I'm finalizing my list of bathroom fixtures. I like the Grohe brand and am focusing on the Seabury line. Grohe makes really elegant, European design and extremely reliable fixtures. Their web site is very nice, easy to navigate and make selections of products and get MSRP.
We're going with a brushed nickel for our master bath and guest bathroom, chrome for kids (lighter granite counter top to notice the mess less, chrome will go better with this) and chrome for our downstairs bathroom. The kids bath will also have an adjustable shower bar with hand shower to make it easier for us to rinse them off. They are still little and this was a nice feature at our last house.
I'm having to combine a few different lines (e.g., Movario 5 way shower head) since Seabury does not have everything. I'd like to get the list in one shot so that I don't have to amass bits and pieces of this order and possible get things like brushed nickel and satin nickel mixed up. I'm finding in general that the deals on eBay for faucets and fixtures are not that great. I can find better pricing across the board by going to Shopping.com, Shopzilla, shop.com and Amazon.
For the Grohe line, shower-faucets.com seems like the most aggressive on price but I like faucet.com which did a great job shipping my recently arrived Franke stainless kitchen sink. So I'm asking faucet.com to match. They also have a free ship promotion which is great.
That reminds me that I am in the middle of also ordering my bathroom sinks. We're going with the Toto LT597G Dantesca undermount in cotton white. We like the Toto sinks because they are nice and deep, great for washing your face or little baby's butt. We debated going with the LT511G Supreme self rimming (over counter) mount which is what we had at our last house, but I think with granite counter tops the undermount will look better and provide more counter space. Toto does not have as many dealers carrying their line, so low price hunting is a little more challenging.
However, I did find the best deal on shopping.com with Amazon pricing at Homecenter.com. They would not do free ship so I typed in Google "Toto Free Ship Price Match" and got a few sites. One of them, standardplumbing.com, seems to be able to match and ship free. You have to love that my toilets are arriving next week on a free ship deal, a 500 lb pallet with 4 toilets on it all the way from New Jersey! That had to be expensive. Unfortunately, I did not find a free ship deal on my Kohler Villager bath tubs. They are on the way now but faucet.com still gave me a great deal with a still subsidized ship rate.
We also decided a while ago to go with Carrier for our HVAC. I've actually never owned a Carrier AC before, we had Lennox in Boston, but our contractor highly recommends it. They also own the Bryant line of furnaces which we had at our last house and were very reliable, zero maintenance. I noticed there is a $1500 cash rebate for Carrier this month in the newspaper and told my contractor to check it out so we're buying it early and storing to take advantage of the great promo.
