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How to get your white sink sparkling!

February 8, 2017 by Rachel

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White. The color of my life. Irish white is the color of my skin, about which I have been teased all my life. Freckled white Irish girls, unite! If the world looks hard enough, they’ll be able to see us. We just need to make more noise.

My kitchen cabinets are white, my bed, sheets, and duvet are white. There are white walls in my home, white furniture, white towels (MISTAKE), white dishes. It’s a love affair. Once, I hosted an outdoor Midsummer’s Eve dinner party and dressed the entire family in white. Also a mistake because hello, toddlers.

I wanted a white kitchen sink in this house so bad that I cried at the thought of cold, heartless stainless steel. I had a previous experience with a cheap white sink that was a horror to clean, but stubbornly insisted that white sinks and I were bound together; I could have no other.

We upped our sink game with a new-to-us-via-Craigslist white Kohler sink when remodeling this house. After it was first installed, it was perfect. One week and 40 million dishes later plus all the hard abuse that we give our kitchen (me to children: “why are you washing rocks in my sink?”), its gleam was a little off. I, however, was undaunted. I knew the secret to restoring a white sink, and fast-forward a couple years later, continue to follow the same magic routine. I will now bless you with this knowledge, so you may go forth and let your white sink shine brightly to all the world. Let it not be hidden.

YOU WILL NEED

Bar Keeper’s Friend

Magic Eraser(s)

It’s really that simple!

Sprinkle the bar keeper’s friend over the sink…

Allll over the sink…

See how scuffed up and stained I allowed my sink to become? It was for the Greater Good. We needed a proper before and after here.

Spray lightly with warm water, then…

Scrub, scrub, scrub!

You are basically making a paste with the barkeeper’s friend and water, then using the magic eraser to apply it to the surface.

Something magical begins to happen. As you scrub with the magic eraser, it starts to disappear…

…and your white sink begins to reappear!

It’s therapeutic. I promise.

 

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