Kitchen cabinets can greatly enhance the look of your kitchen and add to the overall decor of your house. These cabinets will also help you optimise space utilisation and ensure that everything is in perfect order, whether it is the appliances, utensils or the crockery. However, it is very important to choose the cabinet hardware properly as well. Whether it is the knobs, drawer pulls or the shelves, it is important to make the right choice. Otherwise, you will end up spending more money and get something that doesn't last either. Here are some tips that will greatly help you in choosing the right kind of cabinet hardware.
Form and function
Both form and function are important to the hardware for cabinets and hence the selection is as much personal choice as it is about style. You can always go for wood with antique or darker look. This appears rich and far more soothing. Metallic and ornate door knobs, cabinet handles and drawer pulls can be chosen as well. Other materials used for cabinet hardware include glass, ceramic and sometimes marble too. You can go for distinct look involving oil rubbed bronze, chrome, nickel and pewter. It purely depends on whether you want them to look antique or whether you prefer them to keep shining.
Replacements
When you are going for refinishing or remodelling of kitchen cabinetsit is always a good idea to replace knobs with knobs, drawer pulls with pulls, etc. Like to like will always allow you to reuse the earlier holes and this will reduce the work involved. When you are purchasing the hardware, you will have to look at the size as well, as there are many variations. The screw size is important too. For example when the doors and drawers of your cabinets are either thick or thin, you will have to compensate with bigger or shorter screws. It isn't a bad idea to try one kind of knob or drawer pull for some time to find out if it is any good. Only when you are satisfied should you go for the complete replacement.
Colour and finish
The finish of the hardware has to be matched with the base material. Whether it is drawer slides, pulls, latches, catches, knobs or hinges, it is advisable to avoid shiny metal, when the cabinets have grained wooden texture. Similarly you can go for ceramic and copper fittings for kitchen cabinets which have a French country and farmhouse kind of look about them. Highly glossy fittings are good for sophisticated modern cabinetry. Ideally you should look for contrasting colours. This means that dark hardware is good with lighter finish and the contrary is equally true as well when you select hardware.
