Doing knobs on all drawers - what about warming drawer?

14 years ago

I am doing knobs on all drawers - even the 36" ones below my rangetop. I am just a knob person. I have to do pulls on my paneled fridge and freezer drawers and dishwashers, which I am fine with. I really don't want to do one on my warming drawer unless I must. It is a Miele, stacked below two electrolux icon pro appliances. I put a panel on it so it would match the cabinets, and hate to put a pull there (there will be knobs on surrounding cabinets and above speed oven) because I am afraid it will look funny since they won't match the appliances above.

Are knobs a possibility or do they impair function? Should I do a pull? The pulls I have selected are the Top Knobs Somerset in Chrome.

Thanks for any suggestions!

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plllog
14 years ago
I put pulls on all of my integrated appliances, including WD, so that there would be a visual cue that it was an appliance, especially the fridge drawers and WD, since the coolers and DW have their shapes for cues.

You don't have to do that! If you want your WD to look like a regular drawer, put a knob on it! My WD is Monogram, but as far as I know it's like any other WD--there's a gasket that creates the only seal, and it's not a pressurized seal, and the drawer itself is very light weight. There's actually more to pull against in my regular drawers with the springs on the soft closers than on the warming drawer, so a knob would be perfectly functional.

I don't know if my pull looks funny by your definition (looks fine to me, but it's your beholding eye that counts):
brianadarnell
14 years ago
I have a knob on my trash drawer pullout and i hate it. I wish it was a cup pull like the rest. If you like knobs, go for it but I just wanted to provide my two sense just in case. My drawers/trash pullout are all soft close and I think that is why it is so annoying.
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athensmomof3
Original Author
14 years ago
Thanks all. We have all soft close too. I hope I don't hate it! I am just a real minimalist and love the simplicity of knobs. When I looked through the last few magazines I had, the kitchens I loved had all knobs too.

Very glad to know about the warming drawer. Yours looks great Phillog but you have done a great job of matching the handle width with the Advantium. That had never occurred to me - I was picturing this huge Pro handle on the oven and speed oven, surrounded by knobs and a dinky pull. I don't think the pull I like comes with enough heft to pull that off. The 12" one is plenty hefty but it gets skinnier as it gets shorter ;) Plus the 12" one is heavy and $$$ and I would prefer not to buy another!
plllog
14 years ago
Yes, size matters. The pulls on my fridge and freezer are 3' long, vertically, and really hefty. The ones on the DW and fridge drawers, both of which are two feet wide, are 18", and the one on the thirty inch wide warming drawer is 24". That way all of the horizontal appliance pulls are 6" less than the front of the appliance (all are about an inch wide). A dinky pull doesn't make sense.