Home Remodeling Tips - Cabinet Knobs and Cabinet Pulls

Cabinets hold a crucial place in home décor in almost all homes, as it is the most significant fixture used for storing- be it kitchen, bedrooms or even the living room, we need them more than any other home décor item. Hence, it is very important that you choose a good cabinet knob or pull and invest proper time in it before you go for the final one. Cabinet hardware designs is an ever growing and changing industry of and styles of cabinet knobs, cabinet pulls, appliance pulls, decorative back plates, cup pulls, bin pulls and more according to the latest trends and demand.  The landscape among the cabinet hardware makers is competitive as ever which is great news for interior designs, architects and home owners. Hence, it is very easy to get the ones according to your needs suiting your home décor theme.

Cabinet Pulls

Appliance Pulls

KnobDeco offers a wide range of cabinet hardware for your home. From decorating kitchen or any other room it offers a wide range of knobs and pulls and even other accessories like back plates, cabinet hinges, cup pulls, drop bail pulls, euro bar pulls and ring pulls. They are very small items as compared to the other home décor items but they are very useful in giving a nice classic overall look to your home.

Backplates

Cup Pulls

Equally important when selecting the perfect cabinet hardware for your home and kitchen remodel is the cabinet knobs or cabinet pulls finish.  There are several popular finishes to choose from including satin nickel, stainless steel, oil rubbed bronze, polished brass, copper, antique pewter and matte chrome. 

Knob Deco offers over 40,000 cabinet hardware products across 50 premier brands crossing a wide range of knobs, pulls and back plates.

Use Decorative Cabinet Knobs and Pulls for your Home Improvement

Use decorative cabinet knobs and cabinet pulls for your home improvement. Cabinet knobs and pulls need to be maintained as they are frequently used and hence might need more care than the other items of home décor. From having a back plate to cleaning the knob and pull with water and soap solution regularly; these small precautions go a long way in maintaining your knobs and pulls. As these knobs and pulls are mostly replaceable, you shouldn’t worry about not getting them installed again if need arises, however, taking precaution from the beginning and not letting the knobs and pulls damaged is your best bet for maintaining them.

Cavalier Backplate

Backplate

For instance, you should take care not to pull them very hard and keep them well cleaned. Installing a back plate is a great idea. It gives a good finishing touch with a good support.

Knob Deco carries hundreds of back plates that can be used to add designer touches to your new cabinets or cover old drill holes on a set of cabinets you are refinishing and updating. Mostly everyone has a problem with their door or cabinet knobs and pulls coming off as they don’t have proper support required for the same.

Cabinet Knobs

Cabinet Pulls

Before you go for one, it is necessary to match it to your knob or pull and see if will hold it properly. While for bigger cabinets back plates are a necessity, you can do away with those for smaller cabinets. This is a good investment and it’s definitely required if you want your knobs and pulls for a long time in a good condition. They make them durable and swift and add very good support.

Browse through a variety of cabinet knobs and cabinet pulls before choosing the right one for your cabinet at Knob Deco (http://www.knobdeco.com/).

Urban Living Style Bathroom & Cabinet Hardware

Bath & Cabinet Hardware wit Urban Spaces - Small kitchen or bath spaces also deserve great hardware to compliment them.  Thankfully, the hardware industry has developed great products that support urban designs and functionality requirements.  The designs are often contemporary, supporting minimalist design features and creating clean lines around the kitchen and bath. (Image Source)

Urban Style Design Kitchen

Saving Space in the Kitchen - For limited space kitchens, consider including recess or tab pulls into your cabinet hardware.  Tab pulls are gaining popularity in many urban kitchens. Knob Deco has recently added a great line of tab pulls from Schwinn Hardware.  The 2 inch tab pulls from Schwinn come in great contemporary finishes including satin nickel, polished chrome, or matte chrome.  Schwinn hardware tab pulls have been designed to minimize their visual presence but offer ease when opening and closing drawers and doors.

Schwinn Hardware European Bar Pull

Recessed pulls are another great options for kitchens with limited space.  Recessed pulls are a more mature offering in the cabinet hardware industry and you can find them from many different manufacturers and in dozens of finish types.  To compliment your high end cabinets, incorporate a recessed pull from Sugatsune or Giusti.  Sugatsune offers Japanese design and manufacturing perfection in their cabinet hardware.  Giusti recessed pulls are designed and manufactured by fine Italian standards.  Knob Deco also carries recessed pulls from additional manufacturers including Richelieu Hardware and Linnea Hardware.

