Picture Perfect: 50 Kitchen Handles to Hold Your Attention
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Deirdre Avenell
2 April 2018
Houzz editorial team. DIY/decorating nut, photographer and jewellery designer.
Even the simplest of kitchens can be made spectacular with the right door knobs and drawer pulls, and this collection of kitchen hardware runs the gamut from simple yet striking to truly out-there style. Take a look at these offerings to see how you could liven up your own cabinets and drawers, with a little bit of bling and a lot of creativity.
1. Not a bar of it. Baltimore, USA
2. Golden rules. London, UK
3. Keeping tabs. Wiltshire, UK
4. Legs eleven. Melbourne, Victoria
5. Watch this space. Copenhagen, Denmark
6. A strapping sapling. Melbourne, Victoria
7. Lovely in leather. Washington, USA
8. Contrasting ideas. Adelaide, SA
9. A dark horse. London, UK
10. Belt up. Toronto, Canada
11. Playing with blocks. Singapore
12. DIY delight. San Francisco, USA
13. Channel this. Melbourne, Victoria
14. Down to brass tacks. Toronto, Canada
15. Spit and polish. Ontario, Canada
16. Make your presence felt. Melbourne, Victoria
17. In your cups. Paris, France
18. Corner store. New York, USA
19. Pipe dreams. Sussex, UK
20. Squared away. Copenhagen, Denmark
21. Ikea hacks. Toronto, Canada
22. Convex textures. Dusseldorf, Germany
23. Spot on. Melbourne, Victoria
24. White out. Paris, France
25. Holier than thou. London, UK
26. Shining stars. Boston, USA
27. Provincial charm. Dublin, Ireland
28. The gold standard. Munich, Germany
29. The pink lady. Killarney, Ireland
30. Iron clad. Milan, Italy
31. Barn doors. Hampshire, UK
32. Farmhouse fresh. St Louis, USA
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33. A beautiful blond. Hyogo, Japan
34. Strapping space. Cornwall, UK
35. At great length. Ireland
36. Solid lines. Krasnoyarsk, Russia
37. Gold bars. New York, USA
38. A real steel. Barcelona, Spain
39. Modern country. London, UK
40. On a roll. Charlotte, USA
41. Attention grabber. Canada
42. Crystal clear. Toronto, Canada
43. Pushing buttons. London, UK
44. Compartmentalisation. Phoenix, USA
45. With knobs on. UK
46. Triple threat. New York, USA
47. Coppertone. Essex, UK
48. Brassed off. Ireland
49. Keeping tabs. Houston, USA
50. Get a handle on it. Oxfordshire, UK
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I have D handles on my kitchen cupboards and drawers for two reasons easy for any hand to use and a tea towel can be used as towel holder while cooking. The trend to put metal components extending beyond the body of the handle as seen in #1 is tricky, On a recent trip to a display kitchen with pulls like these in #1, almost disrobed me when i turned too quickly and the end of the pull grabbed my pocket edge then did it best to tear the jeans off me. NOT IMPRESSED
Agreed. If the handle extends past the connectors they catch and rip your pockets. Wrecked my favourite jeans with some.
Totally agree about #1 - apparently in the industry they're known as "belt catchers", yet we found them everywhere when designing our kitchen. In our wardrobe we had similar to #8, but the edges were actually sharp and hurt when brushing past. I think the leather and rope handles look trendy but I can imagine in a kitchen they will get dirty and even gunky rather quickly. I'm with Suancol - I need a handle I can use with a little finger - because sometimes that the only clean finger! Very much like the look of the copper pipe handles at #19, but not very practical.