Picking out hardware for our kitchen turned out to be a bit of a roller coaster ride… I knew I wanted to do gold because it’s very in right now and yet has a very classic feel. With all the white and gray in our kitchen, it really needed some warmth, and I think gold or copper are the perfect ways to do that.
From the beginning I was set on this golde square cup pull. Like, completely obsessed with how it looks in these kitchens… I mean, seriously, does it get more perfectly dramatic than this?
kitchen via: Planete-Deco
So from there, I had to decide what other style I wanted. Typically you have a knob and pull for your cabinets, but not always. In our last kitchen, we put the same style modern pulls on all the doors and drawers for a cohesive feel. In this case, I wanted to emulate a bit of that fabulous DeVol kitchen with some modern-English-traditional. Which means I got to pick out kitchen knobs for the first time ever! (Exciting times here!!)
This image inspired the knobs I wanted. We have similar smaller drawers on top of our cabinets that wouldn’t fit those beautiful square pulls. So, the symmetry of having the two little knobs over the chunky brass pulls felt just right.
via stephani buchman website
After shopping around trying to find my dream square brass cup pulls, I landed on these guys…. They tempted me with a super reasonable price, so I ordered them.
The website also sold these little brass knobs so I threw them in my cart and pressed order…
Then I made this little mockup to visualize them while I waited for my order to arrive. Pretty cute looking, right?? I will say, the color confused me some, but I chalked it up to bad photography.
They were on backorder and took forever to arrive… and then when they finally came, they just didn’t look how I had pictured. Mainly the brass color was so light that it almost appeared silver. Now some people might like that because they are afraid of having too orangey of a brass. But, this just wasn’t cutting it for me. I wanted this definite warmth in the hardware and they were not achieving that.
So I went through the whole return process… which was not easy. And that reminds me why I always prefer to order off Amazon, guaranteed returns people.. They are crucial for home remodeling choices. You are bound to order something you’ll need to take back, so make sure you have the option.
In the meantime, I had to accept that I would not be getting the exact square pulls I had been dreaming of, and expand my search horizon. Learning from my return nightmare mistake, I ordered another set of gold cup pulls from Home Depot.
The original one I had ordered is on the right side. After some help from friends, I decided on the left pull (Soft Industrial 3 in. (76mm) Center-to-Center Bedford Brass Cup Drawer Pull). It still had a square feel to it and seemed dramatic enough. Matching brass finishes can be tough, so I kept it in the same family and chose the Martha Stewart Bedford Brass Round Knob.
And thankfully, I loved these ones, so no returns needed. I think installing the hardware on the cabinets was a real turning point for us. We were in the pits of renovation mode. Seeing a finishing touch like hardware go on really helped us see the light at the end of the tunnel.
We tied in the gold a couple places in our kitchen: the faucet, the hardware, and the pendant lights. I’m looking forward to adding even more accent touches in the decor. But, for now… I’m just enjoying a fully functioning kitchen 🙂
