The kitchen base cabinets are being installed and they still don’t have handles, knobs, or bin pulls. It’s not that I don’t have them; rather, I don’t have ones that look right. Let me explain …

First, I need 36 “handles” for the base cabinets and my preference is for classic bin pulls.

I’ve shopped the two “big box” home improvement stores and found nothing and I live in an area that does not have many options so I went to the web. I found a few choices for the base cabinet bin pulls but was not ready to shell out a few hundred dollars for the ones that looked right. I found two options that looked equally nice and were close-out sales so, I figured for the price, I could afford to buy enough of both. So I did. They arrived. And well …

The simpler ones were darker than I expected and more plain that I really wanted. The nicer ones had a redder tone to the copper finish than I expected and it clashed with the yellow tone of the bamboo.

So, I’m not really happy with either. The quality of each design is very good and they are heavy and solid brass / copper – not the cheap zinc knock offs. Given my total for the two lots was comfortably under a hundred dollars, I’m not unhappy to have these in my “spare resource” collection. Still, it leaves me with cabinets and no handles.

I’ve ordered my “first choice” bin pulls at their very reasonable but not cheap rate and they should arrive in a week. I hope I’m happy with them or else this will start getting expense … perhaps I should go into building custom cabinets ….