Any one have all knobs or pulls on doors but knobs on drawers

18 years ago

We were thinking of doing knobs on the doors and Pulls on the drawers and the cabinet maker ordered the one we selected. But yesterday they delivered the cabinets and the cabinet maker showed me a problem. We have a set of drawers that are narrow and the pulls we ordered are to big for them. Now we have three options

1)new ones for all

2)decide on using knobs for all

3)uses pulls for doors and knobs for drawers.

My husband wants go the last option route but I am having a tough time visulizing how that would look. I am worried that it may look weird. So if any one has all knobs or pulls on doors but knobs on drawers can you please post pictures.

Also in this situation what option would you chosse?

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bayareafrancy

18 years ago

In my past three kitchens, I've had knobs on the drawers. Not sure why...it just kinda happened that way. Maybe I didn't know that pulls existed until I found this website!

I personally wouldn't reverse them, but only b/c I prefer knobs on cabs--not pulls. If your cabinets are in, you can easily tape them on just to see how they look. I'd probaly either do knobs for all, or, b/c variety is fun, do knobs on cabs, pulls on all drawers but the little one, and then knobs on the little ones.

Francy

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akshars_mom
Original Author
18 years ago
Thanks Francy. I will try the blue tape. The cabinets were delivered yesterday. They start installing them today afternoon or tomorrow.
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holligator
18 years ago
I agree with Francy about putting knobs on just the little drawers. But, I had to laugh because when she was saying what she had in her last three kitchens, I started trying to remember mine. I couldn't even remember what was on the drawers in my LAST kitchen that just got pulled out a month ago! And I lived with that kitchen for 11 years! I guess I'm trying hard to block it out of my head. :)
susan4664
18 years ago
I like the pulls on doors/knobs on drawers design. Like you, I had a few drawers that were small with panel fronts and the pulls were too big. The same for my slide out cabinets, which were very thin.

I ended up putting knobs on some and left the pulls on the others and it looks fine. It's a complete non-issue and everything came out great! Look around the lower part of of my kitchen. The small facing drawers have knobs and the larger ones along the sides have pulls.
Susan
bklyn2pok
18 years ago
Knobs on the uppers-all doors, pulls on the lowers-mix of doors and drawers. Here's my reasoning: the pulls won't catch on my clothing or on the grandkids...and it's easier to put the child safety cabinet locks through the pulls.

I don't know if either of those issues apply to you but our 5 visiting munchkins range in age from 12 months to 9 years so we needed to consider their safety in some of our decisions.

I'm in the process of marking off the hole so DH and I can install the hardware tonight when he gets home...if I absolutely hate it I'll let you know.

That's my 2-cents worth.
Buehl
18 years ago
Check out Sherrilea's kitchen, she has knobs on the very shallow drawers and cup pulls on the rest of the drawers.

Sherrilea's kitchen

I think it looks very, very nice!
akshars_mom
Original Author
18 years ago
Thansk everyone. Really appreciate the input. I have very little confidence in my design sense.