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| Had to keep it clean ladies and gents! Restarting this thread per a couple of requests to make it easy to find!
Show those of us in the planning or implementing phase some beautiful (and not so beautiful) pictures! |
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| Mine are Berenson Adagio. I don't see Berenson much. My cabmaker gave me the catalog. Berenson is in Buffalo. The finish is very nice on these. I chose them because they were simple and didn't conflict with the other lines. I put two pulls on 36" drawers.
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- Posted by jodi_in_so_calif (My Page) on Fri, Aug 10, 12 at 23:31
| Clean and simple. From Kraftmaid: Satin Chrome 5" (Style 205)
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| I bought mine on Over Stock, really am happy with them too. Stone Mill Newport Satin Nickel Cabinet Knobs/pulls
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Here are a couple shots of my pulls. I used 10 inch pulls on all cabinet doors and various sizes on the drawers depending on the width of the drawer. The pulls are Hickory Hardware's Greenwich Collection.    |
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| Don't hate me. I can't remember what brand these are without digging around my house for paperwork. ORB on quartersawn oak. If I can manage to find it, I'll let you know. They weren't overly expensive, but not cheap either. I took them with Instagram because I was just too tired and lazy right now to pull my real camera out :P Working on one cup of coffee right now lol.
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| Thank you! Keep them coming! I am detecting a trend on the cabinet pulls that they seem to start right around the edge or just above the bottom board on a shaker cabinet and move up from there (or the opposite on a lower). Badgergirl - interesting placement of your handles on your drawer banks. Does it work well for you? |
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| Mine are Jeffrey Alexander stin nickel. I used a backplate on my big drawers to be a little different.
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- Posted by gsciencechick (My Page) on Sat, Aug 11, 12 at 21:00
| Ikea Gravyr satin nickel
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| We went a bit crazy, so I have lots of examples
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Hags00: the placement of my pulls works great for us. As you can see in the picture below the pulls have a nice projection. There is plenty of room for any size fingers to fit behind the pull, even on the top drawers with the granite overhang. I knew I wanted the pulls mounted on the rails so I just pretended like the top drawers had rails and put the pulls in the same location on those drawers as the 5 piece drawers. I thought that if I put the top drawer pulls in the middle of the slab drawers they would be too close to the pulls on the drawer below it.  |
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| All knobs. All the time. From D. Lawless Hardware |
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| Birdcage - surprisingly, they have not been difficult to keep clean, even when some dough dropped on them. However, I don't think I'd recommend them to anyone with small children - because, in my experience, small children often have sticky fingers - sticky with peanut butter, etc. - and I think then it would be a problem. My children were 12 & 13 when we finished our kitchen (except a backsplash *sigh*), so they were beyond that stage. That said, I really like them! Knobs by DecHar:
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| Interesting! For me, this is one of the biggest decisions! Do it wrong and you have drilled holes in your thousands of dollars worth of cabinets! Your location is a pretty permanent decision! I know I am a pull person not a knob person. I got free pulls with my cabinets. I have no idea what they look like, they are sitting in a box in the garage! When I ordered the cabinets, they said, You get free pulls or knobs and showed me a board and I picked. I know the board did not have any of my top choices on it so I might be pull shopping. The pulls on the top rail caught my eye. There was one post on here, (sorry I didn't get the name) with center location on the top drawer and top rail on the lower drawers, that is interesting too. Anyone here on GW put all their pulls horizontal, even on the cabinets?? Got to look on Houzz and see if I can find some. Thanks to all, I am enjoying the photos! |
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| Breezygirl placed her pulls horizontally on her upper cabinets. If she doesn't reply you can search on here for her gorgeous kitchen. |
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| Breezygirl placed her pulls horizontally on her upper cabinets. If she doesn't reply you can search on here for her gorgeous kitchen. |
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Ours were included with our cabinets from Plain & Fancy  |
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| Found mine on ebay...dirt cheap ($1.80 per pull). They are nice and heavy. Just what I was looking for. |
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- Posted by beaglesdoitbetter (My Page) on Sun, Aug 12, 12 at 21:57
| Ours are from Designer Glass Mosaics. They are custom and they will work w/ you on color and style.
