I am one of those with the popular RH Gilmore bin pulls. Love them!

The Schaub pulls and the RH pulls are going to be equal in terms of comfort, heft, ergonomics. Between those two brands, what matters is you getting the look you want, so whichever better fits your envisioned aesthetic is what you should get. With neither brand will you be unhappy (I believe).

I have (a ton of) the 4" bin pulls -- both to my eye and hand they felt right. (They look right and, as you wrote, they're more comfortable for us.)

About the finish, it is so hard to make a determination without photos (because there are so many other factors at play), but based on just the description of the materials you'll be using I'm leaning toward the ORB. Have you seen divamum's kitchen? She has natural maple cabinets and ORB pulls and, to me, it just looks right. Now that's not to say satin nickel won't also look divine, but that's my gut reaction.

Good luck -- you're going to have a lovely kitchen!

Thanks for your response! I'm thinking of ordering a couple of the RH pulls and seeing what I think of them up close.

I'm afraid that I don't have any pictures to post at the moment, as my kitchen space is completely gutted. However, I did take a look at Divamum's kitchen, and I think that the ORB might be the way to go. It'll provide some dark tones in the kitchen, which I think we're missing at the moment.

Will it look strange to have ORB hardware with stainless everything else? (I often see people with ORB finished faucets etc. and I haven't done that).

Thanks again!

Yes, ORB will be great with the stainless in an old house. That's what I'm planning after consulting with the designer. I was hoping she would say it would work. She doesn't hold back to spare my feelings, so I trust her opinions.

In a house of that vintage it's a lot more interesting if it looks like the kitchen happened over time - layering more modern details over a base in keeping with the house.

It sounds like you have a lovely plan coming together.

I was considering using either a satin nickel finish or the ORB. Which do you think would look better with the natural maple cabinets?

while i love the look of ORB, from what you've described, i think chrome or polished nickel would look best. using ORB would be introducing another color/material/element to your kitchen, while the silver hardware would just pick up all the stainless you've already got going on.

i think either would look fine with your cabinets, but considering the other elements, i'd go with chrome or nickel.

(your kitchen sounds like it's going to be gorgeous, by the way.)

fustian- You were wondering about how deep the RH Gilmore pull is...here's a 4" Gilmore pull. I wish I knew how to embed more than one picture with my post. I know it can be done, I just need to figure it out!

another view of the 4" Gilmore Pull.

hopefully a larger picture of the Gilmore pull

There's not a crack or a vertical line on the pull...it's a reflection from the strap on my camera : )

If you go with the Gilmore pull, be sure to go with the 4 inch. I found the 3 inch lacked finger room. They were very
pretty.

Thanks so much for all of your help - particularly those photographs!

I called RH and ordered a couple of pulls so that I can see what they look like and put them up next to the cabinets to compare finishes.

It seems like a bit of an extravagant waste of money, but I guess there's no sense in complaining about $50 at this point in the process :(

fustian -- Restoration Hardware has a very liberal return policy. So while you'll be out the shipping charges, if you choose to not use the RH pulls you can absolutely return them, no problems.

I purchased & installed on cabinetry (in the old kitchen) some of their longer pulls (in hopes of using them for appliance pulls). Then, when we realized they weren't going to work for our application we removed them and returned them without a single problem. At first I was hesitant to try to return something I'd opened up (they come individually wrapped in plastic baggies) but as I was going in to purchase something else thought I'd at least try to get a store credit. They were willing to return it outright! Not just for store credit.

So you'll be okay opening them up and even putting them on a scrap piece (as I'm assuming you won't want to test on your new cabinetry), even if you decide to go with something else.