I am always amazed at how poorly designed bathroom sink faucets are.
The spout where the water comes out is always so close to the far edge instead of to the middle of the sink.
Placing the spout so the water exits in the middle of the sink would be so much nicer. You wouldn't have to lean over, your hands wouldn't be hitting the back of the sink, and you'd have so much more room to wash your hands.
> I am always amazed at how poorly designed bathroom sink faucets are.
> The spout where the water comes out is always so close to the far edge instead of to the middle of the sink.
> Placing the spout so the water exits in the middle of the sink would be so much nicer. You wouldn't have to lean over, your hands wouldn't be hitting the back of the sink, and you'd have so much more room to wash your hands.
That would suck. If the faucet was in the middle, it would be where I put my face when I try to wash it in the sink.
I think this is a mismatch between the sink and the faucet and it’s totally the installer/chooser fault, not the faucet. There are sinks and sinks, the match has to work. In my rental there are two bathrooms. Both have the same faucet, different sink. One makes me bank my knuckles on the sink, the other one doesn’t (but it leaks). It can be done
I'm not sure it's a good idea, but I've always wondered why we don't have more sink fountains. A stream of water that shoots up into the air and falls into the middle of the sink (ideally, going directly down the hole in the middle). That would make it so the faucet never blocks you from putting something big in the sink, and it would be aesthetically very nice I think.
You do realize... There are many designs, styles, sizes of bathroom sink faucets. Typically the builder or person commissioning the build chooses the sink and the faucet fitures. You can change either...
Sinks are such a great example of what seems like a device with deceptively simple requirements for its design – but turns out to have so much complexity.
I've seen some kinda "high design" sinks that do abandon all use cases aside from washing one's hands and teeth-brushing and such—so-shallow-it's-barely-there basin, fancy faucet that sends the water straight out in an arc instead of down, that kind of thing.
I assume, like having lots of mirrored or glass furniture/surfaces, they're the kind of thing you get when all the cleaning (and much of the childcare) is done by "the help", who will just have to deal with whatever unhelpful-to-them design decisions you've made. And when you're in a house that has a dozen or more total sinks, so you've also got a "mud sink" somewhere that's better for utility-type things—and maybe one for each floor, if it's the kind of house that has a utility/laundry room on every floor. Not so viable in normal houses where every sink needs to be a multi-tasker.
The spout where the water comes out is always so close to the far edge instead of to the middle of the sink.
Placing the spout so the water exits in the middle of the sink would be so much nicer. You wouldn't have to lean over, your hands wouldn't be hitting the back of the sink, and you'd have so much more room to wash your hands.