I also got these Mother of Pearl from Schuab. They were a splurge but they are so delicate and lovely that I smile every time I see them! |
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- Posted by debrak_2008 (My Page) on Wed, Aug 15, 12 at 14:55
| How about more photos of cup pulls? |
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| My house is 6-7 yrs old. Don't recall the brand. Would not recommend this style. Initially, they have a built-in stop that keeps them from going all the way down and damaging your drawers. With heavy use that wears out. Also 7" centers are impossible to replace with something that looks decent.
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- Posted by theanimala (My Page) on Wed, Aug 15, 12 at 19:23
| Don't have a better/closer picture unfortunately. These are the Princetonian from Top Knobs, all placed horizontally.
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| I think the all horizontal looks interesting, thanks. Got to consider that one! |
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| haven't installed them yet, but we have cup pulls and knobs: |
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| theanimala, how do you like the function of the horizontal pulls on the upper cabinets? And when you center the pull on the upper cabinet, how long did it take you to get used to which way they open? And do guests constantly try to open them the wrong way? I'm leaning towards that exact look, but I'm wondering about the "feel" of opening cabinets that way as well as if there's any issues with it that I wouldn't be aware of. |
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| No pictures right now, but when we were chosing knobs and pulls for our new Arts and Craft inspired cabinetry we were wondering about the appropriate selection of hardware and the mixing of knobs, pulls, and clamshells (cup pulls) (at least that's how we referred to the 3 types.) We ran across a great site (creative juice - what were they thinking? - Kitchen Cabinet Hardware) that provided some great advice, good pictures and a little humor: http://studiobcreativejuice.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-were-they-thinki ng-thursday_16.html If you're struggling with hardware choices like we were (we started in an online site that offered 13,000 knob choices) this site might give you some ideas. (We ended up mixing all three types - a little unorthodox but we think the effect is great. We had the confidence to try it because of some examples from the creative juice blog.) |
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| We just have basic arch pulls - after I ordered mine, I fell in love with badgergal but BG convinced me to stick with my first choice.
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- Posted by breezygirl (My Page) on Sat, Oct 27, 12 at 1:24
| As Badgergirl said, I placed all my pulls on both upper and lower cabs horizontally. Restoration Hardware Aubrey.
I'm not a knob person so it was easy to decide on pulls everywhere. It took me no time at all to get used to the placement. I like the cleaner lines of all of them oriented the same direction. |
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- Posted by gitananoel (My Page) on Sat, Oct 27, 12 at 10:27
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| I am thinking of going with glass knobs and a metal cup pull. I thought that all of the metal knobs and pulls would distract from my cabinets. If anyone else has cabinets with glass knobs, please post a picture. |
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- Posted by michelle16 (My Page) on Mon, Nov 5, 12 at 10:26
| Glass knobs on glass doors, latches on other doors, ill post another picture of the pulls in polished nickel. |
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- Posted by michelle16 (My Page) on Mon, Nov 5, 12 at 10:29
| more glass knobs |
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| Thank you Michelle16! I absolutely love the different cabinet hardware and the idea that glass knobs would be on glass doors. Door jewelry.
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| Here are mine, all Amerock. Handles: Mulholland in Rustic Brass Cup Pulls & Knobs: Manor in Weathered Brass |
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- Posted by mamadadapaige (My Page) on Mon, Nov 5, 12 at 21:08
i have a different type in my butler's pantry than in the kitchen.   |
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| One of these days I will figure out how to post more than one pix in a posting. This is the mudroom. Knobs and pulls are Emtek in oil rubbed bronze. |
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| These are the kitchen knobs/pulls. The knobs are Colonial Bronze, in 2 finishes - the outside is pewter, the face of the knob is brushed nickel. The handles are Omnia, in brushed nickel. I have one drawer under the oven with 2 of these but in 3" size. The other drawers have the 7 1/2" pull you see here. I love that they are long enough to hang a tea/hand towel on. I have them on my apron drawers in front of each sink. |
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| Sorry about that - pix didn't upload. |
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| Last but not least, we selected Notting Hill knobs and cup pulls for this cabinet, which is intended to look more like a piece of furniture than a part of the kitchen. |
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| A la LOWES! :) |
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- Posted by breezygirl (My Page) on Tue, Nov 6, 12 at 11:45
| Kachinee--I installed Rejuvenation glass knobs on my glass dish hutch. I also put them on my booze upper cab in the DR.
