Fabulous Cabinet Handle Location

You could call this positioning the cabinet makers standard which definitely doesnt mean that it is the way it should be done.

Cabinet handle location. When it comes to cabinet knob placement for drawers under 24 typically knobs are centered and installed perfectly in the middle of the drawer panel. Some companies place knobs a little higher or. It seems to be global to the specific cabinet so even though I can have a top or bottom hinge cabinet door or two banks of double doors the handle locator is off.

The most common locations for knobs and pulls are identified in Figures 2 3 4 and 5. If you are using the pull handles then go for vertical placement. One very common and detail maintaining hardware for the kitchen cabinet is a knob.

These are the basic steps to placing your cabinet knobs correctly. Figure 2 - Knob mounted on base cabinet door Figure 3 - Pull mounted on base cabinet door. Once you buy your most preferable option for knob next thing is to consider the right placement for it to install.

Well except for this rule. Cabinet doors are a little trickier because you are working with the outer framing edges the vertical stiles and horizontal rails of the cabinet door. Or else the higher up along stile placement can backfire in functionality.

Cabinet knobs and pulls are almost always centered horizontally on the door stile vertical door frame piece. A more modern current placement puts the knobs or pulls a little higher on upper cabinets or lower on lower cabinets so that the end of the knob or pull is flush with or slightly past the edge of the horizontal piece of the frame. Use a putty like Loctite Fun-tak to temporarily hold a knob in place.

Here are some suggestions on this matter. For a bit more contemporary of a look you could consider positioning the knob in the center of the drawer horizontally but installing it the upper third of the drawers panel vertically. Line the top edge of the hardware with the bottom.