Sugatsune Recessed Pull

Giusti Oil Rubbed Bronze

Maximizing Bath Space - If your bathroom has limited space, there are lots of great products to give you functionality you would find in a full bath suite.

Alno Embassy Double Towel Bar

With limited wall space, you might have trouble finding enough wall space for multiple towels to be hung.  Consider a double towel bar that allows two towels to be hung one directly in front of the other.

Recessed Tissue Paper Holder

Recessed Paper Holder

For tight areas around a toilet, order a recessed toilet tissue holder.  These holders will minimize the distance a toilet tissue roll will protrude from the wall. Knob Deco has a large selection of recessed toilet tissue paper holders from Liberty Hardware.  They are available in a wide variety of finishes including white, satin nickel, and chrome.

Knob Deco also carries a wide variety of compact vanity units. The Elements Lindly 26 ½ inch vanity in espresso with granite top and preassembled bowl will offer you great organizing functionality in your tight bathroom.  Our vanities will help you transform your bathroom quickly and efficiently with great style.

Bath Elements Lindly Vanily

Let Knob Deco (http://www.knobdeco.com) help you find hardware solutions for your urban kitchen or bathroom.  Our team of customer service and design specialists will be excited to come up with great solutions for you.

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Gado Gado Features Traditional Hand Cast Brass Hardware

You may get questions from time to time about why there are occasional variations in the shape and finish of Gado Gado Hardware, when some other manufacturers produce such uniform pieces.  The answer is, of course, that all of our hardware is individually hand cast and finished in Indonesia using the same techniques that were taught by the Dutch almost 500 years ago!  We believe that these characteristics are beautiful reminders of the craftsmanship that goes into each and every piece we offer and we want to make sure that your customer feels the same way.

Every piece starts as a carved wooden prototype. For smaller pieces (knobs and pulls), the model is used to create an aluminum mold, which can be used for only a limited number of castings.  Our larger pulls are individually cast by the traditional “lost wax method".

Brass is melted down using a traditional forge before it is hand-poured into the mold.  Most of the metal is obtained from demolished colonial buildings and old ships, as well as brass recycled from previous projects.

After the pour, there is still much work to be done: every piece must receive a finish, and  every piece must have any rough edges filed down and smoothed before it is ready for finishing.  

This is also when detailed etching takes place on the more intricate pieces, and an overall quality check is performed.

Hardened sand templates of Gado Gado minaret pulls made from an original carved mahogany template being carefully placed in casting sand prior to the casting (pouring of the molten brass).

A whole wall full of Gado Gado Hardware molds, hanging up and waiting to be used.

Creating the silica sand core for a large hourglass pull, to allow the center of the piece to be hollow.  The molten brass will replace the wax between the external sand mold and the internal core shown here.

In order to make our signature living antique brass finish, each piece is dipped in 5 different solutions.  Once the piece has dried, it will be hand-polished, packed, and shipped to the USA, before it finally finds its way to your customer's door.

Gado Gado’s Hand Cast Manufacturing Process - Knob Deco is excited to now offer Gado Gado cabinet hardware on our site.  Gado Gado is a premium, hand-made cabinet hardware manufacturer focusing on antique brass traditional and Asian styling pieces.  All of their cabinet hardware pieces are hand-made in Indonesia following a process that has been used for over 500 years!  If you want to incorporate fine, hand-made cabinet hardware into your home, you should be considering Gado Gado.

Design - Gado Gado offers a unique combination of traditional European and Asian-influenced hardware designs.  The process starts with a wooden model hand-carved in their Javanese workshop from plantation-grown mahogany.  Many of their unique surface bolts and pulls require several individual carved pieces and castings.

Molding and Casting - The carved wooden models are used to create aluminum molds, which are carefully placed in silica casting sand prior to casting.  Gado Gado’s larger and custom-designed pieces are individually cast using the lost wax method.

