I don't think I'm ever much help to you with decisions like this because your style is so totally opposite of mine.

I think the first pulls are fine. I'm not head over heels for them with your style. What does the finish you're thinking of look like?

The cup pulls are my fav by far of those pulls, but the ivy reminds me too much of silk ivy hanging down from open soffits from the 80's. A different floral carving would appeal to me more.

Love little glass/crystal knobs. Love them. Any chance of doing them instead of the wedgewood? I'd they're too small, maybe you could find one bigger?

Good luck!

I think the Jasperware looking ones are too identifiable a style. With all you have going on, you want all your little details to blend. Something that specific is going to stick out. I also think that the cabinet itself looks like a single piece of furniture so will look best with a single type of hardware. If I understand what you're doing right, you want a belle epoque look, not flea market chic. Therefore, each piece of furniture needs to have some internal consistency.

The cup pull is cute, but not at all right for this kind of cabinetry. The bail pull is the most authentic look, and very pretty. Is there a matching knob? I like the little glass knobs a lot for this, but then use them for everything, doubled on the big drawers.

Whatever you do, don't do three different things!! And try not to do two that don't match.

Think of a beautiful white blouse. You can have a whole series of pearl buttons, or flat shell buttons, or little bamboo toggles, or crystals, or even big circus dot buttons, and still look elegant and formal. The instant you put a whole bunch of different buttons on it, it gets demoted to cute with jeans or a flirty skirt.

Breezy, If I did the Anne at Homes, I would do a pewter with whitewash:

But now pllog has me thinking it will be too busy.

What if I just do the blue on the little side corner cabinets, since those are painted white and it would tie in my other blue stained cabinet, and then on the main china cabinet I do all crystal. Still too busy and the wrong style for what I am doing?

If I go the all crystal route, which of these are better:

or mercury glass:

or these (in clear) which make the anthropologie handles that might work?
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or the ones above?

And then for the three drawers, probably also glass handles right?

Do either of these work: (in clear, of course)

or

When I saw your cabinets and inspiration DR pictures I envisioned something very specific and you have it as an option. Back up to your first set of pics and its the second to the last handle (the one before the crystal knobs). They also remind me of your fireplace.
How many knobs do you need for the 3 little doors?
Are there matching knobs for the handle that I like because none of the knobs shown will flow with that one.
I don't, in general, like wedgewood - too cutesy for me - but that is personal taste. I like your inspiration pictures but not the wedgewood blue knobs - that is overkill. IMO

blfenton, the problem I have is I don't love the knobs that go with that drop pull. Here they are:
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I could use the flor de leis with it, but that seems very contrived to me:

If I'm not going to do wedgewood, I don't have to stay w/ the Anne at Home line (I was keeping in that line to try to find finishes that match the wedgewood) so I guess I can look for other bail pulls with knobs I like better?

Anyone like these:

With these knobs:

and maybe these on the bottom cabinets:

Either knobs or ring pulls on the little drawers:

Or am I better off with the crystal or something else?

I think the blue will look fine on the corner cabinets because they look like built-ins rather than furniture, plus the look can stand out there since there aren't a whole bunch of them.

Recently, someone posted a bad experience with the quality from Anthropologie. The ball crystal would be fine, though it does kind of shout '60's. The shape of the mercury glass is too identifiably between the wars era. I think the floret would go with the style details of the cabinetry, if the quality is good, though the pull is kind of strange. Strange can be okay--a little deliberate ugly or odd will give a foil to the beauteousness of all of the rest of the details.

I really like the turned look glass pull. It's odd, but in a good way. :) Will it work for the little drawers and doubled for the big ones? I think you could put it with any plain glass knob for the doors.

I think the ring pulls at the bottom are the wrong design for this cabinet. The one with the escutcheon would be great on a less delicately designed piece of furniture, but I think would overwhelm what you have. The bail pull is fine, but the one in your first message here was a lot better for the style. The floret with swirls knob is fine.

Can you do that first bail pull on the little drawers, or is it too big? Does it come in graduated sizes? Because I think the matching drop pull would be fine for the two cabinet doors--there aren't any above, right? It just doesn't bear repeating the drop pulls too much.

I think you could go with either crystal or the Frenchy looking pewter ones. Just keep Belle Epoque in your mind and stay away from 20's-30's production looks, and you should be fine.

I like the styles and colours of the recently posted samples. Although I don't reeeally like the third one down but I do like the others.
My concern with the glass or crystal is that you have a very strong style and sense of style with strong colours and I'm concerned that the glass/crystal knobs won't have a strong enough presence to hold its own.

plllog I have 4 cabinets above, plus all the little drawers, that need knobs. I have the 3 big drawers below plus two side cabinets. The first bail pull does not come in graduated sizes :(

When you refer to the floret, you mean the anthropology one that is like pinky-orange in the picture right? And when you refer to the turned look glass pull, you mean the first one I posted? I just want to make sure I am getting them right.

So, I guess:

Option 1 is (both in clear, of course):
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and

Option 2 is some kind of metal- what about this. First bail pull:

These knobs on upper cabinets and small drawers:

These on lower cabinets:
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or else the other ones posted above. Blfenton, you think the colors on those other ones are OK? I was afraid it would be too dark on a stained blue cabinet. I think I may agree with you on the crystal knob. I love crystal knobs and keep wanting to use them somewhere and they keep getting pushed out for other things!

And option 3 would be to use all the flower shaped crystal everywhere?

Oh! Okay. I thought you meant that the whole upper part of the large cabinet would be open with no doors.

I'd remove any of the knobs with the attached screw. They'll be much sturdier if they have a threaded shaft and the screw coming in from the back.

Yes, by floret, I meant the pink one (in white), but I'm highly worried about the quality. This is what I meant by "turned look glass pull":

I still think the bail pull will go with your French Provincial look, even though it's more of an Art Nouveau style. The matching bar pull is weird. Not sure if it's good weird or bad weird, but I think it's too much to have along side the bail pulls. The knob with the rhinestone seems to coordinate well. Whatever knob you use can go for both the doors and the small drawers. If you really want all three, I'd do the bail pulls on the large drawers, the bar pulls on the small drawers and the knobs on the doors. That might look good. But I still think it would be even better if you had one design for the whole thing.

That is... this is a case where the cabinet and the hardware are fancy enough, and for variations, less is more, in this instance. You already have plenty of more!

What would you pair that turned glass knob with? Just a regular glass knob? Like:

I think this glass knob does look good with the turned shape bar pull, but, again, I'm concerned about the nut back. That should be better if your cabinetmaker countersinks them. The ones with the screw that goes all the way through, like this, shouldn't have a problem with pulling apart. That can happen with the ones mounted on a shaft like the faceted ball you posted (can be put back together with epoxy, but still...).

I actually like this combo. It has a little sparkle but is pretty understated. The style is kind of indeterminate in age and location, which for interpretive, rather than reproduction, is an excellent quality.

Thanks pllog. This is for a dining room cabinet thats probably not going to get used very heavily- we'll open it once in a while to get china out, but mostly decoration. So, I'm not as concerned about there being a problem w/ damaged hardware because it's not like a kitchen that's going to get regular every day use.

Going with the turned pull and crystal knobs is considerably less expensive than either of the other options, which makes it an attractive option given my over-budget issues too.

I'll send the 3 options over to my fiance to see what he thinks and then I'll stop obsessing over yet another room full of hardware! When I went on my cabinet-adding spree once my cabinet maker was so affordable, I forgot that just gave me more hardware to spend hours searching for! :)