After seeing the unique copper faucets for the sink and shower from Sonoma Forge in the last post and taking cues from the exposed copper plumbing throughout the Lodge I thought that I had zeroed in on what I would use for the new bath. The Sonoma Forge faucets were indeed beautiful for this application but the cost was prohibitive. I didn’t see any reason why I couldn’t make my own.
Granted mine would not be as refined nor finished but that was OK with me. Mine would probably end up looking a bit more raw but that was part of the fun. After all I did want something a bit fun, whimsical and rustic.
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In the last installment I had beat the crap out of a copper sink to customize it for the new bathroom. Now that I had sufficiently distorted the sink to my liking it was time to turn my attention to custom faucets.
I wanted something completely different. Throughout the lodge – being that this is a log home a great deal of the plumbing is exposed as there are few inner wall spaces to hide supply lines. The copper piping adds a bit of rustic and rather raw interest to the overall picture. With that in mind I wanted both the faucets at the bath sink and the shower system to be exposed. I didn’t want it to be too refined like that of manufactured fixtures on the market.
I searched numerous manufacturers to find just the right look — however everything to me seemed too provincial or too finished until I came across the rustic and raw plumbing fixtures of Sonoma Forge.
This is what I had been seeking. They had two different lines that I liked however, one called Waterbridge which capitalized on the look of exposed copper plumbing seemed to really fit in with the feel of the new bath.
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