Once the mold has been created, brass is melted using a forge and hand poured into the mold.  The brass used in Gado Gado cabinet pulls and knobs comes from old ships, demolished colonial buildings and recycled brass from previous projects.  Even the materials within your cabinet hardware will have a story!

GADO GADO Ring Pull With Round Backplate

Finishing - Once the brass has settled and cooled, each piece goes through a hand-finishing process.  The pieces are sanded to remove any rough edges and to create a consistent and smooth touch.  For some of the finely carved pieces, additional etching is done after sanding to bring out the intricacy of the carved designs.

Finally, the Gado Gado cabinet and architectural hardware pieces are dipped into five different solutions to create their signature antique unlacquered brass finish.  After drying, each piece is individually polished and packaged for shipping to Gado Gado’s warehouse in Sebastopol, California.

GADO GADO Latch Lock With Chain

Ordering & Shipment - The great thing about Gado Gado is that they stock nearly all of their popular cabinet hardware pieces in their traditional antique brass finish. You can receive this fine, handcrafted cabinet hardware in about the same time other mass produced pieces. Gado Gado also features a dozen other finish types for custom production projects by special order, and have the ability to create custom designed pieces to match your unique vision.

Order Gado Gado Hardware through our website http://www.knobdeco.com or customer service team today.

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Most Popular Contemporary Cabinet Hardware Finishes

We have seen increased interest in contemporary cabinet hardware over the past year from our designers and customers. If looking to incorporate a modern or contemporary set of cabinet pulls and knobs into your home, you should consider Knob Deco’s complete set of contemporary finish offerings.

HAFELE

Stainless Steel - Historically, contemporary cabinet hardware has been most often associated with a stainless steel finish.  Stainless steel continues to be the most popular contemporary finish available.  When a brand is looking to push into the contemporary space, they typically start with stainless steel.  Stainless steel cabinet hardware has several advantages and benefits including long useful life in any climate, study construction and feel, and minimal finger prints.  

You’ll find a wide variety of stainless steel products from Knob Deco.  Check some of the great brands we carry that have a wide variety of stainless steel products including Schwinn, Hafele, Siro Designs, Linnea, Sugatsune and more!

LINNEA

SCHWINN Chrome - If you want to brighten up your kitchen consider chrome cabinet hardware.  Shoppers looking for chrome cabinet pulls and knobs have increased dramatically over the past two years.  This finish is versatile.  You can put it on your new kitchen cabinets hardware, or update your kitchen cabinets hardware from ½ century ago.

CHROME CABINET

Polished Chrome - Polished chrome might be the new “it” cabinet hardware finish.  On our trip to KBIS 2013 in New Orleans, several brands talked to us about their new or upcoming polished chrome product offerings.  There is a lot of buzz around this finish type right now.  If you want to be an early adopter of polished chrome cabinet hardware, consider offerings from Top Knobs, Hafele, Classic Brass, or Jeffrey Alexander.

TOP KNOBS

JEFFREY ALEXANDER

Rose Gold - Rose gold has been an extremely popular finish in jewelry and watches over the past two years and is now working its way into cabinet hardware.  With its blend of colors, rose gold cabinet knobs and pulls will offer you a unique finish that has the opportunity to compliment many different color patterns throughout your home.  Find rose gold finish from Hickory Hardware on www.knobdeco.com.

Carbon - Carbon cabinet pulls and knobs have a very masculine feel to them.  The darkness on each piece will often vary depending on the light angle.  With all of the engineering advancements made through carbon technology, nothing says contemporary like carbon. They look a lot like stainless steel, but with even more story!

Satin Nickel Cabinet knobs - Probably the softest of the contemporary finishes, chose satin nickel cabinet knobs and pulls if you are looking for a safe contemporary finish.  Satin nickel can be incorporated into so many design styles it is difficult to go wrong with.  You can find satin nickel cabinet knobs offerings from nearly all of Knob Deco’s brands.

Light Aqua - With limited availability today, light aqua cabinet hardware is just emerging has a new contemporary offering.  When matched with black or white, this finish has a retro modern feel to it.  Sietto is a leader in the light aqua space and will be coming out with a few new hand made glass decorative knobs and pulls in light aqua with great dimension to them soon..

SIETTO

Find the most popular contemporary cabinet hardware finishes and satin nickel cabinet knobs from KnobDeco.com

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