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Where to mount SubZero door pulls?

14 years ago

This DIY kitchen is dragging on, but at least my appliances are in and I'm cooking again!

One thing that I keep postponing is my freezer drawer panels. We bought the SubZero used and it had a single knob on the door and cup pulls for the drawers. I didn't like opening any of the doors this way, so I bought large appliance pulls. But now I'm having trouble determining where to mount them.

Here is the fridge in its cabinet (not leveled or centered yet, and fridge cab still sports old pulls, so please ignore):

The fridge door handle location can't change. There is a metal mounting bracket on the back that is in the way for any other position, so I had to put the pull there. The previous cup pulls were mounted in the center of each freezer drawer panel. But the panels are different sizes, so I'm not sure if centering looks odd. I really wanted the pulls mounted on the top rail, as it would match the fridge door and the dishwashwer.

Like this (I don't know why the freezer panel look so washed out in all the photos, but they are the exact same color as the fridge and dishwasher):

Dishwashwer:

The problem is, there is a metal mounting bracket on the backside right in the way on both freezer drawers. All I can do is bring it right to the top of the recessed panel, but I'm not sure that looks right.

Freezer drawer panels, pulls centered:

Freezer drawer panels, pulls up high:

There is a tiny possibility my DH could manage to use the right bit and drill through the metal bracket at the top rail. Before I asked him to try, I would want to make sure this was absolutely the best and only position for the pulls. Do you think it's the right way to go, or would one of the other two choices look and function okay? I've been squeezing my fingers into the sides of the freezer drawers to open them, and I'm ready to get the panels and pulls on, so any help is appreciated!

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