Antique Copper

We picked a faucet. We went with the Price Pfister Marielle in Antique Copper. It's not longer on their website; we believe that it has been discontinued. We should have taken that as a sign. Today, we went to Home Depot to pick up the supplies Roy is going to need to replace our failing white on white sink. 
He picked up the drains and cold water dispenser in beautiful shiny silver - don't know if they call it chrome or stainless steel. UGH. So my faucet, sprayer and handle are all in antique copper on a green sink and the other stuff is going to be shiny silver?  I paused.  Roy are we sure we want to do this?  Should we return the faucet and get the stainless steel design that is just as attractive and literally the same price (within $40 - give or take). No, he said. We should stick with this purchase. I know I should be leary of those famous words from him.
He comes up with the briliant idea to go to the custom order desk in the kitchen section to see if they have options in antique copper. So off we go. The strainers are $76.00 each (including tax and free delivery to the store). The cold water dispensing faucet - none to be found in antique copper. But there was one in the custom order catalog for $700, if you are interested.
When we got home, I did a quick search online. A company called Brassmaster has the cold water dispenser in antique copper but it's discontinued and only 1 site of all the links I went to actually had one and it wasn't perfect but it was only $40.  I did find one that dispensed cold water and hot water for $350 - only a 100 and some odd dollars more than the faucet sitting on the garage bench waiting to be installed. 
So, here is where we stand. We have kept the faucet, we have order the antique copper strainers. The rationale for that purchase was, the Kohler stainless were $43 each so what's another $30 per side?  Ugh, again. This home improvement stuff is expensive. I know that I should always triple anything Roy says but I really was hoping this was a simple project that would get done in a timely manner and stay under $500.  Both of those have been blown out of the water and we are two weeks into it.
The great buy of the day...
For those of you who have been to my house and have been lucky enough to use the facilities, know that my husband picked out a wooden (that's right wooden) toilet seat when we remodeled the bathroom. I didn't mind it (although it was tacky) we don't have many people come over and it made him happy. Since he did most of the work, he needed to be happy. Well, that crazy thing was getting GROSS and I have been wanting it gone for months now. So today was the day. He had picked out on his earlier excursion to his favorite place in the whole wide world two options that would replace this wooden contraption. Both were white - good start - and both had really cool features. The first had a built in child's seat that was magnetic and sat up in the lid when not needed. The second option had a "no slam" hinge.  Both were brilliant.  I am not sure why they didn't think to blend these two options together and charge 50% more, I would have definitely paid it for both.  But in the end, I selected the "no slam" option. We have been blessed with two child's seats that are padded and very comfy for the smallest bum in the house. So the "no slam" seemed like the best option because it will end some of the "no slamming" noise coming from my husband.
Roy installed the seat when we got home. In order to install it, he also cleaned what it was being installed on. Loving that! Since we are a family that likes the seat down, I'm glad that we don't have to gently lower the seat anymore, but it's going to take some getting use to, I'm worried it's going to drop at the last second.  Good news, it hasn't yet.
Now we need to find those hinges for the front and garage doors.  All in the name of home improvement.