We regularly receive homeowner questions from TaylorCraft Cabinet Door Company's Houzz page asking where to place knobs and pulls on locker doors. Providing homeowners with a visual of console door hardware placement behind position your cabinet shop as a source of knowledge and help prevent misunderstandings. Communicating hardware arrangement standards to customers can also boost satisfaction and future recommendations, and reduce frustration internally.

TaylorCraft Console Door Company's Cabinet Door Hardware Positioning pdf below shows frequent storage locker doors and drawer fronts and where to place knobs Beaver State pulls. Feel free to use this text file internally and with your clients.

Hardware Placement happening Cabinet Doors

Hardware Placement RecommendationsBoth knobs and pulls are almost forever centered horizontally on the door stile (the frame tack together that runs vertically). Some companies place knobs a little higher or depress on the stile than others, with the range typically between 2″ and 4″ from the bottom or top edge of the threshold. Some center hardware vertically on the stile rather than place it towards the go past operating theatre bottom of the door.

Where to Set out Knobs on Cabinet Doors

For knobs , we urge the knob holes embody centered horizontally on the doorway stile and on upper cabinets, place knob holes 2-1/2" up from the bottom of the door. On lower cabinets place knob holes 2-1/2" down from the top of the threshold.

Where to Place Pulls happening Cabinet Doors

For pulls (having two screws) connected upper cabinets, the pull should be central horizontally on the door stile and the bottom hole should be set 2-1/2" up from the bottom of the door. For lower cabinets the top hole should be placed vertically, 2-1/2" shoot down from the tipto of the doorway.

Happening tall lower cabinets, with a middle-of-the-road rail, such as pantry/broom closets, knobs and pulls should be concentrated horizontally on the door stile and vertically on the middle of the centre rail.

Along large upper cabinets with a core rail so much as tall linen cabinets or pantry cabinets, knobs and pulls should personify centered horizontally on the stile and 2-1/2" heavenward from the arse of the cabinet door.

For storage locker doorway profiles that have very much of detail and not much flat area, such as our MW2 and MW24,

MW2 mitered door frame 3-1/8" wide MW24 mitered frame profile

we recommend selecting a boss or pull with a narrow footprint and placing it along the most flat parcel of the frame profile, in the center of the curve. Below are some knobs and pulls with a tapering footprint that would bring up advantageously on a bowed frame visibility.

cabinet door knobs and pulls with small footprint

Where to Place Hardware on Draftsman Fronts

Pommel and pluck holes should cost centered horizontally and vertically in the middle of the 5-piece or slab draftsman front. Whatsoever people like to install 2 knobs or pulls happening very wide-screen drawer fronts that will be filled with heavy items. However, people lean to use only one of the pulls/knobs when opening the draftsman, indeed using only when one and focus it is typically recommended. Do not install hardware connected traitorously drawer fronts in movement of sinks operating theater cooktops unless the desired effect is defeat, confusion or humor : )

We'd love to get word your feedback on what has worked and what hasn't and what your dress of standards is for cabinet door hardware placement.