Send a Houzz Gift Card! Appears in. Latest From Houzz. See also. Kitchen Design. Barbra Bright April 10, Houzz Contributor. San Francisco-based designer. Save Comment 77 Like Remodeling a kitchen can be a daunting undertaking.
Lower Cabinetry: Drawers Option 1: Centered. The most popular placement is to center the hardware in the middle of each drawer front. Aesthetically pleasing and symmetrical, the main drawback to this placement is that the bottom drawer can be difficult to reach since the hardware is low. The first photo shows a five-piece drawer front, also known as a decorative drawer front, which echoes the door style. A five-piece drawer front consists of a center panel surrounded by a frame. The vertical portion of the frame is called the stile and the horizontal, the rail.
Stiles and rails can be of varying widths depending on the door and drawer style you select. Find a kitchen designer in the Houzz pro directory. The gray island in this photo also shows center placement of the hardware in each drawer front. The difference is that the top drawer front is a slab, or flat, style , whereas the lower drawers are decorative. Shop for cabinet and drawer pulls in the Houzz Shop. Option 2: Centered on top. In this option, the hardware is centered in the middle of the top drawer only.
For all the lower drawers, it is placed on the top rail. Some find this placement visually unbalanced, while others appreciate its blend of form and function. Placing the hardware on the rail instead of centering it in the middle of the drawer front makes it easier to open the lower drawers — especially for the taller members of the household. Find a contractor in the Houzz pro directory. Option 3: All on top. This is my preferred configuration for its symmetry and functionality.
The hardware is placed on each rail if the drawer fronts are five-piece. For a mix of slab and five-piece drawer fronts, as in this photo, the hardware is placed on the top quarter of the slab drawers to mimic their placement on the rails of the decorative fronts. Option 4: Top one-third. What if the drawers are all slab? In this photo, the hardware is placed in the top third of each drawer. But because the fronts are slab, there is the added flexibility to place the hardware in the top one quarter, or even to center it.
The choice depends on your own aesthetic. Option 5: Two-pull placement. Is there a secret to placing two pulls on a drawer? For example, if your drawers are 36 inches wide, half of 36 is 18, half of 18 is 9.
Therefore, each pull is centered 9 inches from the left and right edge of the drawer front. Option 6: No hardware. I love the clean, seamless look of cabinetry without hardware. Most cabinetry sans hardware uses a magnetic touch latch system to open and close the doors and drawers.
Press on the cabinet or drawer and a spring-loaded plunger opens it. That's why it's so important to create lines, either vertically or horizontally, to keep yourself in check when installing fixtures. A laser level is the best way to create a long, perfect, unwavering line across a row of drawers or cabinets. You can even set change the laser level to its plumb function to set a vertical line, for a stack of cabinets.
A chalk snap line works just as well. You can install a fixture at each end of the run, then use those fixtures as supports to hold the snap line in place. Snap the line, then remove. A square of painter's tape in the spot you intend to drill prevents your drill from walking and creating unsightly grooves on the finish. However, it does not really do much to prevent the chipping-out of wood on the backend of your drill spot.
Careful, slow drilling can help to reduce the likelihood of this problem. Some cabinet hardware is attached by means of a single screw or bolt. This is by far the easiest type of hardware to attach, not because you cut your drilling work in half, but because it makes it easier to position. If you have two types of handles to choose from and you have a lot of hardware to install, the work will go much faster if you choose the single-screw type.
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