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I have these (otherwise) beautiful inset sinks. There is one aesthetic issue I would much like to address: the manufacturer has imprinted their logo into the side. The logos are burnt in: they're not stickers unfortunately. It messes with the all-white/clean image that is intended to be portrayed. It actually makes a bigger (negative) impression than might be expected from the photo; it grabs your attention.

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I'm looking for thoughts on how to hide this. For the short term I'm going to put some white slim foam/tape over it. I just don't want to see the logos. White please. That's not a very good longer term solution. My experience with ceramic repair pastes is quite poor; they don't go on smooth and make the sink look broken.

Here is a closer shot for the Semi-recessed vessel sink

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That is a slip-painted logo, fired into the product. There is no reasonable way to remove it.

Options:

  • As suggested in a comment, if you rotate the sink, it hides the logo better.
  • Return the sinks and demand logo-free versions.

That's it.

Since this is not one of those stamped and lettered varieties, but rather slip painted underneath the final glaze, even an artist sign painter would find it hard to paint over the lettering and logo without it looking terrible.

If you have some decal material you think will work and you can stand replacing them regularly as they get grungy then this is probably your cheapest option. A decal won't every really match the glaze, reflection, and colour but if it is an option you can stomach then there's your answer.

I think my eye would see a rectangle of grungy decal more than manufacturer's logo my eye wouldn't even see in a week.

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Beside the other good answers, if someone wants to go the sticker route, there are "vinyl blockout stickers" for blocking out old decals or branding on vehicles and other signage, although they will probably need to be replaced periodically, since it is unlikely that any flexible material will permanently keep a surface like glazed porcelain.

I have copied the advert from a website that offers such products here (I have no affiliation with them):

  • Gloss white face with black adhesive
  • High opacity for zero show through
  • 130 micron extra thick
  • Fire rating - Self Extinguishing
  • Durability - Up to 7 years
  • Roll Width - Various (sold by the metre)

A white gloss extreme opaque vinyl suitable for application over existing decals to overcome the problem of colour show-through, as well as for blocking out areas on illuminated signs or windows. The 130 micron film features a solvent-free, permanent acrylic adhesive.

You would have to experiment with this to know it's water resistance and so on; and also for the thin cross section of adhesive that would show around the edge when installed.

I think there would be aluminum decals with white enamel, but I don't know if this is common and don't know where to look for them.

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In lieu of a very slim tape-like material that can be placed above the logos [and which would reliably remain clean] I am likely to install the sinks backwards. Here is what they look like in that case:

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The differences:

  • the front is nearly vertical instead of inclined inwards
  • no logos!

The clean/white [logo-less] look is worth whatever the slight cost is of having the straight front instead of the intended slanted one.

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Unpopular opinion: do nothing.

You'll forget about it after 6 months and visitors will never notice, unless you point it out to them.

This is one of the times when less can be more.

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Alternative: do nothing with the sinks, but put something around them to cover up the branding. Maybe a vase with some flowers or colored glass beads would work nicely. Maybe a picture frame with something in it, whether it's a picture, some dried herbs, or something else that works in that space to cover the branding without cluttering look.

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I agree that rotation is a reasonable approach in this case. But for future readers where this may not be an option, here is an alternative:

Print the logo in white on top of the old logo.

This way you won't have a weird looking rectangle that will always show in reflection. Instead you will have the original logo but less conspicuous.

Many companies that do product marking for advertising purposes have UV printers capable of this, though you'll need to check if they can handle an item as large as a sink.

For a DIY approach, you can buy UV curable ink, print out a mask on a transparency film and use UV light to cure the ink. To make the mask, take a photo straight from front and some distance away to avoid distortion. Then scale it appropriately and make the text a bit wider (erode/dilate tool) to fully cover the old ink.

If this fails, you can remove the ink with acetone to get back to where you started from.

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