You can find a vessel style sink made from many different materials, including stone, stainless steel, porcelain, copper and glass. There are many different materials stone sinks can be made from:  Granite, Onyx, and Marble are some of the most commonly used stone materials. Stone are generally more expensive materials used because they are generally hand polished and carved, however they tend to be less fragile. Stone sinks needs treatment whereas glass and porcelain sinks do not.

Vessel sinks can be installed in your bathroom in a wide variety of ways.  Traditional installation has a glass sink mounted on a support ring, top mounted above your countertop with a drain that drops through the sink, ring and countertop to tighten from below.  Your plumber can then use existing plumbing parts, new parts, plastic parts or designer metal drain systems to carry the waste water away from the sink. 

Other alternatives for installing your sink can be to under mount your flat top edged glass sink or semi-flush install it by cutting your hole diameter larger and dropping your sink down inside the countertop to your personal preference height.

Glass vessel sinks will vary in price depending on the process and the labor involved. There are different manufacturing techniques for glass sinks. Sinks can be factory molded, custom made, with blown glass or fused glass, single layer, double or triple layered glass or even a combination. You will find our more affordable vessel sinks to be made out of porcelain and single layer molded glass.

Stone sinks vary in price based on the design work, material, size of the finished product as larger sinks require much more polishing and finish work.  Shipping charges are generally higher also for stone sinks and require insurance.