Keep all cabinet hardware the same finish. You can use both knobs and pulls, and different size pulls (although personally I prefer all pulls to be the same size), and keeping the finish the same will tie them together.

If you have more than one sink, I’d use the same finish for both faucets. It doesn’t have to be the same finish as the cabinet hardware. If your sink is stainless, I’d choose a stainless faucet.

The style and size of the pendants, and how they relate to both the style of the cabinets and any room open to the kitchen, is more important than matching the finish to the cabinet hardware.

I had the same dilemma. I love gold but all my appliances were black/stainless steel. I ended up choosing stainless steel faucet and sink, and black pendant lights. For cabinet pulls, I went with what made my heart sing, "golden champagne" hardware. I love how the muted gold color pops against bright white cabinets.

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Cabinet Hardware selection is dependant a variety of factors; style of kitchen, existing metals (appliances), and design preferences.

It is difficult to formulate a proper response when we cannot actually see your kitchen and all of the factors that bring the room together, but here are a few things you can consider.

1. I would recommend that if you see a pendant online, contact the supplier and ask if that same version comes in another finish. Sometimes that is not always transparent online.

2. Consider an all black fixture so that you are not competing with finish colours.

3. A combination of knobs & pulls in different lengths is completely acceptable. For example, on smaller drawers you can add a knob or a small 3" - 4" pull and on longer cabinets (pantries) or longer pan drawers you can add a longer pull in a 6" - 8" pull (of course dependant on the drawer/cabinet size. Remember: knobs can tend to look busy.

If black is not your thing with cabinet hardware and you don't want to go with stainless, consider a metal with a slight patina (of course again dependant on the style of your kitchen). Like an antique Nickel.

I hope this helps.

Best Regards,

Cindy

We actually had this same dilemma in a master bathroom remodel. A basic concept which we applied to that area was that as long as you repeat the colors of the finishes elsewhere, it can help tie things together. We used a total of 3 different finishes, and found fixtures themselves that were 2-tone, and it actually blends together quite nicely.

So, applied to your kitchen, there are some faucet companies that do custom finishes where you can actually get a 2-tone faucet if you so desired. @StarCraft Custom Builders home website gives you the lowdown on which faucet companies can do 2-tone finishes. You can also find hardware that comes in 2-tone finishes. So, that's one option.

However, let's assume you want to pick a single-tone finish for each item. Polished nickel is close enough to chrome, I believe, that perhaps you should reconsider the faucet finish and go with chrome to match your pendants. Stainless steel has a slight edge over chrome on durability, but you seem to like the polished aspect, so chrome would give you that and be long-wearing for the faucet. I'm not hearing you say you want to repeat a polished nickel finish anywhere else, so that's why I'd recommend something that can be repeated elsewhere in the room to help tie things together. Chrome plays well with stainless steel appliances, but you are saying you don't feel the cabinetry hardware would remain clean-looking enough to use chrome or polished nickel there. This might be a place where you could repeat the black color, or any stainless steel hardware would also work. There are so many options out there right now for non-standard hardware finishes, you could even go with a leather look or something more exotic if you wanted.

Hope that gives you some ideas. Repetition is one of the keys to making things blend.