How To Replace The Kitchen Faucet

I have some advice: if you're buying a house, check all the faucets. We did not do this. We should have, because:

Yeah. The top just came right off.

I mean, it still worked. But if you didn't close it just right, water would drip. You'd think you got the drip to stop, but then you'd sit down, pick up a book, start to read and...



....drip.


This happened so many times to the point where I told my husband, "For Mother's Day, I need a new sink." I assumed if I wanted a new faucet that I'd need a whole new sink. Turns out, nope, I didn't. I could just replace the faucet. I did a lot of kitchen faucet reviews to find one that I liked.

And, I mean, I didn't know I just needed a faucet. This is my first home that's mine. Tom was looking at me like:

Anyhow, we got one of the best kitchen faucets and then I set to work installing it, because I'm a woman and can do anything.

I'm kidding.

I don't know how to install a faucet. Tom doesn't know how to install a faucet. I know there's YouTube, but I pictured this happening all over our kitchen. And guys, all my chocolate is in there.

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No, what happened was this: we went to my husband's favorite place Lowes and picked out a faucet. Then we paid for someone to come out and install it.

Someone showed up a few days later, and behold:

And it's one of those magnetic ones so you can pull it down and it can click back up. Most people probably already have something like this, but to me it's amazing. We've only ever had cheap faucets before because we've always lived on base.

Plus there's a soap dispenser.


"We're fancy folk now," I told my husband. "We have a soap dispenser."

"You're weird," he answered.


I am serious when I say I'll take the new faucet as a Mother's Day gift.


So if you need a new faucet and don't know what you're doing, go to Lowes!