{"id":748,"date":"2009-03-02T19:59:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T02:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/?p=748"},"modified":"2012-02-15T11:19:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T18:19:49","slug":"what-consumers-want-in-faucets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/what-consumers-want-in-faucets\/","title":{"rendered":"What Consumers Want In Faucets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>No two consumers are the same. But when it comes to kitchens and baths, research from leading faucet manufacturers like Delta, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanstandard-us.com\/\">American Standard<\/a>, Moen and Kohler shows that most homeowners want functionality, style and convenience. This is particularly true in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/product-ideas\/buildingtips.asp\">new home construction<\/a> where homeowners are taking an active role in selecting the products that go into the design and functionality of their new kitchen and bath. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>\u00c2\u00a0Here are some interesting facts about what consumers want and expect from today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/articles\/kitchen-bath-faucet-trends.asp\">faucets<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>70% of home purchase decisions are made by women.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>70% of consumers prefer a pull-out or pull-down      kitchen faucet when investing more than $100 in their purchase.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>70% of consumers prefer traditional or casual      styling.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>70% of consumers prefer a dual-function shower      system. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No two consumers are the same. But when it comes to kitchens and baths, research from leading faucet manufacturers like Delta, American Standard, Moen and Kohler shows that most homeowners want functionality, style and convenience. This is particularly true in new home construction where homeowners are taking an active role in selecting the products that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-houseplans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}