Or you could paint the knobs you have.

Any shade of red that fits with your other reds. (Wolf "Red" doesn't look good with some other reds.),

Plus they're certain to fit your stove.

L.

For an extra $300 (or for free if you attend a demo), you can get any RAL color knob you want on a BlueStar. I got teal-colored knobs, but you could find a good red to go with the other reds in your house. I think there are 190 RAL colors.

I was going to suggest the painting or BlueStar routes as well. One is budget and one is pure commitment.

I have white cabs and a dark counter, but I also love red. I have a red tea kettle and red stools (I know, ewwww) at my peninsula. Inexpensive, movable, and not trying to be anything they're not.

Anyone who would pay $300 to get a colored knob for a stove needs to spend some time at a homeless shelter or a cancer ward for children and get their priorities straightened out.

Anyone who goes online to scold people for spending $300 on knobs needs to get a life.

If you have the cash and the inclination to spend $300 on a single appliance pull go for it.

I didn't scold anyone. No one here spent $300 on red knobs, so I'm sorry if I offend some future person who comes across this thread after having spent $300 for red knobs. Hey, it could happen.

Now, as for your thinking that scolders need to get a life, have you looked into voluntering at your local homeless shelter or children's cancer ward?

May_flowers--if you weren't scolding, what was the point of your post? Also, how people express their charitable impulses is a personal choice; you have no idea what philanthropic activites the posters on this board engage in.

May_flowers, it's all relative isn't it? I'm sure some of your homeless friends might find it outrageous that you spend $20 a month on internet access to troll forums. That $20 could probably feed 100 kids in Africa.

Just because something is outrageous to YOU doesn't make it outrageous.

Is there a special type of paint you'd need to use if you wanted to paint the knobs red?

Since the knobs get touched a lot, I''m afraid that the paint would wear off quickly and you'd need to repaint them quite a bit.

Marvin, there are a number of good epoxy-based paints used in the automotive industry. Check out your local auto supply store and test some of them out on spare knobs or parts. (You also presumably want to find something heat-resistant.)

I used a two-part paint called Ceramit on pieces of my antique stove, and they're holding up well.

I'd look into powder coating them. It's a heck of a lot more durable for something exposed to sweaty oily hands. Look at some auto restoration companies that offer the service, or just standalone providers.

I like your red knob idea. Hopefully one of the range suggestions here will work for you. Have you considered red pendant lights, red backsplash tile, or red window treatments if the range knobs don't work out for you?

I am actually pretty amazed that there's nobody who sells universal colored or patterned range knobs or at least colored/patterned knobs for standard range brands. Seems to me like an untapped market.

[And with respect to 300.00 knobs and childhood cancer. I definitely can see Mayflower's point. However, if you think of all the terrible things that happen in the world, then any kind of talk about granite seams, faucets, or decorating seems frivolous at best. Still, this is a kitchen forum after all, so that's what we discuss.
On the other hand, yes, maybe being reminded that there are other issues puts things in perspective when we obsess about, what are after all are, small details in the bigger scheme of things.]

This post was edited by nosoccermom on Wed, Aug 28, 13 at 14:17

nosoccermom, good post.

I like your idea of a range knob market. I read a lot of reviews of stoves in the $3K range that have really good things to say, except for the chintzy knobs that peel, flake, melt(!), etc. Seems there should be an easy way to remedy that.

Linelle, what is wrong with your red stools? Sound cool to me.

OP, if you can't find the red knobs add in other red elements that are not commitments.

debrak2008, in another thread, there was much guffawing when the subject of red stools came up. :p

I love mine. I used leftover paint from a church-door painting project. And yay for movable bursts of color that allow for fickleness.

My kitchen doesn't have an island or peninsula so there's no space for red stools.

And, I'm hesitant about a red backsplash because I'm afraid of the red from being too overwhelming. I'm probably biased cause the kitchen used to have red tile backsplash, and that red backsplash with all the other red in the kitchen was just too much.

Red's not even my favorite color, but its just a big part of the rest of the house so I was looking for a tiny bit of red color somewhere in the kitchen.

Are there any neutral granite countertops that might have a tiny bit of red in it?

There are some nice pops of red in theanimala's kitchen.

Here is a link that might be useful: 98.627% finished--Animala's kitchen reveal

Depends what red is to you. My white diamond/bianco antico has cinnamon in it. Bianco romano has red dots.

There are so many other ways to add color you don't have to get something permanent unless its what you want. Towels, dishes, cups, bowls, accessories, etc.

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This post was edited by debrak2008 on Fri, Aug 30, 13 at 9:48

Marvin, if you don't really like red, then why be a slave to it? If it's just to acknowledge there's red elsewhere in the house, get a red kettle and call it a day. If you tire of it, put it away in a cupboard. I love red, have lots of red clothes, but I wouldn't want a red backsplash either. The main reason I have a few spots of red in my kitchen (all moveable) is that it's a bit monochromatic. I could have chosen a sassy green or sunny yellow, but red was easier. I don't really go with the thinking that a house is one big outfit and every room has to be coordinated with the other. If there's red elsewhere in the house, let it stay there.

red rug
red window treatment