I found my knobs $ 10.00 a piece less at Cape Cod Brass. The pictures were great on-line and for $12.00 more, they shipped to me in two days. Everywhere else they were sky high and I thoroughly researched where to get them at a discount. I went to local stores to touch and feel them - then when I knew what I wanted, I saved alot of money buying them on line. I am still surprized how many knobs I needed for my kitchen! Good luck.

ttodd - I bought a lovely ivory linen at Calico Corners to use for my CC slipcovered head/foot dining chairs. It was about $17 a yard, much less than the Irish linen I was considering that cost $50 a yard. These chairs are right next to my Shabby Chic side chairs with the linen slipcovers (which I seem to remember was almost an exact match to the Irish linen) and you really can't tell the difference.

This time, I am not asking for help, but rather, I wanted to tell everyone about the awesome experience I just had with Custom Direct Online. I ordered some samples in antique copper. Loved them--very inexpensive, very unusual finish and style, and nice heavy quality. I then ordered a batch of pulls, knobs, etc. We changed our mind on a few things, so I ordered another appliance pull, but returned quite a few extra knobs that I must have mistakenly ordered. I just got a note from them today saying they were waiving the restock fee because I was a repeat customer--a full refund! Woo Hoo! What a great company to do business with. Here is a link that might be useful: Custom Direct Online

Lee Valley Hardware Atlas Homewares Not sure what you mean by "easy to get samples" but I've been happy with orders from both these sites. I second Steve Daigneault's rec. I'm waiting on some new knobs and house numbers from Rejuvenation. Lucked out with a sale on just what I wanted. Happy Mother's Day to me!