Kitchen Hardware

 I started installing kitchen cabinet knobs this week. There are 31 and over 2 afternoons I put in 30 of them. We took one of the cabinet doors off to try to straighten the curvature in it by laying heavy boxes on top so that knob will have to wait. I bought a couple templates made by Amerock to ensure the knobs all lined up. The hardest part was getting some of the cabinet doors level with its neighbor. It took about 90 minutes to get those first 2 knobs installed in the main sink base because of this. Otherwise, it took about 5 minutes per knob, including marking the spot to drill and clamping a piece of wood to the backside of each door to keep from splitting the wood.

                                        

Upper cabinet knobs.

Knobs on the green cabinets.

Today I managed to install 2 drawer pulls, but we had to shorten the long screws that came with the pulls. First Hal tried grinding them shorter so that more threads would engage with each handle, but it messed with the threads too much. Finally, I decided I'd just have him cut off the end at the cutting mark though it barely leaves an eighth of an inch to hold the pull. If the pulls/handles don't hold, I've got extra screws and I'll buy washers to make them shorter or buy shorter screws.

I've got 21 of these to install. And a 22nd once my kitchen designer orders the one we forgot for the trash bin. I hope to install 4 more tomorrow.