What i find kind of odd is how many of these companies will not give you a sample to take home so you can compared and see it in your actual house.
I'm not saying you would keep the sample, but just to even get a sample from a company to which you've committed to buying the product is like pulling teeth. You would think that with all the cutouts from kitchen sinks they would have tons of samples available for customers.

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