Unlacquered Brass Basins discount codes

Brass or copper

Copper reads warm and pink and goes brown then almost black. Brass starts yellow and gold, and unlacquered brass moves through amber into a deep bronze with dark shadows in the recesses. In a room with a lot of warm stone, brass usually sits more quietly. Against green or deep blue cabinetry, copper is the stronger colour.

What unlacquered actually means

No coating. The metal is exposed, so it reacts to air, water and hands from the first day, and it never stops changing. That is the whole appeal, and it is also the thing people regret when they were expecting the showroom photograph to be permanent.

Fingerprints show as bright marks at first because the oil in skin slows the tarnish underneath. They blend within weeks. If you cannot live with the in between stage, buy a lacquered basin instead and accept that the lacquer will eventually wear at the rim and cannot be touched up invisibly.

Bringing it back

Unlacquered brass polishes back to bright with a brass cream and a soft cloth, which is the advantage it has over a coated finish. You can restore a whole basin in twenty minutes, or polish only the rim and let the bowl stay dark. Doing it once a year gives you a different sink every year without buying one.

Avoid anything abrasive and anything containing ammonia. Both work quickly, and both leave a surface that tarnishes unevenly afterwards.