Knobs vs Pulls

9 years ago

I really like the idea of having pulls on all the drawers and cabinets in the kitchen. I guess I feel like it will look more uniformed. Our kitchen opens up to the living room so I was thinking the pulls on the cabinetry by the fireplace too

DH wants knobs on the drawers and pulls on the doors.

The pic I attached is what I submitted to our builder for what we wanted in terms of style and I like the pulls on the drawers. I don't know if we are going to have those little upper cabinets or have single doors that go all the way up to the ceiling. We will be meeting the trim guy soon to make those decisions. I assume having separated high cabinets will be more expensive? If it's that much more, we'll probably do the single door.

We like the Liberty Plaza pull from Home Depot. They have coordinating little knob called Citation.

I am not opposed to knobs like if we wanted to have them in the restrooms. I would just want all knobs in there or all handles.

Am I being weird?

Here is a link that might be useful: Libery Plaza Pull

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Jackie Kennedy

9 years ago

aimless07....I don't think you're being weird at all. Pending on the cabinet layout, having pulls used for door and drawers can help balance the bling. Personally, if you do end up with single doors....I'd probably go with knobs on doors and pulls on drawers above.

Knobs on doors above and pulls on drawers below is our preference for our home as I think it's easier to open a cabinet door with a knob and the pulls offer leverage to pull open large heavier lower level doors/drawers. However for my built-ins in the morning room....I elected for knobs to help diminish protruding hardware. To each his own but at the end of the day.....my DH usually defaults to who spends the most time in a certain room to let that person make the final decision....within reason that is. ;-)

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MFatt16
9 years ago
I don't mind knobs mixed with pulls. If mixing, I would do knobs on doors and pulls on drawers. No rhyme or reason though. I ended up buying cup pulls, large and medium pulls similar to what you posted and also knobs. I am mixing them all over the house. They all coordinate and look good, I think :)
jackfre
9 years ago
Ah, the old knobs vs pulls debate. This is what we did.
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Bah, humbug. It's your kitchen, if you want the functionality of a single pull in the middle, go for it. I have various sized drawers from 24 to 39 inches wide. I did NOT want two of anything on any of the drawers, and thought I wanted cup pulls. Unfortunately, one cup pull of any size on the larger drawers looked lost, and I wasn't sure I'd like the functionality of it. Then the folks here told me that Restoration Hardware makes their hardware in various sizes. Bingo! I chose the Quincy style pull. There is a 4 inch pull on the 18 inch garbage pullout under the prep sink, 6 inch pulls on anything smaller than 36 inches, and 8 inch pulls on everything 36 inches and up. They went in yesterday, and I snapped some pictures before even putting things back into the drawers--so I'm posting a link, but please ignore the clutter on the counters. I know I shoulda cleaned first and snapped photos later, but oh well... :-) Drawer with garbage pullout, 24 inches wide. The 6 inch Quincy pull is actually almost 7 inches long. (6 inches hole to hole): Drawers flanking the cooktop are 23 inches wide, pot drawers under cooktop are 39 inches wide. The 8" Quincy pull is actually almost 9 inches long:
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Charlie horse, I don't follow your logic at all. Pulls work at least as well as knobs for doors. To some extent they work slightly better because the pull can rotate in your grasp as you swing the door open. Your hand angle doesn't have to change while for a knob the hand has to rotate position a bit to follow the knob angle as the door swings. Not that that is a big deal, but a very tiny advantage to pull. In our kitchen, there are cup pulls for drawers and regular pulls for doors but our family room cabinets have knobs for both. It is still easy to look at the handle and tell which you have because the knobs are at the edge of the doors and centered in the drawers. (And the drawers have slab fronts vs. 5-piece doors.) And what I hate at one mall is they have the letters PULL on the outside of the glass doors. But since the letters are equally visible from the inside side of the door and I'm dyslexic, I walk up to the door from the inside, read "PULL" and it doesn't register that it's backwards and I pull.
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MFatt16
9 years ago
Knobs on doors and pulls on drawers right? The hardware is a bit hard to see on my monitor.
aam31
9 years ago
I agree with knobs on doors and pulls on drawers.
Annie Deighnaugh
9 years ago
It really is a matter of taste. We did a mix. Pulls on drawers and upper cabs, but knobs on the glass fronted upper upper cabs, knobs on lower doors and the desk drawer. I dunno...somehow the mix seemed to work ok for us.
jenniekehr
9 years ago
We are using pulls for everything in our kitchen, master bath, and family room built-ins. In the MIL quarters we did a mix, pulls on drawers and knobs on doors.
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9 years ago
I talked to DH and I got it backwards. Knobs on doors and pulls on drawers is what he was talking about so yall were correct on that. I am still wanting to stick to my guns because of the uniformity of it.
MFatt16
9 years ago
At our old house, I did knobs on drawers and pulls on doors for the bathroom. It looked fine and worked but I prefer it the opposite. I agree, its what you like and all the same is good or a mix. I don't care for mixed metals but I think mixing glass and metal can look quite nice as AnnieDeighnaugh stated.
autumn.4
9 years ago
aimless-we did all pulls in the kitchen, and cabinets open to the kitchen (in the living room) the same but different sizes depending on the size of the drawer/door. I just liked them better and knobs in our prior home seemed to come loose for some reason so I ditched them altogether. I haven't thought twice about it or regretted it at all. I agree that it's a matter of personal preference as mentioned above. You can go either way and be just fine.
raee_gw zone 5b-6a Ohio
9 years ago
I did all pulls, all 5". I don't like knobs, and like them less as my hands get more arthritic.
bdslack
9 years ago
You could always do neither (we did this in our kitchen).

Here is a link that might be useful: Blum Servo Drive
joyce_6333
9 years ago
I'm very short, and knobs on lower cabinets catch on my clothing, so I always do pulls. I have bin pulls in my last kitchen and liked them a lot.

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