![]() ![]() ![]() At only $9.98 for a drawer template, a door template and drill bit I figured it was worth a try. I found this cabinet hardware template fairly helpful and easier than worrying about trying to create some sort of homemade template. It is extremely easy to get in a groove and drill a hole in the wrong place. More importantly, be very conscious to check your plan before you drill each and every cabinet door and drawer. Write down your plan and notate which cabinets will get what handles. ![]() And we only used a few of the 160mm handles on the cabinet drawers that measured greater than 24″ on the inside panel. 128mm handles work great for most of your medium to large cabinets. 96mm handles work best for your smallest overhead cabinets and smaller drawers that measured 7-12 inches on the inside panel of the shaker drawers. With such a large variations in size for both doors and cabinets, we chose to utilize three different size handles (. In our kitchen and butler’s pantry we have several different size cabinets doors as well as several different size cabinet drawers. The great thing is that cabinet handles come in some common sizes, so if we ever get tired of gold, we can swap them out to almost any color with minimal effort (and even get the exact acrylic handles, but in oil rubbed bronze or polished chrome!) In the end we ended up going with the awesome acrylic and gold cabinet pulls at the bottom of the photo below. This allowed us to hold each handle up to our cabinets and see how they looked in real-life. We found three that we liked and purchased one of each. We wanted to go with a two-hole cabinet pull and were looking at a few modern gold options. Your first step is to pick out and plan your handle style, size(s) and placement. In this article I’m going to walk you through all the tips, tricks and tools I used when installing my cabinet hardware and even what to do if you do drill a hole in the wrong place. Cabinets are not cheap, so it’s pretty scary to think about possibly putting a hole in the wrong place and believe it or not…it’s fairly easy to do! Installing cabinet hardware can be pretty intimidating. ![]()
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