Ack! What hardware to put on these doors? (pics)

12 years ago

The cabinets for the family room end of our kitchen/family room area are being made - we hope they will be ready in a week or two. We approved the sample door this week and it suddenly occurred to me that we haven't thought about the door and drawer handles for them. It is odd because I've had a very specific vision of the wall, the fireplace, the cabinets, the new floor but never thought about that last detail - neither color nor shape. When we did the kitchen, we almost instantly knew what we wanted there. We love our kitchen hardware, but I'm just as certain that it wouldn't be the right look for these new cabinets.

The cabinets will be natural cherry. They are "furniture" - i.e. they won't be mounted to the walls (other than a minimal top attachment for earthquake safety on the tall units. Our style is transitional, simple lines. The doors are mitered-frame raised-panel with a simple profile and the drawer fronts will be slab.

Here is a picture of the sample door next to our shaker kitchen cabinets so you can see the hardware we used in the kitchen. Both are natural cherry - the sample door is in new cherry but the cabinets should darken to the same color as the kitchen ones.

The drawers are all 7" high, one is 40" wide and the rest are 20-24". The doors are all 20-24" wide and vary in height from 18" to 30".

Looking around a little bit, a lot of what I see doesn't seem right for this situation - too fussy, too kitcheny, too plain, too shiny, too dull etc. Please help me find something just right. Here are some from Lee Valley that kind of appeal to me at first glance:

A very simple arch in natural cherry finished to match the cabinets:

Or these which are kind of different (and wild compared to my usual very plain pull taste) in the dark bronze or satin nickle:

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leela4
12 years ago
Do you have other furniture in this room with handles or pulls? Looking at your choices above I like the 2nd (in the dark bronze) better than the first, but I'm not even sure about that. I'm trying to remember what the rest of this room looks like; I vaguely remember when you posted pics of the fireplace (I'm old and remember nothing-could you post that pic again?) Looking again, I do like ''E'' and ''F'' the best . . .
Cloud Swift
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12 years ago
We don't really have any other furniture in the room that has handles and pulls except for the kitchen cabinets in the kitchen end of the room. There is a little side table next to the couch, but the drawer to that has a finger pull notched into the bottom of the drawer front.

I'm not wed to either of the ones I showed above. They were just two that caught my eye in a quick browse earlier today.

Here is the fireplace end of the room:

There will be (actually already is but I haven't taken a picture of it yet) a 65" TV to the left of the fireplace with a credenza cabinet below it and tall cabinets on the rest of the wall. It will look kind of like this picture except we decided to have just one drawer in each of the tall cabinets with a door below it and we shrunk the height of the highest door section to make the bottom door section taller.

The mantle over the fireplace will be a simple cherry one - basically a thick slab of cherry.

The kitchen looks like this (picture taken facing away from the cabinet/fireplace wall near the fireplace:

The last part of the space is the breakfast room (we really need to find a different fan/light fixture):
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lisa0527
12 years ago
I saw a Rocky Mountain Hardware version of these pulls (attached) in a neighbours home. They were gorgeous on her cherry cabinets...she called them cabinet jewellry! I'd love to get them but DH says no. It'd be nice to know someone has them.

Here is a link that might be useful: Top Knob pulls
desertsteph
12 years ago
cloud_swift - those are awesome pulls! (A-J) - are they online? got a link?
palimpsest
12 years ago
I like the Whale Tail (D) of the ones you posted.
BalTra
12 years ago
I like the furniture looking idea of cherry pulls, but maybe something less like a kitchen pull?
How about looking here for ideas outside kitchen pull?

Here is a link that might be useful: The Joinery. Poke around!
Cloud Swift
Original Author
12 years ago
Desertsteph, the Whale Tail pulls are online at Lee Valley hardware. The link is below.

Lisa, I think those might be too modern for the doors. Also, it is important to us that knobs or pulls feel comfortable and those look like they might be too thin to be comfortable.

BalTra, we have been looking at furniture pulls and knobs rather than kitchen one. Looking through Fine Woodworking, most of the furniture in there has small knobs or pulls - much smaller in relation to the door and drawer size than I had been thinking. I'm considering going that direction.

If we decide to go with wood knobs and find a shape we like and can't purchase it in cherry, my DH could turn them (though we might have to live with blue tape for a while until he produces enough).

Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.leevalley.com/us/hardware/page.aspx?p=63878&cat=3,43520,43521,43532&ap=1
Cloud Swift
Original Author
12 years ago
How about this pull?

{{!gwi}}

Also looking at some simple mushroom pull shapes.

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