Kitchen Drawer Handles Placement

The right kitchen cabinet hardware can complement and accentuate the lines colors and textures of your space.

Kitchen drawer handles placement.

Longer lengths for longer drawers. When drawers are 24 wide or wider we often like to double up on knobs or pulls. So you ve finally decided on hardware for your kitchen or bathroom cabinets and drawers if not check out our favorite handles and knobs and you re really to install it. To place this hardware correctly divide the drawer into thirds and place the hardware in the left and right portions of the drawer.

This can offer a cleaner more contemporary appearance and it also is easier to operate your drawers with. With multiple drawers stacked on top of each other choosing this placement makes each knob a little lower and harder to reach. Using a pull that is approximately 1 3 the length of the drawer is a good rule of thumb. It usually looks better and it s easier to open a deep drawer when the handle is toward the top.

But you may want to place the pulls closer to the top. Knobs pulls and other handles are like jewelry for cabinets. The placement and positioning of cabinet hardware also makes a kitchen more functional. The alternative to centering your hardware is to place it on the upper frame piece or on a slab drawer in the upper quarter of the drawer.

Rather than using two pulls on wide drawers you can use a single pull that is longer in length. If you put it in the exact center of the drawer front it may actually look a little lower than the center.