![]() It sort of does, but a brighter color would have been better. My hope was that it would echo the brushed gold cabinet pulls. My advice is to go for it, Kathy! We didn't get the brass faucet (my husband didn't like the bridge style and besides, they were way too pricey for us.) We went with "champagne bronze" which works, but honestly, I don't love it. Brass is much more stable and will oxidize but is slower to do so. copper oxidizes extremely fast depending on the environment, can look ugly some times on its way to a beautiful patina. Or let your cleaning person deal with it which is what a couple of my customers have told me they do, which kind of bugs me but also makes me laugh a little. So, be prepared to polish the copper if you want it to remain bright colored. I have found the sealers and waxes difficult to remove. I would let one dominate, say the brass since it sounds like it will be the natural color and will be sealed/lacquered as brass usually is, with a lesser amount of copper in your space? Or let some copper remain copper colored and some oxidize? I don't like to seal copper since it will probably oxidize anyway and not usually in a interesting way under a sealer. I'm not a interior designer but I'm a metalsmith and love all metal especially copper. Are you going to talk me down from the ledge or tell me to go for it? Jorgenson - I see you have an Ankarsarum. Fortunately, it was easy to adjust once I found a tool that would work. The oven was heating 50F higher than indicated. The first couple of times I used the oven, I burned the bottoms of everything. DOES COPPER AND BRASS CONDUCT TOGETHER CRACKMy top requirements for a range were: gas (I love my heavy copper pots and pans which would crack a glass cooktop if one slipped from my grasp), no self-cleaning, no digital dodads, as little stainless steel as possible, no sealed burners, 30' wide, decent performance. The Blue Star electric would have been a contender if there had been room. Stealing some space from the kitchen to expand a powder room to a 3-quarter bath and build a main floor laundry, meant there wasn't room for a wall oven. Being a geeky sort, I had lists for each function and factors to consider and rank. Exterior work was needed too, so compromises were inevitable. When we downsized to our last-stop-before-the-nursing-home house, we deliberately chose one that hadn't been remodeled recently so that I could gut the kitchen and bathrooms to get what I wanted. ![]()
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