All you need to do to outfit your cabinets with a kitchen cabinet pull kit is visit your local home improvement store. The aisle of stock kitchen cabinet pulls gives you plenty of options, in many styles and materials. Chances are, you can stop by the store once and pick up a couple dozen pieces of hardware you need in whatever style you like. If you want, you can decide to do this project in the morning and finish it after lunch.
However, if you want to take this project and turn it into something artsy, creative, or exotic, you have a plethora of sources to draw from. There is a wide selection of kitchen cabinet pulls on the internet that you probably won’t see anywhere in your neighborhood.
If you want to stay on the traditional side of artistic kitchen accessories, you might want to look at cast metal kitchen cabinet pulls. Yes, metal pulls are available in plentiful choices 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 would like to bring into your kitchen, you could purchase a set of bronze macaws, dyed 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 showcase 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 (either black or a coordinating 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 moves 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 artisan artists.
A line of glass kitchen cabinets mirrors the swirling sheets of colored glass used by stained glass artists. A single bar-shaped tug shows stripes of bright blue, neon yellow, or bright green. Similar kitchen cabinet pulls have simple black-and-white glass bottoms, but are peppered with glass “confetti” in contrasting colors.
If you’re a fan of Venetian glass, you’ll recognize the playful patterns 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 encrusted with millefiori 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 utilizes satin paint finishes, Swarovski crystals, and stacked cubes, discs, and cones. They are sweet? Are they flowers from another planet? Are they stolen treasures from a sheikh’s private treasury?
Do you admire the stained glass windows? 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 fused and dicryotic glass treatments make bold artistic statements in just 1 ½ inches.
Avoid the mundane. Consider the exotic.