What size ? How many Knobs and Pulls on each drawer?
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Will knobs and pulls help me like my oak cabinets? What size?
Comments (30)I came across this post and just wanted to add that in our old house, we had the cheapest of cheap builder grade 80's oak cabinets that were a terrible shade of orangish. DH, like a lot of men, has an issue with painting "the wood!" "You'll never get the same finish!" Well, actually, yes you can as long as you use a good oil based paint. But anyway...so we comprimised and picked up some "Liquid Sandpaper" from Home Depot or Lowes (can't remember which). You put it on with a rag, wait a bit, and then you can apply a new stain--though it should be darker or brighter (cherry) to cover whats there. It works by opening up the surface and allows the stain to penetrate into the finish...then after 2 hours it "closes" back up and holds in the stain. It took us all of a night to do the entire kitchen. We took the doors off and all the hardware of course to get the best finish on the door fronts. Total cost...about 30.00 with plenty of leftover product. And we too had what looked like "wood paper" on the sides of the cabinets but it took the stain just as well as other areas. I believe thats because the stain doesn't actually get all the way down to the wood, but rather gets encased just under the top coat. But I'm not sure, because it certainly looked like the cabinets had always been the new color--the wood grain was apparent and the finish retained a beautiful shine after. I'm not saying its necessarily a permanent fix but the ease and inexpense created instant gratification. And in our new house when we remodeled the kitchen...it was off-white cabinets or else! :) They are just so timeless......See MoreHow many pulls on 30 inch drawers?
Comments (5)On stacks of drawers 30"+, I generally recommend one pull centered on the top drawer and two on the lowers, larger drawers. I've also recommended a longer pull on the top drawer (6", say) and regular size on the lower drawers (4"). Restoration Hardware tends to have lots of different sizes, and I find that the kitchen looks a little more custom if things are mixed a little....See MoreAdvice please. How many pulls to put on a 33' drawer?
Comments (9)I have two pulls on my 36" pots and pan drawers and 30" dish drawers. I also had the same concerns as you because I had decided I wanted to be able to open ANY drawer with just one finger, regardless of size or weight. I decided the keys were a)the pulls needed to have something to hang onto easily, so I chose strap pulls, and b)the sliding mechanism needed to be perfectly smooth; the heavy duty glides with blumotion that my cabinetmaker used fit the bill....See MoreDouble pull placement on drawer front
Comments (11)I did double pulls on my wider drawers (>= 30") and really prefer the look to single. I think they look more like fine furniture with the two pulls on wider drawers. Yes, I usually just open with one hand/handle, but in 9 years only a couple have gone out of alignment -- and all I had to do was detach/reattach the drawers from the glides and they were back in alignment -- easy! This includes my pots & pans drawers, (36"W) glass dishes (30" to 33"), etc. -- all heavy contents. In fact, the only "drawer" I've had problems with is my single-handled trash pullout, but that's b/c everyone pushes down when compacting the trash or recycling. That door has to be periodically readjusted by adjusting the vertical alignment of the door (I find I just have to push or pull on one side or the other, so not difficult). If you have good hardware, then you won't have to worry about alignment issues. To me, short pulls on wide drawers look dwarfed or "wrong" somehow -- but how anyone feels about the look (OK or not OK) is personal preference....See Morecflaherty
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12 years agolast modified: 9 years agoMost of this is personal choice/preference. There are no hard and fast rules.
Do you like the look of two pulls/drawer on wider drawers? If so, you could get all one size and put one on drawers less than, say, 30" and two on any 30" or wider. You usually do not have to worry about pulling a drawer unevenly with two pulls. As long has you have good quality drawer hardware, you shouldn't have any problems.
We put knobs on doors and our 6" pullouts and pulls on all other pullouts and all drawers. In our case, we put one on drawers = 30". I think the 2-pull look looks more like fine furniture, and I happen to like the look. If I had it to do over, I think I might have put two pulls on the 27" drawers... As to the 6" pullouts, our pulls (5") were too wide to fit horizontally and I don't like the look of vertical pulls, so we went with knobs.
We store heavy pots & pans and heavy glass dishes in many of the two-pull drawers. I usually use just one hand/pull to open drawers and have not yet hand any issues.
If you prefer one pull/drawer, then most will look fine on the drawer widths you listed; none are that wide. I suggest picking a medium-sized pull and just using the same size. You can drive yourself crazy scouring the net and stores looking for the same pull in various sizes.
Whatever you choose, I suggest only purchasing two or three of them and them mocking them up on your drawers to see (1) which look you prefer, (2) how you want to place them, and (3) whether they fit your hands and/or fingers (i.e., comfort).
We ended up with two different manufacturers for our knobs & pulls (both birdcage in antique iron) b/c the knobs in one (Dec Har) fit our hands better (the stem was a little longer) and the pulls in the other (Siro) had nicer curves.
Bottom line....what looks are you drawn to? That will tell you how you should place your hardware.
I do have a pic of how I placed my knobs...
As to our pulls, we centered them on the drawers fronts, except the trash pullout. The pull on the trash pullout is on the frame. Some pics of drawers of similar size to yours:
24", one pull per drawer:
27", one pull per drawer
30" drawers, two pulls per drawer (6" pullout w/knob on the right)
31" drawer (1), two pulls per drawer (another 6" pullout w/knob on the left)
33", two pulls per drawer (18" trash pullout to the right)
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