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Has anyone done mixed pulls/knobs on a bank of drawers?

15 years ago

Can anyone show me a bank of drawers (peninsula or island) with a mix of knobs and pulls? Or is that really bad?

I'm doing an all drawer peninsula. The doors have deep applied moulding, so cup pulls (my original intent) won't fit on the smaller drawers. Can I still put cup pulls on the large drawers? Will it look odd to have both? (Cup pulls large drawers and knobs or handles on the small ones?)

And if so, which? (knobs or handles?) My knobs are oval BTW.

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dd70
15 years ago
FWIW, I like mixing it up like that and if you like it then it's not 'bad'. I dont have a recent pic with it finished but I have a tall cabinet with built in M/Wave. Under it is two drawers and a cabinet. The top drawer is a slab in which I have 2 drop pulls, the second drawer sound like yours and I have 1 regular pull, the 2 door cab below has knobs.

Its not an island or peninusula but maybe you can get an idea and visualize my pull placement.
From 2008-02-03, Kitchen Reno

They sell removable putty that you can use to temp. attach the knobs/pulls to the cabinets to see if you like it.

Here is a link that might be useful: putty
maydl
15 years ago
The best thing to do is buy samples (hopefully returnable) and experiment.
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biochem101
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These knob questions must seem silly to everyone, but after all the design work (I'm my own KD) and everything THAT involved, I find myself stumped on this simple piece of the puzzle.

Fortunately my cabinet maker just informed me he can provide "sample sets". He has apparently proved 15 of them to another customer whose kitchen was finished 2 months ago and she still can't make up her mind! I feel better. I'm down to 3, maybe 4 sets. :) (I think...)

The metal question I asked earlier still isn't resolved. I'll just get several kinds now that I know this.

What I was really wondering with this question was about putting handles on the small drawers and cup pulls on the large drawers (same stack)? Or if it would look better to put knobs on the small drawers and cup pulls on the large ones? Or just 2 knobs on the large drawers and keep everything uniform?

I like the uniform (all knob) pictures, but I like some of the pretty pulls in the sets too! :) (This is not going to be resolved soon, don't pay any attention to me!) But Thanks for answering!
bluekitobsessed
15 years ago
Not quite sure if this is what you're looking for, but here's a pic of bar pulls and cup pulls on one bank of drawers. I had all cup pulls but it ended up looking like one die (dice).

Also FWIW, here's a pic of some thematically matched knobs on a a bank of drawers. The pic doesn't show them well but they are Flour, Sugar, Salt, and Cookies.
ljsandler
15 years ago
Here's a pic of a drawer stack with mixed handles--I think it makes it more interesting when they all do not match:

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