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Kitchen Cabinet Hardware
Kitchen cabinets are a showpiece of style and
elegance in your kitchen and the kitchen cabinet hardware further add
pizzazz to the complete ambience. Cabinet handles, doorknobs, hinges,
shelving units and such items are known as kitchen cabinet hardware. There
are varieties of styles of cabinet hardware available to suit the
traditional, contemporary, formal or a casual look of your kitchen cabinets.
What is worst than a beautiful kitchen cabinet – the envy of every person –
that does not function well due to the rusty rails it refuses to slide on?
Your selection of kitchen cabinet hardware requires the same time and
attention you gave to the selection of the cabinets.
If you have got a re-facing job done or got your kitchen cabinets repainted,
you need to take a look at your cabinet hardware as well. Over years of use,
the kitchen cabinet hardware may have lost its shine and started to look
shabby on the refurbished cabinets. This is the time to change the hardware
and return your kitchen cabinets to their prideful place.
Buying Kitchen Cabinet Hardware – How to go about it
The best way to start is to surf the websites of businesses that deal in
kitchen cabinet hardware. You can view these unique decorative hardware in
their thousands, in traditional, modern, rustic and many other styles.
Brass, bronze, crystal, steel, stainless steel, and porcelain – you just
name it – and you will find the cabinet handles, doorknobs, hinges and
shelving units in various finishes.
The variety and styles are mind-boggling. You can browse through more than
50,000 combinations of a variety of hardware in various shapes, sizes,
styles, materials and finishes at www.homedecorhardware.com. They stock a
variety of kitchen cabinet hardware from well-known manufactures, such as,
Amerock, Ashley Norton, Baldwin, Classic Brass, Colonial Bronze, Emtek,
Forges, Ginger USA, Metakor, Period Brass, Top Knobs USA, Valli&Valli and
Waterwood, among others.
TheHardwareHut.com features a selection of cabinet hinges, cabinet knobs,
cabinet pulls and drawer slides and many more in “modern/contemporary,
traditional, reproduction and restoration hardware, mission/stickley, french
provencial” styles. All these fixtures are available in varying costs to
suit your needs and pockets, but to really impress with high quality kitchen
cabinet hardware; you need to spend much more.
www.usacabinethardware.com also stocks high quality hardware – both
decorative and functional - from leading hardware manufacturers, such as,
Amerock, Belwith Keeler, Berenson and Liberty Hardware.
Prices of hardware depends on the styles, material and finish used. A wire
pull in nickel costs around $3.40 and a solid brass pull, in traditional
polished brass,would cost $9.00. A solid brass knob is priced at $5.00 and
the prices of hollow brass knob vary from $1.60 yo $2.00, depending on size
and finish. Prices will definitely vary from website to website with some
charging transpotation as an extra. www.btisupply.com displays a range of
self-closing slides in 2" size increments; 10" slide priced at $1.89 and the
28" slide at $4.47. Their die-cast brass cam locks vary from $1.58 to $2.04.
www.horton-brasses.com too displays a variety of kitchen cabinet hardware,
such as, Victorian knobs, drop pulls, latches, stirrup pulls and solid brass
cabinet knobs. Similar to the Victorian era knobs, these knobs are made of
wood, painted black, with brass faces and come with a price range of $1.90
to $2.50. Drop pulls are priced at $5.25. Their latches are authentic copies
of early cabinet hardware, priced between $7.25 to $12.00. A stylish way of
pulling open a cabinet door, the cast stirrup pulls come with a minimum
price of $7.00.
Select the hardware that goes well with the overall appearance of your
kitchen cabinets. Whatever style of kitchen cabinet hardware you select, it
is sure to enhance the look of your kitchen.
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