We just ordered a Shaker style cabinet and I am pretty sure we will be installing pull-type handles on everything. I like the way it looks uniform and I've seen it before. I also probably make the most color-safe decisions. It's always easier to change out accessories or curtains for a color splash. Once the floors, cabinets, counters, and backsplash go in you are kind of stuck with the chosen colors...unless money isn't an object!

It depends, in part, on the size of your kitchen.
At 8x12, ours is small compared to many.
If you have a space the size of Breezy's, pulls will look better to most people.
As for us, we went with all knobs.

I chose knobs for my doors, figuring I could always change to pulls later on if I hated it. Not so easy going from pulls to knobs, though.

Of course, now that it's done, I haven't even give it a second thought. :)

Thanks Willtv! Your layout is similar to mine, window, sink, ls, stove. I love the white and black! I'm afraid to look an any more kitchens, for fear that I will see something else I like more!! Your point is well taken and I love the look of your kitchen.
Someone told me they took more time picking out tile than they did a husband - ain't that the truth!

Breezy...would you please share the name of your pulls, and
where you purchased them?

Thanks!

I always think a combination of knobs and pulls looks more interesting than all one or all the other. It just gets a little too matchy-matchy.I have knobs on all the cupboard doors and pulls on all the drawers...same pattern, RH Duluth.

Darbuka--My pulls are Restoration Hardware's Aubrey pull. I used the 4", 6", and 8" lengths. I'll link the thread with more pics. Btw, the pulls are very high-quality and have a great hand feel to them.

Here is a link that might be useful: My not-nearly-done pics

I used a combination of knobs on the uppers, the few lower cabinets, and pulls on all the drawers and the tall pantry cabinets. Link to my photos is below, scroll down to the end for closer-to-finished photos.

Here is a link that might be useful: Getting there kitchen

I did pulls on most and knobs on the tops of the tall cabs and over the fridge/freezer. With hindsight, I'd do all pulls if I were to do it all over again.

We did knobs on doors, cup pulls on drawers. In this cabinet, the right side is our trash bin, the left side has pullouts. With the pull out trash bin, we ended up going with a knob, as the front appears as a door. That's an entire discussion of its own. Most GWs feel this should have a pull. We've lived with it for 3 years with no problems.

nhbaskets, what is that gorgeous wood on your cabinets?

Had just knobs for 15 years on my Shaker cabinets and drawers. Went to handles for the cabinets and cup pulls for the drawers and love it so much better.

Linelle, our cabinets are natural cherry. This pictures was taken shortly after they were installed. They have darken considerably, however, the beautiful grain still shows through

Nancy,Thanks.
We've been living with the kitchen for a about 18 months and there isn't anything we'd substantially change.
We have friends who took 2 years to decide on a backsplash.
So the husband comment ain't so far from true.
Keep in mind, the idea isn't to get it done.
The idea is to get it done right.
I'm attaching a link to our finished kitchen so you can see a few more angles.
HTH.

Here is a link that might be useful: Finished Kitchen

For those of you who switched from knobs to pulls and prefer the pulls, can you tell me why? We have all pulls now and I like them fine, but I was considering putting knobs on the new doors just for a different look. Is it that you like being able to open the doors with one finger, in which case would a knob that accommodates that work as well for you?

northcarolina, the main reason I prefer closed ended pulls to either knobs or European bar pulls (with the ends that stick out) is that knobs and the European pulls tend to catch on my clothing and catch the extension cords of appliances I may be using on the counter. I guess I tend to lean close to the counter.

I had knobs in my old kitchen and this was an issue, so I went with closed ended pulls in the new kitchen from the start. I switched out the European pulls in my bathroom for closed ended pulls as well because my hair dryer was constantly getting caught.

The clothes catching is a real issue as the knobs on my stove do that to me all the time (but we love the stove regardless, lol). I listen to audiobooks while I cook, and the cord to the earpiece catches on the stove knobs and never the pulls on the cabs. It happens in our bathroom as well where there are knobs. I thread the cord to the earpieces under my shirt, so that has cut down a little on the catching problem, but it still happens, and clothes catch on it too.

Since our kitchen knobs are only above shoulder height, in that case, it is the look that I think I'd prefer. I may someday convert them into pulls. To my eye, the pulls look neater and sleeker and the knobs look choppy. It is not a big issue as, lord knows, we have much bigger fish to fry in order to complete our kitchen/house, but it is one of the few choices (other than gc! and floor material) that I'd do differently knowing what I know now. YMMV

We have a caramel maple w/ brushed nickel pulls. I wanted just pulls for visual simplicity, and my previous kitchen had horrible knobs that constantly grabbed my clothing.

lightlystarched,

What are your countertops?

That makes perfect sense about the clothes catching on knobs, thank you all for explaining. I switched out our old damaged pulls to bar pulls that have the ends sticking out a year or two ago, and DH has requested that we not reuse them because they catch on his pockets. So I will do pulls on all the lowers for sure, and I'll decide later if I want knobs up top just for the look.

CCinTX - the counters are soapstone. I have a long posting history with my soapstone, lol. It is very dark, and I go back and forth with letting it stay dark (it wants to be dark) and washing it so it stays lighter.

This is how it looks freshly cleaned (old pic of unfinished kitchen):

Another for you, lightlystarched - what ARE those nice pulls?

bean