A new faucet
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Today I have something different for you and I don’t do many of these posts as you guys may have noticed.
A while ago I received the Moen Kinzel Faucet so I could enjoy it in our kitchen. This post is to show you how I installed the faucet and how it looks in our kitchen. As you can see in the first photo it looks pretty darn good, right?
This is what’s inside the box (minus the hardware):
The tools I used:
I turned the water off first of course at the hot and cold water valves:
Yup, that’s how it goes, I do this while the hubby takes a photo, if he is even home.
I removed our old faucet:
Slipped the faucet into the hole and the soap dispenser too:
Picked out my mounting hardware after looking at the directions, crawled under the sink and attached it to the faucet with my wrenches:
Don’t forget about this heavy thing after you slip the hose through the faucet. It’s what keeps the pull out faucet in place if you aren’t using it.
After that I attached the hot and cold water hook ups again:
And now I have to be honest, I ran into a problem with my next connection. Because I didn’t get the described clicking sound and tight connection and the hook up failed. But after talking things through with the company, they sent me a new faucet and everything went smooth like butter. Really fast and super easy. Totally telling the truth.
{bad cell photo of the connection}
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And this is the end result. I love flexible hose
and of course the stainless steel because it matches my sink.
And don’t ever hold it like this and press the button, ha, totally kidding. You might want to try the rubber band trick though that they show over and over on “America’s Funniest Home Movies”. Never gets old, I tell ya!
(Love my extra deep sink by the way)
You can purchase the Moen Kinzel faucet at Lowes by clicking HERE.
And by the way did you literally SPOT something?
Tschüß
(Youleeya)
The new facet looks so good & loving your quartz counters (don’t you love how easy it is to keep them clean!!)
I love this kind of post, with pictures of the basics, tools, etc. I don´t know much about either so it is a huge help when I attempt something at home.
The new shade is awesome, how did you know it would look good? I usually feel cold and clammy when choosing and mixing patterns in my clothes, just thinking about doing it in my home makes me loose hair.
Lots of peace
Q.Beta
Thanks, I actually walked by the window the other day and a light went up in my head. I’m usually not scared to just try it especially if it was an easy reversible project like this one. I’ll post about it on Friday.
your new faucet looks very nice (wow, you installed it yourself, you go girl! ) 🙂 hubby has to take care of these things, if I would attempt something like this, I just know it wouldn’t work ha!ha! 🙂
& I love your extra deep sink too, you are very lucky, you know when we did our renovation, I wanted a deep one but we had so many difficulties with the contractor (he never listened) ah!
Love the window treatment!!
Thank you!
I’m so impressed that you installed it all by yourself! One of these days when I get to replace ours, I’ll be tackling it solo as well! The sink and faucet look great together!
wow! that looks super cool and i love your lighting fixture up there♥
I know this post is about your faucet, but all I can see is that ah-mazing light fixture. L-O-V-E
Love the way the curved lines of the faucet go with your kitchen. Good job doing it yourself! You go girl!
Nice! We had to replace the old, broken kitchen faucet when we moved in here, and I’m amazed at how fancy they’ve gotten since….umm, maybe 1987 when the one at my old house was probably installed? And go you installing it yourself!
How nice of them to send you a faucet! Moen is great quality – it will last forever. You actually made the installation look simple, but I think I would rather be the person taking the photos. haha!
Yup, it’s totally nice, I agree! And I’d like to switch roles sometimes too 😉
i noticed the window treatment, too- LOVE! and love the new faucet and the photo of you under the sink!
It’s so pretty!!
Great tutorial Julia, and what a stylish faucet! And yes, I spotted it…love it!
It looks beautiful. I’m so impressed that you changed it yourself!
The window treatment was the first thing that caught my eye. I love it!
Between my friend laying the tile in her kitchen this week because her husband was sick, and you installing your own faucet… I’m beginning to wonder if I should be changing my own oil or something! lol nicely done!
Yaaaaay! I’m so happy you finally got the fabri. You’ve been looking for! It looks awesome;) love the faucet, too!
Boy what a lucky husband you have. I would have batted my eyelashes and baked mine his favorite dessert in order to persuade him to install this for me. YOU ROCK!! PS- I can’t wait to see the post about that fabric!
Oh Julia, I think we were separated at birth. The picture of you under the sink made me laugh. This is exactly how it is at my house. Was your husband drinking a beer while taking the photos?
Looks great Julia 🙂 I have to say I love your pelmet box over the window. That fabric is so awesome!!!!
I love your faucet! How has it held up over time? Does the hose ever slide out of the neck when you don’t want it to? We bought a similar looking faucet about 8 months ago (not by Moen) and I’m not impressed with its quality :-/ The spigot hose thingy slides out when we turn the water on and off (ugh!), and now it’s leaking. I think that I’m going to have to replace it sometime. I DO really like the pull out hose feature though…so handy for filling up pots if your sink is full!
Great job!! I just installed one too (from social spark) and what a difference! I absolutely love it!
Thanks so much Brandy!
What a beautiful sink and new faucet. Steve put one in at one of his rental houses and I cleaned it for him not terribly long ago and I liked it too. And I see you have a snazzy new valance. I am going to have to replace my faucet…….. it died on me and the company told me it was a lifetime guaranty so they sent me a new one. I am so excited (NOT) to get to do it all over again……. grrrr.
I do love your sink also, but I really want a large, deep, single one….. since I can always use a tub to hold dish soap and still be able to run the water in the sink to rinse veggies while cooking. I guess you can do this with double, but I prefer larger to clean fridge bins without struggling so much.
It looks great! I love a pull-out sprayer, too. Only the rubber-band trick no longer works with my new faucet. 🙂 You are so handy for doing it yourself!
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Great faucet, Julia! I’m sure your readers will grab their new faucet after reading your blog. Hehe! Kidding aside, the installation is kinda complicated, huh? Good thing you managed to fix this faucet properly. Months have passed now, and I hope you’ve been enjoying your new faucet! 🙂
Monica Ryan @ VillagePlumbing