All you need to do to outfit your cabinets with a set of kitchen cabinet pulls is visit your local home improvement store. Aisle containing stock kitchen cabinet pulls gives you many options, in many styles and materials. Chances are you can stop by the store once and buy a couple dozen pieces of hardware you need in a style you like. If you like, you can decide to do this project in the morning and finish it after lunch.
However, if you want to take on this project and turn it into something artistic, creative, or exotic, you have a plethora of fonts to take advantage of. There is a wide selection of kitchen cabinet pulls online that you probably won’t see anywhere in your neighborhood.
If you want to stay on the traditional side of artistic kitchen accessories, you may want to look at cast metal kitchen cabinet pulls. Yes, metal pulls are available in abundant options from the most popular manufacturers, but when you dig deeper, you can find beautiful and unique tiny sculptures for kitchen cabinet pulls. For example, if you have a tropical décor that you’d like to bring into your kitchen, you can purchase a set of bronze macaws, tinted in realistic colors, to perch on the front of your cabinet doors. If you have a favorite flower, you can select Art Nouveau-inspired cast metal kitchen cabinet pulls that feature roses, poppies, or my personal favorite, lilies. Or if you love the balanced geometry of the Craftsman design, you can find brass and enamel kitchen cabinet pulls (in either black or a coordinated color palette) that take inspiration from these classic designs.
Many craft artists are drawn to glass as a medium. Glass can be molded and coaxed into fancy shapes – and colors! If celebrating color and showcasing color excites you, glass gives you as many options as you can imagine. It’s no wonder there are so many glass kitchen cabinet pulls available from craft artists.
A line of glass kitchen cabinets mirrors the swirling colored sheets of glass used by stained glass artists. A single bar-shaped pull shows streaks of bright blue, neon yellow, or bright green. Similar kitchen cabinet pulls have simple black and white glass backgrounds, but are sprinkled with glass “confetti” in contrasting colors.
If you’re a fan of Venetian glass, you’ll recognize the playful designs on a set of millefiori kitchen cabinet pulls. Millefiori, meaning “thousand flowers” in Italian, is a glass design created by fusing wire-thin glass rods into clusters, then collecting these clusters and fusing them into larger glass blocks. When the glass is cut, the clusters of tiny glass rods resemble flowers. Simple metal pulls embedded with millefiori beads and other blown glass beads turn the functional into a work of art.
Some artisan artists find inspiration in exotic fabrics, rich jewelry, and combinations of shapes. A beautiful collection of kitchen cabinet pulls uses satin paint finishes, Swarovski crystals, and stacked cubes, discs, and cones. They are sweet? Are they flowers from another planet? Are they treasures stolen from a sheikh’s private treasury?
Do you admire stained glass? You don’t need to add one to your house to enjoy them in your home. You can buy small kitchen cabinet knobs that resemble small church windows, assembled like a miniature glass puzzle. Brilliant colors, subtle metallics, and dichryotic and fused glass treatments make bold artistic statements in just 1 ½ inches.
Avoid the mundane. Consider the exotic.