knobs vs pulls debate
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Knobs vs Pulls
Comments (13)aimless07....I don't think you're being weird at all. Pending on the cabinet layout, having pulls used for door and drawers can help balance the bling. Personally, if you do end up with single doors....I'd probably go with knobs on doors and pulls on drawers above. Knobs on doors above and pulls on drawers below is our preference for our home as I think it's easier to open a cabinet door with a knob and the pulls offer leverage to pull open large heavier lower level doors/drawers. However for my built-ins in the morning room....I elected for knobs to help diminish protruding hardware. To each his own but at the end of the day.....my DH usually defaults to who spends the most time in a certain room to let that person make the final decision....within reason that is. ;-)...See MoreKnobs VS Pulls
Comments (32)Charlie horse, I don't follow your logic at all. Pulls work at least as well as knobs for doors. To some extent they work slightly better because the pull can rotate in your grasp as you swing the door open. Your hand angle doesn't have to change while for a knob the hand has to rotate position a bit to follow the knob angle as the door swings. Not that that is a big deal, but a very tiny advantage to pull. In our kitchen, there are cup pulls for drawers and regular pulls for doors but our family room cabinets have knobs for both. It is still easy to look at the handle and tell which you have because the knobs are at the edge of the doors and centered in the drawers. (And the drawers have slab fronts vs. 5-piece doors.) And what I hate at one mall is they have the letters PULL on the outside of the glass doors. But since the letters are equally visible from the inside side of the door and I'm dyslexic, I walk up to the door from the inside, read "PULL" and it doesn't register that it's backwards and I pull....See Moreknobs vs pulls
Comments (30)5" is fine, looks good with most widths of drawers and cabinets. I always felt 3.5" were awkward, too small for grasping comfortably but might be necessary on very narrow drawers. If you can use a wider pull on larger drawers (I didn't because the larger size was so much more expensive), I would do that instead of 2 smaller -- buy one or two extra if it is an odd width in case you need to replace? Placement really is to individual taste. I put all of mine on the top frame (of the shaker drawers) and vertical on the side of doors. Not all drawer construction can take a screw evenly through the top frame, though, look at the backside of your drawers to see. I also like pulls placed just a bit under the top frame, and the same on all drawers. I don't care for having the pulls centered in the center panel so much, especially when drawers are different sizes....See Moreknobs vs. pulls?
Comments (2)There are a lot of threads on this. In my house that I built almost seven years ago, I used almost all knobs. I am redoing a house now and will mix pulls on drawers and knobs on doors. I think pulls are more on trend right now. Cup pulls seem to be a classic. I have always wondered if they are a pain on low drawers. Do you have to bend way down to get your fingers under it? There really isn't a wrong answer on this. Perhaps find an inspiration picture?...See MoreKW PNW Z8
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