Reply To: Renovating Kitchen with New Sink —Assur?

Avram in MD: Thank you!

lesschumras: Yes of course. The question is not if people can live without two sinks or an unkasherable sink.

This is one thing that sparked that thought…

Watching home renovations tv shows where the designer comes in with this “gorgeous” reclaimed barn sink in a kitchen. It’s a selling piece.

—-And thinking to myself… is it really a selling piece? What if the homebuyer keeps kosher and this is just an expensive burden or at the very least it didn’t add value to this particular prospective buyer.

Also thinking of what happens when someone who is frum renovates a house in an area where there are frum Jews and nonJews.

Maybe if the frum seller makes the kitchen appealing for a secular lifestyle with its comprehensive kitchen design choices, then the seller could make a sale on the house to someone who isn’t Jewish.

At the same time, what if the seller has enough evidence to support the possibility that the home could go either way.

-50% chance it’s a frum homebuyer.

-50% chance it’s someone who isn’t Jewish

Does the homeowner have a responsibility to make the house more accommodating for a frum Jewish homeowner?

Why not help create one more frum-friendly kitchen space with one’s home renovation if he or she has the opportunity and can afford it?

Yet it may require more thought and planning, or just someone to pause and ask for a different sink material and a double instead of a singular sink, if the budget can afford the separate plumbing. Maybe the house already had that plumbing done but a previous owner installed one sink.

Anything is possible.

Thank you