I’m such an idiot. After we remodeled our kitchen, we had no use for our old sink (pictured here). It was a white, porcelain coated, cast iron, double-well sink. I’m sure it was pretty expensive, but we had no use for it anymore. You could say I’m the opposite of a pack rat; I hate holding onto anything that has no use or hasn’t been used in a couple of years. So I put our sink on the sidewalk in front of our house and it was gone in a couple of hours. A few days ago, I ran across this article and it hit me that I could have made a drink station like this out of the old sink:
Seriously, how cool would something like this look on your back porch?
Using the sink as a drink basin is so obvious that I feel stupid for not coming up with this myself. What’s more embarrassing is the fact that this kind of outdoor drink station was the general idea behind the bar I made a few years ago.
There really aren’t that many products out there (beyond galvanized steel buckets
$1500. Can you believe that? You’d think for that amount of money, you’d at least get something made out of teak, rosewood or some other exotic hardwood.
I could have made something better than this for about $100, and that would include some cabinet space, a drainage spigot, and a hinged tabletop that would allow the station to serve double-duty as a cocktail table. Kind of like this:
I officially have an itch to build this thing, only now I’ll have to buy a used sink on Craigslist or at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore. I still have to make the island for the kitchen, but this will be my next project after that. The upside about this piece is that I can use up some scrap wood and paint it whatever color I want. I think I might stain the table top and the surface area around the sink the color of espresso beans, and then paint the rest of the piece a pale blue color. Maybe.
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