What Kind of Hardware Can I Place on Kitchen Drawers?
It's common for customers to use knobs, pulls, and handles on kitchen drawers, but when it comes for ease of use pulls and handles are usually preferred. This is the case even more for longer, heavier drawers where it's more helpful to have additional leverage coming from a longer cabinet pull.
Size Consideration of Drawers
For drawers there are different strategies for placing your cabinet hardware. It's typically a bit more straight forward then kitchen cabinets, which makes your choices easier. The overall length of the drawer is super important when choosing your
Longer Drawers
The number and size of knobs, pulls, and handles you use on a drawer is directly dependent on the size of the drawer. This is the most utility focused consideration that effects the ease with which you are able to open the drawer.
On longer drawers, some more avant garde customer opt into multiple knobs for a look that is more unique. For a more differentiated look, some customer will double up on pulls with two short pulls. This not only streamlines the aesthetic but also provides more surface area for convenient drawer access, enhancing overall functionality. It's recommended to place pulls horizontally on drawers for an optimal and visually appealing hardware arrangement.
Most common for a classic look is to use a pull that covers more horizontal distance of your drawer. In this case you'd look for an 8" or a 12" sizes cabinet pull. For example, our diamond pull or our twist pull are great options that customers usually opt for. They are sturdy and allow for the drawers to be opened with ease due to the heavier weight.
For a more minimal look use a short 96mm or 4" pull to create a sophisticated, lighter look. We love this in a light colored kitchen. We especially love our clarity acrylic pull to make it a contemporary, modern kitchen. Browse clarity 96mm sized pulls here.
Shorter Drawers
For shorter drawer the decision is quite a bit simpler. You will most likely be choosing between cabinet knobs or shorter cabinet pulls / handles. A combination of multiple knobs could be user or one larger knob like our diamond cabinet knob.
We recommend a shorter cabinet knob that is slim and elegant or something like our acrylic pull. Other options for pulls include edge pulls, finger pulls or cup pulls.
Style Consideration of Drawers
Some drawers have a front panel while other are more minimalistic and have no front panel. The latter is much easier and open ended on where you can place your cabinet hardware and have it still look good.
Drawers with Panels
For drawers with panels you want to make sure that the size of your pull does not overwhelm the space you have in the center of your front panel to place your pull. You don't want to have it look overly crowded. Ideally, it's aligned vertically and aligned horizontally in the middle of your front panel.
Plain Drawers without Panels
For plain drawers it's easy to put edge pulls at the top of the drawers. More classical pulls can be placed in the middle of the drawer or the top half of the drawer 25% up the drawer. If the drawer has more height you can get away with vertical pulls for a very differentiated look.
