Help with pull size/location

13 years ago

Hi! I've tried a bunch of pulls and seem to like them about half the width of my drawers. Most of my drawers fall between 21-24" so I'm going with an almost 12" wide pull. For three much larger drawers, I'm going with an almost 18" pull. My issue is with the cabinets. I thought that the almost 9" pull (end to end), looked fine, especially since the uppers are very large. I have 9" ceilings and I am guessing that the uppers are 4.5' if the standard counter to height is 30" plus 18" for the back splash and I'll have about 6" of crown molding to take it to the ceiling.

What do you think of the 9"? I'm starting to second guess and think it is slightly large.

For the lower cabinets (which tend to have one drawer above them), do I center it vertically or is there a certain % drop down it should have from the top and be closer to the top so one doesn't have to bend. For the uppers, how many inches vertical space do I leave, before the cabinet pull starts

Lastly, I have a farm sink and I noticed (after I ordered the pulls) that the cabinets there seem much shorter. If I have a 50% ratio between my pull width and the width of the cabinet, should I be using a similar formula for the cabinet pulls and the heights of the cabinets? Do you think it is odd if I have yet another size pull for the cabinets? Three different lengths seemed acceptable but for some reason 4 makes me worry, the kitchen will start to look disjointed.

I've attached a photo of the cabinet pull

THANK YOU!

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Comments (8)

CT_Newbie
Original Author
13 years ago
Also, there's one cabinet that is really a pull out for the trash. I take it, I will just put a horizontal pull there because that's the way we would need to hold it to pull it out (even though it looks more like a cabinet than a drawer)?. It's the one to the right of the sink. To the left of the sink is the paneled DW. Do I put two pulls there to match the two pulls to the left of the sink? The door is styled to match.

Thank you! I know a previous post said anything goes, but I;d like to know what people think looks best.
annkh_nd
13 years ago
I think it looks big on the base cabinet. Have you considered putting all the pulls horizontal?

I posted a link to one - Breezygirl has horizontal pulls, as do a few others.

Here is a link that might be useful: theanimala's kitchen
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badgergal
13 years ago
I have 10 inch pulls on my cabinets except for the very short cabinet above the refrigerator. My ceiling is only 8 ft. I love the look of the longer pulls. I also varied the size of drawer pulls based on the width of the drawer.
I aopologize to those that are tired of seeing my kitchen but the visual might help you decide that 9 inch pulls will work.

Also since my trash pullout is under the sink. I mounted the pull on the side rather that the top. It pulls out fine, put fools a lot of people. I could have put the hardware horizontal on my sink base like the dishwasher but didn't think of it at the time the installer was putting them on the cabinets. I couldn't put all my hardware horizontal though because of my curved cabinets.
Ellen1234
13 years ago
I have 9' ceilings, and 42" uppers. I will have some sort of 12" crown/etc. to the ceiling (once I sort that out).

I am going with 10" stainless bar pulls on my cabinets. I have already installed 16" pulls on the drawers (10" ones on BTW - the reason I went with the 10" and 16", in addition to liking the look, is that I wanted the option to change the stainless pulls to the ORB pulls on my maple cabinets, and ORB came in 10" and 16" (Amerock).
cevamal
13 years ago
Piggybacking since I'm also stumped by pull sizes.

I have four 30" drawers and am likely to do 5" pulls everywhere else. I don't want to do two pulls per drawer as I'm certain people (especially me :o) will just pull one of them which will torque the drawer.

How wide do the pulls need to be? My KD thinks a small pull (like the 5") will be hard on the drawer.

My KD & contractor recommended 18" appliance pulls which seems hugely long. (She's not just trying to sell me expensive pulls, her rec. was to do two shorter ones but does see my point.)

Thoughts? I can see that 5" might seem to short aesthetically although I'm not sure I buy that it would make a difference to the function of the drawer.
williamsem
13 years ago
These are 128 mm on 30 inch drawers, both stacks pictured
cevamal
13 years ago
Thanks! I think that looks great.

Has anyone else heard anything about that not being good for the drawer? To have all the force centered as opposed to closer to the edges.
blackchamois
13 years ago
I have a 32" wide 3-drawer base cab and I am leaning towards doing 160mm on those drawers and 128mm on the other drawers which are between 14" - 21" wide. I just ordered my hardware the other day so I'll have to play around and see what looks best.

Keep in mind that anything labeled an "appliance" pull is likely much more expensive.