Kitchen pulls with character - help a botha out! lol
Okay, it is rainy outside.. no work on the house in the past two weeks (don't get me started...lol) and the rain is expected for at least a week.. so no work now either..
SO.. on topic here.. I wanted to browse around for some cool pulls etc for the kitchen.
Now, we have easy/soft close doors and drawers... and I am thinking they will need pulls. I REALLY loved some pulls someone found in an older thread that were some old mfg company from the turn of the century warehouse...but finding enough of them that match could be tough.. and keeping it below 2 million bucks.. lol
So.. anyone else bored today want to see what sort of cool pulls etc we can find for shaker farmhouse cabinets in this color?:
Not sure what else you want to see, you all know the layout, but I can post it again if ya like.
Just doing this out of boredom.. heh
We picked out some cool vanities, but since this is a kitchen forum figured to stay on topic ;)
Hrm... if we add pulls to ALL of the cabs and drawers, we are looking at like 49 cabs and 29 drawers.
Not sure if we need/want pulls on the 12" cabs above the 42" ones though.
Probably will want to get a few extras just in case.. may never be able to locate them again if we get that many.. heh
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Russ Barnard
7 years agoheh.. thanks!
I found a picture a year or so ago on here. I emailed the builder/cabinet company and they said they did that kitchen like 10 years ago and had a ton of requests through the years for the color match and never shared it, but my email was so "nice" they actually sent me the only sample they had of the color for me to match.
Here's the original picture:
The company is Hanson and Co. To me, that was an awesome kitchen. While ours will not be the same, the color should match pretty close.In hindsight, not sure we will be using pulls. I just looked at one corner of the kitchen and there are 3 drawers with the other corner having drawers. At my ranch, we are always bumping knobs on the opposing drawers so I am not sure I want that to happen here. Then again, I may need to just change one side to a cabinet.
See the far corner? That, to me, may pose an issue of always knocking the drawers together.
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7 years agoJust a thought: it's much better to knock hardware against hardware than it is to knock hardware against wood, especially with that gorgeous finish. In corners, something always has the potential to hit the opposite side, but while pull to pull may make noise, it doesn't ruin your cabinet finish.
I can't wait to see your reveal!
Pull and knob ideas follow...
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7 years agoWorld Market offers some nice ceramic knob, though I'm not sure the colors work with your green. World Market knobs
They also had this bronze flower knob:
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7 years agoSomeone had posted old typesetter's drawer pulls he collected off eBay and they were pretty cool.
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