Secretly, we each thought the other was a bathroom slob. I’d go into the upstairs bathroom to wash up and find water on the counter at the backsplash, around and behind the faucet and its handles.

That old faucet has been there since the house was first built. It has performed well over the years, but now it’s kinda leaky, maybe even a little grungy from hard water build up and it is hard to ...