This weekend with the help of a friend my husband finally installed our kitchen hardware. I thought for sure this would be one of those jobs that stayed in the box for months but I was proven wrong. Originally Nate and I thought we would wait to hang the hardware. It's an expensive item that wasn't a necessity however after living in the house for a few eeks we realized that it was necessary. Our cabinets and drawers are very large and close together. Getting them opened without the hardware was been very difficult. You have to wedge your fingers into the tiny spaces and try to hook it open. The cabinets about the microwave was the worse and the silverware drawer. My concern was that we would damage them while trying to open them.
So I started looking at hardware options. I knew from my dear friend Kristi that I wanted silver hardware. See Kristi owns her own kitchen and bath design company (lucky me) and has done beautiful work for clients like the previous owners of the Jaguars and several players. My kitchen was small scale to her but she was kind enough to let me pick her brain! When we originally purchased the home I thought because of our dark sink and faucet I would go with black appliances and hardware. Kristi recommended the opposite. To go with stainless appliances and silver hardware. And boy was she right! I love how it has lighten the kitchen up. All the dark stuff would have been too much.
Kristi send me several ideas that she liked from a magazine and I instantly was drawn to this knob.
This image was loosely my inspiration for the pulls. I liked the way the cherry cabinets looked with the stainless appliances and pulls. So, I was ready to order! 10 knobs, 14 6" pulls, & 8 8" pulls...total of almost $400!!!! eek! I waited a few days and searched for coupon codes or alternative sites to help reduce the cost. I had no luck. Kristi, text me one day to check on my final choices and I told her I was still searching for a cheaper price. She them told me I could order from her company and pay direct prices..new grand total $188!!! I ordered them!
Once they arrived we both got very nervous. We were going to have to drill into the cabinets to add the pulls and then the knobs required 2 small holes instead of one. The thought of drilling into the cabinets scared the crap out of of. The typical hardware templates did not match our cabinets or hardware. After several YouTube videos my husband figured out that he was going to need to make his own jig as the template.
Our friend Chris offered to come help. Together they made the jig you can see below and started adding the hardware. It was love at first install! It took several hours and of course some of the existing holes weren't even but the guys figured it out! I was very impressed by my handy man and his skills. He's done such a great job of getting stuff done around here and I'm very proud of him!
Our kitchen is almost semi complete for now. We want to add 3 bar stools to add extra seating and then we will be done for now.
This is what we are on the hunt for in terms of bar stools.
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