Tag Archive 'Cabinet Hardware'

Jan 09 2010

Cabinet Hardware – What’s So Hard About Working With It?

Published by L.A. Remodeler under Cabinets

Remodeling kitchens often involves upgrading kitchen cabinets. Don’t overlook an important, although small, feature that will really give your new kitchen cabinets a finished look – the hardware.

Cabinet door hardware is a necessary item when installing kitchen cabinets, but more than being just necessary, it can also be very decorative. And after all, as long as it is being done anyway, shouldn’t it look as nice as it possibly can?

There are several types of cabinet hardware available. Hinges, door pulls, door knobs, and drawer pulls are the items that can be readily seen and can add that decorative touch when installed.

Keeping in mind your overall theme for the room, you have many choices in color and design of cabinet door hardware. Black, gold, silver and pewter are common colors for cabinet hardware although many other colors like blue and white are available for more colorful choices. Designs are even more varied, from plain and unobtrusive to ornamental and showy. With some careful consideration, you can choose hardware including hinges, pulls or knobs for both doors and drawers that will match each other and be complementary to your kitchen cabinets.

Let’s start with hinges. The hinges on your cabinet doors can be invisible if you wish, or seen in part by using half surface hinges. The type of hinge you choose may depend in large part on the type of cabinet doors that are being installed. For wood doors, the choices of hinge are many. Strap hinges, dummy hinges, butterfly and colonial hinges are just a few options that will make your search interesting.

Door pulls and drawer pulls bring a bit more of your creativity into the selection. Do you have a theme in your kitchen? Or do you have a passion for a particular item or design? Door pulls and drawer pulls are one area where you can bring a truly personalized look to your kitchen cabinet hardware. For a rustic cabin look, choose pulls that look like twigs or evergreen trees; or maybe you’d like to bring moose, wolves, or bears into the kitchen for a touch of wildlife décor. Celtic, shaker, and California styles add different looks that can accent the style throughout your room. Maybe you wish to stay in a kitchen minded theme, and want to add door pulls and drawer pulls resembling silverware or teapots.

Door knobs are the truly fun part of choosing new cabinet hardware for your home. With designs and patterns that will truly exhibit your personality and tastes, door knobs are extremely visible and of high use on your kitchen cabinets. Coordinating with your overall theme in the kitchen, your possibilities are seemingly endless, with countless choices of food, animals, objects, shapes, and designs at your disposal. Simply choose your style, and have fun!!

Decorating with cabinet hardware is not limited to your kitchen. Every room in your home has some type of cabinet, and every room may have a theme or design that you can carry through to display on the cabinets. Use cabinet hardware to add a finished look to the cabinets in every room of your home.

Author Jennifer Akre is an owner of a wide variety of online specialty shops like http://www.eknobsandpulls.com/ that offer both items and information on how you can easily furnish and decorate your space. Whether it’s your living, bedroom, or even your deck or patio, there are many tips you can use to make those spots both functional and beautiful. Today, she offers advice on how to create a fabulous living area by using charming cabinet hardware to define your cabinets.

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Oct 13 2009

Cabinet Hardware – There Are Many Decorative Options to Choose From

Published by L.A. Remodeler under Cabinets

For some reason, people think that cabinet hardware is simple around for the practical purpose of letting us use our cabinetry. Sure, we couldn’t open and close anything in our kitchen or bathrooms without it, but in addition to providing that valuable function, it also has a spectacular look to it as well.

Really, when it comes to cabinet hardware there are a lot of eye-catching options to choose from, which is the result of the many materials it can be crafted from along with all the finishes that it can have. For example, you can get hardware that is crafted out of any number of stunning metals like brass, bronze, stainless steel, regular steel, aluminum and even wrought iron. These metals can then be finished in different ways including being brushed, burnished, oil rubbed, polished, dulled, and even have a matte black finished applied to them. Along with the metal materials, there are others as well like wood, plastic, porcelain, glass, and even ceramic while additional finishing options include being stained or infused with different colors along with having designs painted on them.

With all the material and finishing choices comes cabinet hardware of all types and styles, so, you can effortlessly find something to match the current style of your cabinets and your space. Like, there are those of the modern variety, others that have more of an antique feel, some that are on the contemporary side, and even those traditional options are still around that everyone has grown to love. You can even get exotic, art deco options that are very interesting to look at as well.

Now, if you see the value in purchasing new, attractive cabinet hardware for your cabinetry, one thing to keep in mind when doing so is to get everything new. Like, you don’t want to buy new knobs only to have the old hinges sitting on your cabinets. The two will clash and will send messages to everyone who sees it that you don’t know how to decorate. So, make sure that you get all new hardware, including the knobs and hinges along with drawer handles, drawer slides, and cabinet catches if you don’t have self-closing cabinets.

If you want to easily find just the right cabinet hardware for your cabinetry, the thing to do is hit the internet for some shopping. That’s right, going online and browsing through the different stores is breeze, what’s even better is that when you do come across something that you like, it generally is at the best prices around. And, you don’t even have to leave your home to do it because your purchase will be shipped right to your home.

In the end, if you are one of those people that think cabinet hardware just around to serve a practical purpose, think again. There are now many eye-catching options to choose from, perfect for really adding a lovely decorative touch to your cabinetry.

Author Jennifer Akre is the owner of a wide variety of online specialty stores that provide consumers with both information and products perfect for either their indoor or outdoor space. Today, she offers valuable advice to consumers when purchasing luxurious cabinet hardware, stunning knobs, and awesome drawer pulls.

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