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A Buyer’s Guide to Kitchen Faucets

Discover everything you need to know about choosing a kitchen faucet for your home.

Getting Started

Use the following kitchen faucet buying guide to streamline your decision-making process and find the ideal faucet to complement your kitchen’s style and your lifestyle.

Make It Personal

There’s no one perfect faucet for every home. In addition to the way it coordinates with the design of your kitchen, your faucet also needs to function in a way that complements your unique daily routines. The following guide will walk you through the style and performance factors you’ll want to consider to ensure you select the perfect kitchen faucet for your home.

Key Considerations

Kitchen faucets add beauty and functionality to your home, and choosing the right one will include thinking about how the style of the faucet will work with your existing decor along with the designs and features that will meet your family’s needs. Here are some of the key considerations to think about as you get started.

Start with the Sink

When installing a new faucet in an existing sink, the number of holes in your counter and/or sink is the first factor you’ll need to consider. KOHLER faucets come in one-, two-, and three-hole configurations, and escutcheon plates are often available to allow a single-hole faucet to work with a multihole sink.

What’s Your
Faucet Style?

Deciding whether you prefer traditional, transitional, or modern designs is important, but selecting the right faucet style is also about considering how you will use it.


You might consider whether you need a high-arch spout to accommodate a large pot and other hefty cookware. Or, if you prefer to operate the faucet with a single handle or two. You can also choose between a pull-out or pull-down spout for all-in-one functionality and a ceiling-mount faucet to keep the countertop clear.


Whatever you’re looking for, KOHLER has the faucet variation to pair with any kitchen sink size or task.

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Are You Looking
for Added
Technology?

A conventional faucet may do the job, but advanced technologies like smart faucets and touchless options bring a new level of cleanliness and convenience to your daily chores.

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What Finishes go
With Your Style?

Matching your style and kitchen decor is easy with the wide range of finish options on KOHLER® faucets.

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Design

The design of your kitchen faucet has the greatest impact on the beauty it brings to your home and the functionality it adds to your life. Here’s a look as some of the most popular design options.

Semi-Pro

Inspired by professional restaurants and commercial kitchen faucets, KOHLER semi-pro faucets bring upgraded functionality and style to your kitchen—no matter what you’re cooking up.

Go beyond a traditional kitchen faucet with pull-down or pull-out designs. By eliminating the side spray, you’ll be able to enjoy the clean lines of your sink deck and take advantage of the faucet’s many spray functions with ease.

Pull-Down

Pull-down sprayheads are an extension of the faucet that a user pulls down to increase its reach while maintaining water flow. This style offers a generous faucet spout height for cleaning or filling large pots and pans.

Pull-Out

Pull-out kitchen faucets generally have a bigger section of the faucet that pulls away for a larger grip area that makes it more comfortable to use. This style provides the same functionality as a pull-down faucet and is available with multiple spray functions.

Our standard-spout kitchen faucets are available with multiple configurations and side spray options to fit all your kitchen needs. Browse through single-handle, twohandle, wall-mount, and bridge faucets to find the perfect option.

Single-Handle

Our single-handle kitchen faucets let you control water flow and temperature with a single lever. The lever is located on the faucet or next to it for ease and convenience.

Two-Handle

Two-handle faucets have separate water temperature controls, so you can get it just right. Match your kitchen style with lever or cross-handle options.

Kitchen Beverage Faucets

Elevate your kitchen’s functionality with specialized beverage faucets, offering more convenient access to filtered water for drinking and cooking.

Expressive KOHLER Finishes

We offer an expansive selection of faucet finishes—from warm brushed tones to brilliant polished hues. As tough as they are beautiful, each finish resists corrosion to twice the industry standard.

Pairing Your Faucet

Complement your beautiful, versatile faucet with a sink that adds an additional dimension of style and functionality to your home.

Kitchen Sinks

Explore a range of kitchen sink options from KOHLER that seamlessly integrate with your chosen faucet and overall design style.

Kitchen Sink Buying Guide

Not sure where to get started? Dive into our kitchen sink buying guide to find the perfect kitchen sink for your home and help you make informed decisions about size, material, style, and configuration.

Features

From specialty sprays that for gently washing fruit or dislodging stuck-on food to advancements like touchless and voice-activated technology, today’s kitchen faucet innovations take your kitchen routine to new levels of cleanliness and convenience.

Task-Oriented Sprays

Streamline your kitchen tasks with a faucet and built-in spray head that offers task oriented sprays to delicately clean produce or sweep dirty dishes clean.

Response® Technology

Control your touchless faucet with a simple wave of your hand, reducing the time you spend cleaning your faucet and the potential spread of germs.

KOHLER Konnect®

A smart faucet with voice-activated technology lets you control your faucet from anywhere within speaking distance. Plus, measured pouring and customizable settings let you pour exact amounts of water with less guesswork and fewer dishes.

Install Services

Get installation services for your KOHLER® products from one of our in-house professionals for your kitchen, bar, or laundry faucet. This KOHLER Install Service does not apply to wall-mounted faucets, water filtration systems, or new hole drillings to the countertop.

Perfect Pairings

We could all use more help around the kitchen and and our specialty faucets and accessories do just that. They can help you maximize your work areas, streamline tasks, and keep your space clutterfree, so you can truly enjoy your kitchen experience.

Soap & Lotion Dispensers

Keep your countertop tidy and your favorite soaps and lotions easily accessible. Our dispensers can be used for liquid soap, dishwashing liquid, or hand lotion.

Strainers & Disposal Flanges

Strainers trap debris to keep your drain from clogging and disposal flanges help your sink drain smoothly.

Pot Fillers

Avoid carrying heavy, water-filled pots across the kitchen. Instead, fill your pot right where you need it with a professional, chef-inspired pot filler.

Bar Faucets

Adding a second faucet type to your kitchen gives you a convenient prep area, hand-washing station, or separate bar sink for entertaining.

Water Filtration

Everyone deserves safe water. Pair your faucet with a KOHLER Aquifer® water filtration or purification accessory.

Air Gaps

Available in a range of finishes, our air gaps help avoid contamination of your drinking water by preventing wastewater backflow from your kitchen pipes.

Air Switches

Our stylish, finish-matched air switches complement your kitchen design while make it easy and convenient to operate your garbage disposal.