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Kitchen drawer handles: grooved panels or actual handles?

Civic Steel Homes
8 år siden
sidst ændret:8 år siden

Noosa 2 · Mere information

Routed handles on kitchen drawers that can be difficult to get a grip on when fully loaded.
Handles that give good grip purchase but can get caught on as you walk by.
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  • KK1000
    5 år siden
    You can’t get caught on this handles

    (18) kommentarer

    • PRO
      Leela
      8 år siden

      Routed handles look nice and sleek but there is something about handles that make me smile. Until I smash my knees on them 1000 times and end up looking like a 4 day old peach at the bottom of a primary school kids bag!


    • cag63
      8 år siden
      Think handles keep cupboards cleaner for me
    • kjn_inc
      8 år siden

      No handles definitely looks better. Agree about trying to keep them clean if you don't have handles though. But I find trying to clean around the handles annoying though!

    • LouieT
      8 år siden

      What about the push to open doors, drawers may need either handles or grooves but clean lines are the modern way.

      Personal taste & practicality chooses in the end!

    • Francine
      8 år siden

      Neither! The 'sharknose' as it's known is not not enough to grip especially when a drawer is fully laden with heavy plates etc. The paint often chips from being hit with wedding rings etc also. I do like handles but I like the option we chose for our new kitchen pictured below much more. There is a full panel width gap behind each drawer front to fit your fingers in to get a good grip on the drawer and the contrast of timber behind each black drawer looks pretty good too!

    • stella_bella_boo
      8 år siden

      Just moved into our new build and no handles are simply stunning. I LOVE my new kitchen! Very sleek.

    • PRO
      DDB Design Development & Building
      8 år siden

      No handles is definitely a design driven home owner, Handles date but is definitely a a more comfortable functional decision. DDB Design would always go with great design elements when creating a kitchen as this room says every thing about the home, definitely no handles !!

    • Barbara Dunstan
      8 år siden

      I voted no handles based on the only other scenario of getting caught on handles.

      No fool is going to choose handle if that was going to happen but I would really prefer handles that were safe and agree with cag63 that handles keep draws cleaner.

    • kooky_karen
      8 år siden

      Definitely prefer handles. Have had routed handles and often lost finger nails. They also get rather grubby.

      @LouieT - I have one push to open cupboard (outside of kitchen bench) and am forever cleaning finger prints off it.

    • mwenn
      8 år siden
      All these sleek minimalist kitchens are starting to look more like hotel bars than places you cook every day for the family. Handles definitely for practicality, just as with appliances ON the bench so you can actually cook in your kitchen without dragging it out of the hidden cabinetry or gadgety lifting shelves that will probably break with regular family use. They look like fake kitchens for people who don't really cook. Where is the food and tools for preparation, why does everything have to be hidden? The most hardworking room in the house, the one we all gather around, enjoy the wonderful aromas and yummy food deserves more.
    • Barbara Dunstan
      8 år siden

      @mwenn,

      I sort of do agree with you that hiding everything away till it's needed seems a little fake but when you live in a home as I do at present, with a very tiny kitchen and everything is out because there's nowhere to put it away, consequently, I have a very limited prep area, so in my new kitchen, I can't wait till everything is in a draw or in a cupboard, so that I can enjoy the freedom of having a clear work area.

      That doesn't mean I won't enjoy a cooking day where everything is brought out for it but most everyday cooking in my opinion, doesn't require all the big gun machines to be taking up bench space.

      I'm afraid you might think my new kitchen will be one of these "fake" kitchens but I can assure you it won't be but remember most of the photo's that get shown on Houzz, have been professionally prepared for the photo, with nothing out of place, "minimalist" with a perfect vase of flowers and so on like the photo above!!

    • PRO
      DDB Design Development & Building
      8 år siden
      Sidst ændret: {last_modified_time}8 år siden

      The comment thread is about "Handles or no Handles" for those deciding how to design their kitchen. How one uses the kitchen work space depends on many factors ,lifestyle, stage of life , family , no family, entertaining ,or corporate dinners and of course budget.

      Some beautiful kitchens earn money if registered with location agencies and used for advertising , film and magazine shoots. The kitchen is the heart of the home and can be a great bread winner, no kitchen is fake, clutter or no clutter is very personal and as an interior designer it is the most fascinating room in the house.

    • me me
      7 år siden

      I would go for handles, but get rounded ones - not the ones with sharp overhangs that clothes get caught on

    • Catherine Epping
      5 år siden
      Sidst ændret: {last_modified_time}5 år siden

      If the bench top has some overhang, the same distance as the handles project out, it should prevent you catching on them when walking by. But again it is a different (less streamlined) look. Some handless-drawers are easier to open than others. But I prefer handles for practicality.


      I also think that cupboards without knobs are not visitor friendly. A person has no idea which side to open a cabinet from, left or right. Also where do you hang your tea towels, when needing to dry your hands from the sink?

    • Barbara Dunstan
      5 år siden
      Sidst ændret: {last_modified_time}5 år siden

      @ Catherine Epping,

      My tea towel sits anywhere on an flat surface of the kitchen whilst I'm flitting around doing all manner of stuff but in my case, I use it only to wipe my hands, so really it is not a teal towel but a hand towel. I never dry any dishes prefering to run hot water over them and leaving them to dry naturally given I do not have a dish washer although I have finally ordered one which I'll have before Xmas I hope!!

      Anyway, if I am expecting guests or just a drop in for a cuppa, I put a new hand towel out and leave it neatly folded or draped over the dish rack.

    • PRO
      Spaceworks
      5 år siden

      Routed handles tend to collect food scraps and water, especially around the sink. Just select handles that will not catch you!

    • PRO
      Lisa Elliott Interior Design
      5 år siden

      I generally use handles for ease of opening drawers etc. It's not hard to change them if they date. It's easy to avoid them catching; the bench top just needs to overhang by the same amount as the handle depth. The routed option is a cost saving that builders use to keep the budget down (they don't have to purchase the hardware). Any surface that has been routed and painted & the laminate removed is a surface that can absorb moisture in a kitchen/bathroom & have long term damage (and the exposed edges of laminate chip more easily).

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