Ugly kitchen taps

[sammyc]

I had a pair of the these, or near enough https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rc...51902450149330 the last time I replaced my kitchen taps, chose them more or less randomly & quickly, haven't needed any since so haven't really kept up with what's out there.

Come to look for something similarish, all there now seems to be is these ugly blighters https://tapstore.com/value-lever-hig...RoCiFcQAvD_BwE that look like they should be in a hospital or kitchen (budget so presumably intended for pretty much that). Well I'll go up the price range then, thinks me, and find nothing in this style - sink taps, bath taps yes, kitchen, no. Just variations on these, with these tops that look like they have been jammed down like a bucket over Mr Tap's head.

Ok people like mixers & whatnot & there is plenty of other fancy stuff, victorian stylee & whatever, but in this bracket my point is (as with many things) - why make a cheap & cheerful ugly tap, when with 2 minutes more thought & design input you can produce something better? Blah.

[blueball]

Don't know if any of these float your boat?

https://www.taps4less.com/High-Kitchen-Taps.html

[sammyc]

Thanks - they're much of a type in that it's the flat (spoon? golf club? hockey stick) shaped levers I don't like, compared to the simple round one on mine.. they look really utilitarian. And I really like my old straight spout. This is actually ok looking https://www.taps4less.com/PP/MA-KIT015.html but it's a mixer . As I say you can get similar https://www.plumbase.co.uk/suregraft...010536-2209519, https://www.diy.com/departments/cook.../172625_BQ.prd, just in everything but a kitchen tap.

[blueball]

Have to agree. I liked the simplicity of your original taps and everything now just looks meh!

[Butcher]

Most folks have mixers these days so that's where the design effort goes. Not sure I'd like a kitchen sink with separate taps.

[JBuckland]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Premier-FJ3...ds=basin+lever

Something like this maybe?

[sammyc]

Most folks have mixers these days so that's where the design effort goes. Not sure I'd like a kitchen sink with separate taps.

True, & it may have to come to that, but it just seems to me it doesn't take much to come up with something like my originals - all it mostly is is, swapping out a couple of details (like mine had a simple etched H & C & not the blue & red cheapo whatsits, that's no big design effort). Plus you can get ornate separate taps with lots of design elements, so why not simple but groovy separate taps.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Premier-FJ3...ds=basin+lever

Something like this maybe?

Yes, but.. basin taps.

Cheers blueball for the gratifying backup.

[Butcher]

Incidentally, what's wrong with your current taps?

[Bagnaj97]

Could the old taps be revived with some bits? https://www.screwfix.com/c/bathrooms...&page_size=100

[peterb]

These might be worth a look too

https://www.bathroomspareparts.co.uk...pares-13-c.asp

https://www.notjusttaps.co.uk/inform...ap-valves.html

[sammyc]

Incidentally, what's wrong with your current taps?

They're just getting on a bit, would need a good clean off of limescale & need new cartridges anyway, so I just at that point thought I may as well go for new - thinking getting the actual taps would be simple.

Tap revivers are fine but they are pretty much just the styles I've seen that I don't like, so none that are any improvement on just getting a tap with that same top. I'm on first name terms with everything in notjusttaps &c already having just replaced my bathroom valves & yes, I could just swerve & renovate my own, I suppose, but I'd rather do that as a conscious decision not because tap designers have failed me

It's the principle.. seeing something like this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chrome-Ba...0AAOSwfiZcdrG0 going begging £9.99 post free with chrome plug is just.. can't count the times the thing one doesn't want, someone is virtually giving away with a free house & a holiday on ebay - & there is not even any logic to me, why the only tap you can't get in this style is the one I want. Maybe I'll buy these & start a stunted kitchen tap trend.