{"id":5646,"date":"2023-03-29T20:12:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T20:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pagodared.com\/blog\/?p=5646"},"modified":"2024-01-02T22:40:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T22:40:41","slug":"outside-stone-trough-sinks-mallorcan-getaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pagodared.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/29\/outside-stone-trough-sinks-mallorcan-getaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Outside In: Stone Trough Sinks in a Mallorcan Getaway"},"content":{"rendered":"

At PAGODA RED, we gravitate toward natural materials, objects with history, and creative reuses\u2014no surprise, then, that we love traditional stone troughs<\/a> reimagined as sink basins. Over the years, we\u2019ve worked with clients who have incorporated troughs as sink basins in sleek Chicago apartments to outdoor garden areas in rustic lake houses in California. The stone sinks can \u201cfloat\u201d on a wall or be integrated into a counter. We became even more enamored with traditional troughs as sinks after seeing Tramuntana Farmhouse, the idyllic home of Leigh and Pille Morgan on the Balearic island of Mallorca.<\/p>\n

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In the farmhouse, two stone troughs reimagined as sinks create a true mood \u2014one in the outdoor kitchen and the other in a small powder room on the first floor. Of course, stone abounds on Mallorca, particularly mar\u00e9s, the local sandstone carved from Mallorca\u2019s cliffs. Throughout the island, stone villages and churches meld into a landscape of wild olive trees, pine, and oleander. A stone bridge, the Pont Rom\u00e0, has transversed the Torrent de Sant Jordis for centuries.<\/p>\n

Leigh and Pille have more than a passing familiarity with Mallorcan architecture\u2014they\u2019re longtime residents and co-owners of the rental home company Morgan & Morgan. In 2019, the couple decided to look for a finca, or farmhouse, after outgrowing the townhouse they were living in with their toddler. Ideally, the new house would be near Pollen\u00e7a, a historic town in the north of the island, where they work and have friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\t\t