Bathroom Faucets

Bathroom faucet brands and styles

Explore premium bathroom faucets from leading national brands, sold direct at competitive prices. Shop modern, traditional, and transitional designs to complement your bathroom tile, vanity, and decor.

Centerset, widespread and single hole

A centerset faucet has its handles and spout on one base spanning four inches. A widespread has three separate pieces, a spout and two handles, with the outer holes eight inches apart and the basin surface visible between them. On some widespread sets that distance is adjustable within a range, which is where the other spacings in this collection come from. A single hole faucet is one body with one lever.

The three are not interchangeable, because the basin or the countertop was drilled for one of them. A single hole faucet can usually go into a wider drilling with a deck plate over it; a widespread cannot go into a single hole at all. It is the first thing to establish, and on a stone countertop it is decided when the stone is cut.

Faucet spread and the basin

Beyond fitting, the spread changes how the basin reads. A single hole faucet is one object and leaves the basin surface clear, which suits a small basin and a plain room.

A widespread set spreads three pieces across the back of the basin and reads as a considered arrangement rather than a fitting, which suits larger basins and more traditional bathrooms. A centerset sits between the two and is the most forgiving of a basin that was chosen before the faucet.

Freestanding tub fillers

The tub fillers here are a different product from anything at a basin. They stand on the floor beside a freestanding bath and rise to it, with the supply coming up through the floor rather than through a wall or a basin.

That makes them a decision taken with the floor, not with the bathroom fittings. The position of the pipework is fixed before the floor goes down and the bath has to end up where the filler expects it, which is why a freestanding bath and its filler are specified as a pair.

Spout height and reach over a basin

A basin faucet has to clear the rim and reach far enough over the bowl that water lands somewhere useful. A tall spout over a shallow basin splashes; a short spout over a deep vessel basin puts the water against the near wall of the bowl.

Vessel basins, which sit on top of the countertop, not in it, need a taller faucet than an undermounted one for the same reason. The height and reach figures are published against each product, and they are the pair to read together with the basin, not separately.

Waterfall and open spouts

Several of these have waterfall spouts, where the water comes over an open lip, not out of an aerated outlet. The flow is wide and flat and the movement of the water becomes part of the fitting.

The two produce different things from the same supply. A waterfall gives a wide flat sheet that is part of how the basin looks; an aerated spout gives a soft contained column that is quieter and easier to fill a glass from. Which suits depends on whether the basin is a feature of the room or a fitting in it.

Matching across the bathroom

The basin faucet, the shower fittings and the accessories are all seen at once in most bathrooms, and they are usually chosen at different moments. The shower systems page covers why finish names do not travel between makers.

The bath accessories range covers the towel bars and hooks that complete the set, and the kitchen faucets page covers the equivalent decision at a sink.