These days, bathroom faucets come in many styles and many prices for both your sink and your bathtub. There are so many things you can do, in fact, that you might end up wanting to redesign your entire bathroom after you’ve taken care of the faucets.

Let’s start with the bathtub faucets. Depending on what you like you can have one faucet or two. You can have one knob, two knobs, or even a third knob. You can have copper or silver or silver plate or gold plate or even gold. There are so many choices that you can do almost anything with it. You can also change the styles and colors of the shower head faucet, including the shower head.

You can have a massaging or standard aerated shower head. You can have slow flow or have it come out hard and fast. If you’ve got the design for it, you can even have the water coming out of the sides of the shower rather than just at the top. You can have a shower head that you can detach and move all around your body. You can have it high or low, depending on height. And let’s not forget what you can do if you have a Jacuzzi tub.

In essence, you can do almost anything you want, if you have the money. You can put everything high or low. You can have knobs of any style and color. You can decide to reverse the direction of the knobs, so that hot and cold are on opposite sides, and the knobs go in reverse directions; that could get confusing, though.

The same goes for bathroom faucets. You can have all kinds of styles in all kinds of colors with all sorts of ways water comes out of them. You can decide to have them on the side of your sink or behind the sink. You can have two knobs or just go for one. You can have dual faucets. You don’t even need knobs; you can have the little stick that brings the water instead of knobs. If you’re willing to spend the money, you don’t even need anything to start the water flowing; just stick your hands underneath and it’ll sense your hands there and bring water to you. Anything you want, you can have.

Something else you could do is get what’s known as “heat on demand” faucets, where, instead of bringing hot water from a hot water heater, wherever it is in the house, the heat is generated from the faucets themselves, taking about the same amount of time to get hot as it does to run from your water heater to your faucets. That’s considered energy efficient faucet, which of course saves money.

For both, the bathtub and sink, you might want to think about adding an aerator. Not only does it change the feel of the water, making it feel less forceful, but some of them can reduce water consumption by up to 50%, which isn’t bad.

There are so many options that it can seem overwhelming. The best thing to do is set a budget, and then only look at fixtures within that dollar amount. You can always change your mind, but it’s a nice way to start.

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