Kitchen cabinet hardware shouldn’t be an afterthought, something you just throw up on the cabinets just so you can open the doors or drawers. Outstanding decorating is in the details, details, details.
There are four main kinds of kitchen cabinet hardware you may want to buy if you’ve decided to redecorate or renovate your kitchen cabinet:
+ Pulls
+ Knobs
+ Catches
+ Hinges
The first two are very important for the look of your kitchen and the others are necessary to make your kitchen a better place to work.
Kitchen Cabinet Knobs:
Knobs are handles mounted to a cabinet door with a single screw. They do not use a lot of space and all decorative effects you can create by using them are somewhat limited. The strongest point of this part of kitchen cabinet hardware is very easy installation process – most of the knobs have a built-in screw which makes the installation process very easy even to a beginner.
Kitchen Cabinet Pulls:
More decorative, but a little harder to install, pulls are an alternative to knobs. Pulls are attached with two screws, usually using backplates on the opposite side of the kitchen cabinet doors. As pulls take up much more space than knobs, these pieces of kitchen cabinet hardware have great impact on your kitchen’s look, so you have to choose them much more carefully than knobs.
Kitchen Cabinet Catches:
Buying kitchen cabinet hardware is not only about decoration. It is also about the comfort. Catches (pieces of kitchen cabinet hardware that keep cabinet doors shut) have almost no decorative values, but they play a great role in making your kitchen user-friendlier and they are especially critical when small children live in your home. You don’t want the drawers pulled out on top of small little bodies!
Kitchen Cabinet Hinges:
Again, hinges don’t play a very important role in your kitchen decoration, but you shouldn’t economize on this kind of cabinet hardware, as cheap hinges will shortly change your cabinet doors from self-closing into self-opening. Also cheap hinges look cheap and can spoil the effect in any good looking kitchen
Kitchen cabinet hardware isn’t cheap and its effect on your overall kitchen looks and usage is important, so buy the very best hardware you can afford.
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