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brushed nickel pulls in my kitchen. I got them at the now-defunct Great Indoors in Burbank.   |
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| pipdog - stunning backsplash! love it! |
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| Segbrown, are you still around? I was wondering about your pulls on the upper, white, glassed cabinets? They look longer than I'm finding and I really like them! Thanks, |
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- Posted by breezygirl (My Page) on Wed, Nov 7, 12 at 1:31
| Christine--Those are the RH Aubrey pulls like I have. The longest length is 8". Segbrown's kitchen was the first place I saw them used and loved them. I'll link her finished kitchen post below. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Segbrown's finished kit
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| Darn! I do like those, but I admit I am still trying to find those more delicate pulls. I did buy the Lee Valley Twin Bow for my MBR. Love them! |
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- Posted by drbeanie2000 (My Page) on Fri, Nov 9, 12 at 17:02
| We went with all pulls; this decision was made easier after living with knobs in our rental house kitchen. I don't think I'd like cup pulls and not being able to pull from the top. Our cabinets hardware-installer guy kept telling us that "most people put their pulls on the center panel - are you SURE you want those pulls on the upper piece?" Also "are you SURE you want two pulls on this drawer? It will look really crowded." Maybe it does to others, but most of my drawers are pretty wide, and anyway they are simple arches like a2gemini's. Inspired by a2gemini's! |
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| I love this thread, what a reference guide of pulls and knobs and placement. I am the OP and this thread will have its three month anniversary tomorrow I think! And I still have no pulls, but since I have blue tape pulls I have been a much happier camper! My pulls are on order, I was unwilling to spend the amount necessary for the pulls I kept falling in love with so compromises were made! But from this thread I am going all pulls, all horizontal and I think I am going to put my drawer pulls on the upper rails on the drawers even the top drawer. I will post a picture because this thread won't be complete if it doesn't have my pulls on it! Sometime in December maybe...... |
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| Cabinet pulls - Jeffrey Alexander "Lafayette" in satin brushed nickel (or somesuch) finish. Cabinets are ivory - not really pink, the lighting did that. |
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| This is the OP and I am finally installing my pulls and have a question - Has anyone ever seen pulls done in one direction on the lowers and another direction on the uppers? When I hold up my pulls, my uppers are really telling me to hang vertically even though I was intrigued by horizontal placement. The kitchen is small and it really seems to match well with the vertical handles on my OTR microwave and fridge. On the other hand, on the lowers, both appliances have the handles horizontal, I have 5 cabinet doors and 2 drawer banks. So the drawer banks and the drawers above the cabinets doors all have horizontal pulls on the top rails and I am tempted to do the lower doors horizontal too, centering on the upper rail of the door. Anyone seen anything like that? |
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| I haven't seen what you are describing but I think it would be fine as long as you have some consistency like you stated with all uppers vertical and all lowers horizontal. I have lots of drawers in my kitchen so lots of horizontal pulls. As I look around I think it would have looked good with the lower doors having horizontal pulls too but some of my doors are curved so pulls cant be horizontal on those. My sink is located in my island and the dishwasher there is paneled with the pull on the top rail. I thought about putting the pulls horizontally on the adjacent sink cabinet (to be consistent with the dishwasher) but I didn't do it because on that run, the curved doors would have been vertical and the others horizontal. That would have been too mixed up for me. Sometimes I wish I would have put the dishwasher pull vertical like all the rest of the run but maybe that would have been too weird for opening the dishwasher. As it is, the vertical pull on the trash pullout confuses everyone. Oh well. |
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| I love the variety of pulls and knobs giving me ideas. Thank you everyone for sharing. |
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- Posted by breezygirl (My Page) on Sat, Dec 1, 12 at 1:02
| Hags--I've not seen hardware placement like you mentioned, although maybe I have but didn't notice. I also think it will look fine as long ad you are consistent. After all, many people install vertical pulls on uppers and then have almost all bases drawers with horizontal placement so it's about the same! Good luck and post 'em up when they're on!! |
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| Yes, I saw a friend's kitchen yesterday with pulls placed on the vertical and oriental. A few knobs where they made sense as well. It looked great! It actually made it look more custom and more "them" as they placed the pulls how they made the most sense. i would not hesitate one bit. |
