Architects and interior designers have been coming up with numerous variations of cabinets and their designs are equally matched by different designs in cabinet hardware that complemented their aesthetic presentation to be more attractive to the end-users and other building stakeholders.

These designs come in different variations where you could choose from such as a simple big-box manufactured framed cabinet with panel doors to a well crafted cabinet made intricately by men trained in such craftsmanship. Cabinet hardware is designed to be used for two objectives; for decoration and second for functionality.

Cabinet hardware designed for decoration also serve as opening and closing medium for drawers and cabinets aside from its primary purpose of giving decorative value to the cabinet as they are mounted in front of drawers and cabinets and they give an astounding view of the cabinets and drawers that enhances their beauty and attractiveness. There are several types of decorative cabinet hardware such as handle pulls, cup pulls, knobs, back plates, ring, bail and pendant pulls.

The handle pulls as well as the cup pulls are big and are fastened with two screws at both sides and they are solid and sturdy while the bail pulls are put in place with the use of mounting screw and are also solid. Knobs, rings and pendent pulls are all mounted using only one screw while some ring and pendent are designed to be mounted with two mounting screws.

In the installation of cabinet hardware, like the cup pull is installed differently from the others since the measurement is center to center and this procedure of measurement is taken starting from the center of one hole going to the center of the other hole before the cup pull is fitted utilizing this approach of measurement. If you are planning to replace an old cup pull, be sure to check the item that it is exactly of the same size of the old one you are replacing or else you have to refinish the entire cabinet that you are replacing with the cup pull.

In this type of measurement using center to center measurement, there are several abbreviations to identify the use of center to center measurement procedures and the most common terms or abbreviations are the C-C,C/C or CTC and ordinarily they use 3″, 31/2″, 96mm and 4″. There are others but are seldom used. There are some architects that prefer using these popular abbreviations and measurements while other designers opt to use the non-regular and seldom used abbreviations and measurements for identification purposes of their individual designs of being different.

The designs of cabinet hardware come in many different shapes, sizes, and colors like oil rubbed bronze cabinet hardware, satin nickel cabinet hardware, mate black cabinet hardware, bronze cabinet hardware, weathered nickel Swedish iron cabinet hardware, black antique cabinet hardware, antique cooper cabinet hardware antique brass cabinet hardware and other different finishes which you can hardly choose from because of their individual appealing design and beauty.
The other type of cabinet hardware as to its purpose is the functional hardware which is primarily designed for its function and not for decoration. It is entirely simple and helps you out to reach to the items inside your drawers or cabinets and they are classified as door hinges and drawer hinges which connect the cover of your door and drawer to the enclosed area.

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