Our sinks were built in, but their cabinets were low and bending hurt my back. I determined the cabinets could be raised by adding a horizontal board just above the place at bottom that is indented for your toes. It added about five inches, bringing the counters up to the height of our kitchen counters. The board was stained to match the cabinet and is right under where the cabinet doors open. The line of the board is hidden by a length of wood trim. This raising up did require adding pipe to the water lines under the sinks to fill the pipe gap; moving the very large mirrors (no breaks or chips!) upward and moving the lighting above the mirrors up, as well. Took one day of work by carpenter and helper. Well worth the cost.

I have just put one into our holiday home as I've always loved the look. I've always fought shy of having one in our main house as friends and relatives tell me that theirs have chipped relatively easily. I'm being very precious with my new one, but hope that I can keep it unchipped! Personally I'm not a fan of stainless steel belfast sinks as I prefer to have a traditional looking as opposed to a very contemporary kitchen. I do agree though that they can look wonderful in the right environment. Apologies for the picture being the wrong way round, never mastered the digital photo...

Presumably by "granite sink" you mean the man made Silgranite type in an inset style which can be used with work tops that are not solid, ir laminate? as opposed to an under mounted bowl that can only be used with solid surfaces as the cut edge is showing... in that case I would go for the Brown as opposed to cream, I think it would look more seamless and classy, also more practical, I know the light colours are not meant to stain but that would be my concern! If you do go for more expensive solid work surfaces then I would take advantage of that and have an undermiunt, and I think these may also be available in Silgranite material and have drainage grooves routered in but with a recessed surround as this prevents water going the wrong way.

In short no you can’t or shouldn’t. Undermounted sinks aren’t only suitable for solid worktops such as granite, quartz, solid timber and solid surface. Laminate worktops are not waterproof and they will blow so you’ll end up ruining your worktop. Can’t see in detail from the image exactly what it is.