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| Got all my drawer pulls on last night. Today I am going to work on the uppers vertically. Last I will leave my lower cabinets and see if I have the guts to drill them horizontally after I have everything else on! |
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| OP here and I am done installing pulls! Tiny galley kitchen, simple lines. I did end up putting all my pulls on the uppers vertical and all my pulls on the lowers horizontal. So here is something different to look at... My pull -
The side that was my inspiration, fridge is just to the left off the picture and shares the exact same handles as the microwave -
The lowers on that side, only one door to the left of the range and I didn't want to put the pull vertical -
The other side where it didn't work so cleanly but I still like it -
The other end of that same side -
Sorry for the number of pictures but when the distance between the two sides of your galley is 4' you can't get in and get very good pictures! Here is my disclaimer and a thought starter. After I put the first drawer pull on the top rail, I wished I had not. I like the look quite a bit and I like the function (I used to knock my knuckles on the top rail reaching in for the pull on the center of my narrow top drawers in my last kitchen). I am an engineer by trade, I spend my days figuring out why things fail and designing things so they won't fail. With today's soft close drawer glides, there is always a force keeping the drawer closed. When you pull the handle to open the drawer you are providing force in the opposite direction. When you put a pull through the center of a drawer you are clamping the drawer front to the drawer box with two screws. That is fantastic for durability. When you put the pull on the upper rail, your hand force is pulling on the drawer face and the drawer closing mechanism is pulling in the opposite direction on the drawer box. You are basically trying to pull the two apart every time you open the drawer. I expect to be reattaching or reinforcing drawer fronts to drawer boxes at sometime on my most often used drawers. |
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| hags00: your cabinet pulls look great. I have had my pulls installed on the top rails of my drawers for about a year now and there is not even a hint of the drawer fronts loosing or become detached. Just went and looked inside my drawers and the drawer boxes are attached very securely to the drawer fronts with 4 screws. My drawers are soft open/close and I can't see how there would ever be enough force exerted to cause the drawer front to loosen. Just curious, how are your drawer fronts are attached to the drawer boxes. |
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| Mine are two screws on the small drawers, 3 on the large. But they are a pretty coarse threaded screw (I just replaced a drawer front so I got a good look at the fastner). I don't think my drawer fronts are going to come flying off in the near future. But instead of attaching them in a manner which made them unable to separate, I used a method that cause me to be loading the joint between the drawer front and box every time I pull. I've already scoped out how I am going to reinforce them if I get any loose fronts!! |
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| I love the sleek look of your pulls, hags00! What brand and material are they? I'm in the process of hunting for hardware, and this thread has been helpful. My cabinets are a transitional style cherry, and I think I need something slightly less modern, but still sleek and simple. |
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| So glad to have seen this post! |
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| Finally get to join this thread. |
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| Rocky Mountain Hardware ~ silicon bronze finish |
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All the slab drawers have 4.5" cup pulls, and deep drawers and pullouts less than 21" wide have 6.25" pulls:  Base cabs with large deep drawers have 12.5" pulls : All the base pulls are from Hafele. All the uppers have Old Town glass knobs (ebay): The banquette and lockers have 6.75" black pulls from IKEA. Having a variety of hardware really works in my cozy kitchen. |
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| This was such a helpful thread for me when trying to pick pulls. It was so much easier when I could see actual photos. A shout out to Poohpup who's pulls I decided to use. I'm getting them in the satin nickel. Hopefully I can post soon! (Cabinets are going in as I type this!!!) For anyone posting, please remember to list the name of the knobs/pulls. Thanks for a great thread! |
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| I have stained cherry kitchen cabinets. We recently replaced our appliances with very nice stainless appliances. I'd like to update our cabinet knobs and I'm thinking of perhaps birdcage style knobs. Question: should I get an oil-rubbed bronze finish that would blend with the cabinets or more of a satin nickel finish which could coordinate with our appliances? I'd love to hear peoples' thoughts. |
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| I would go with hardware that goes well with the cabinets. I am having a hard time with mine as well because I am tired of brass and antique brass, but I don't want to go with oil rubbed bronze, and silvery shades wouldn't look good with my cabinets. |
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