Quick Poll: Polished Chrome vs. Brushed Nickel

[aprilfool]

1. Which do you prefer for bathroom hardware?

2. Would you ever have one bathroom with Polished Chrome fixtures and another with Brushed Nickel or should you keep it consistent throughout the house?

[Susie]

1. It depends on what else is in the bathroom (glass tile vs. natural stone tile, etc.). I don't have an across the board preference.

2. I do have one bathroom with chrome and one with brushed nickel. They're on different floors - who would ever notice or care that they aren't the same?

[lolzlala]

I prefer the look of brushed nickel - just because every apartment I've had has cheap polished chrome look fixtures and I've gotten sick of them. As far as bathrooms having different fixture design, I'd have no issue with that, Especially if it's the case of say a master and a guest where they are connected to totally different parts of the house. (sometimes a bathroom hooked to a hallway looks odd if it has different metals than the kitchen/hallway fixtures, though.)

[sratsey]

I have chrome in some bathrooms and nickel in others. I like both, but the chrome is infinitely harder to keep clean.

[emoflamingo]

I don't have a preference either way, like Susie.

I don't mind switching it up between different rooms. I noticed the other day I still have a brass light fixture in my kitchen. Oh well.

[kyliek29]

We also mix it up. My cousin works for a company that makes faucets, so we take whatever he can give us a discount on!

[wawa]

Preference depends on the style and finishes of the bathroom, and my three bathrooms will be three different finishes when they're done - so yup, I'm a fan of mixing it up.

[lys]

Polished chrome -- timeless

[aweilba]

I much prefer brushed nickle, which is what's in my kitchen. However, my bathrooms both came with chrome, which we are slowly phasing out as we change things in our bathrooms. We've got brushed nickle towel bars, toilet paper holders, and shower heads, but the faucets are still chrome for now.

[steamboat185]

I prefer brushed nickle 9 times out of ten. We do have chrome lights in the kitchen, but it's our only shiny item. In bathrooms, if there is too much, chrome looks dated

[april37]

I prefer brushed nickel. I think you can have different finishes in different bathrooms. No one would ever notice.

[UMaineTeach]

polished chrome

[mkbt]

I like brushed nickel. Our guest bath is brushed nickel, and we are slowly changing our kitchn and master bath from ORB to brushed nickel.

[Deleted]

1. SS. Polished nickel. Best of both worlds.

2. No opinion, since we're a one-bathroom house so I never had to worry about it. I don't think I'd be too obsessed with matching them.

[aprilfool]

Thanks so much for the opinions! We are getting brushed nickel throughout the house, but we are thinking about going with chrome in the master bath b/c there are so many fixtures and chrome is much cheaper. I'm worried I might regret it.

[vanillahip]

Jun 13, 2012 21:59:03 GMT -5 aprilfool said:

Thanks so much for the opinions! We are getting brushed nickel throughout the house, but we are thinking about going with chrome in the master bath b/c there are so many fixtures and chrome is much cheaper. I'm worried I might regret it.

Meh, give it a try and if you hate it, change it! It's not really that hard, and since it's just one room it wouldn't be terribly expensive or time consuming.

FTR I MUCH prefer brushed nickel, just because flipping finger prints and water marks are glaringly obvious on chrome. I do not like to clean. Anything that makes me clean more often than I must just for the sake of being pretty is on my shit list. Polished chrome is on my shit list.

[patches31709]

I think it's funny that one person described polished chrome as timeless while another described it as dated.

I personally prefer brushed nickel, and just put it in both bathrooms that we renovated.

[FoxInFiji]

Jun 14, 2012 8:23:44 GMT -5 patches31709 said:

I think it's funny that one person described polished chrome as timeless while another described it as dated.

LOL exactly! Chrome has been and will always be around so I don't see how anyone could consider it dated. Both sleek modern fixtures and vintage ones come in chrome.

I'm with Juno I love polished nickel. We're using it in our warm toned master bathroom. In the main bath we just finished we went with chrome because we used cool tones. I don't think bathrooms need to match at all. As long as the finishes in each room are consistent that is all that matters.