at faucet porn online. Between faucet and tile research I probably could have been trained to fly a plane or at least have gotten a motorcycle license. Oh well. My Modern-French-Country theme makes it easier to know what I'm looking for. The problem is whether to go with a brand name and hopefully have some piece of mind or to scrimp and buy the cheap knock off that may or may not spring a leak. I lean towards spending more because if my sink breaks, it affects the countertop which would be unebelieveably expensive to redo for a different sink.

Perrin & Rowe $300-500+ 

Here it is in a farm style kitchen very similar to what I'm doing-

I love the cross bar and the swan neck but I'm torn between that look or this one-

Hmm, yeah I like this one. It's more classic victorian country. BUT the swan neck option offers more space for moving big pans around. I really want as much space as possible between the bottom of the sink and the spout in order to wash our large pots and pans with abandon. Right now I struggle with a teenie sink and a faucet that juts out horizontally with NO arch at ALL to the neck. I loathe it. There's no way to get water to the top of the pots and pans since I have to swing the faucet out of the way to even fit them in the sink. Life is so hard, right Haiti?

The more victorian country looking faucet is also WAY cheaper....I think I just sold myself. I'm good. Now the question is 2 or 3 leg? The faucet above is a 2 "legger". This one is a 3 legger-

I think I like the 2 legger better. "2 legger better" sounds like the name of a band.

If only I could decide on tile. The search continues!