Getting A Handle On Things
This is not my kitchen. It is the beautiful, covetable kitchen of Katiedid. I love the materials, the colours, the style, the lighting, the open and closed shelving. But most of all I love the handles. Look at them... simple, classic, clean. A perfect fit with the shaker cabinets.
It is amazing what a difference something as simple as a handle makes. But it's the details that make a room work. Katiedid's kitchen is splendid because of the restrained colour palette, the well-thought out lighting, the drama of the carrera marble backsplash, and the clean lines of the layout. Take any one of these things in isolation and you have something nice... put them all together and get something memorable.
I'll be mixing it up a little, using the pulls for the uppers and doors, and these rectangular pulls (a different take on cup pulls) for the pot drawers and utensil drawers. The whole look of the room will be clean-lined and angular.
Like I mentioned before though, sometimes my timing sucks, and I only recently decided I just had to have these handles. That meant a little back and forth with the cabinet manufacturer to see if we could revise our order and cancel the pre-drilling for the knobs. Luck was on our side because our cabinets were the next batch to be processed. So, we'll get the handles we want but we'll have to drill the holes ourselves after the cabinets are installed. For now, I think its a good trade-off... but ask me again when one of us chips the finish drilling into our brand new cabinets :-o
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