Choose a darker color for your lower cabinets to ground the design then experiment with lighter shades like whites and grays on the upper.
Mixing handle color on pantry door.
One preference is to use knobs for all doors and pulls for all drawers.
The most functional cabinet hardware mix is knobs on doors and pulls or handles on drawers.
Another rule we made up was to give every cabinet door in our kitchen a square glass knob with the same black finish on the backing.
Designating one color tone for your upper cabinets and another for your lowers is a way to inject color into your kitchen and maintain an organized design.
Maybe using multiple door styles from the same family is the answer this idea of using multiple door styles works extremely well when doing a large project with multiple rooms.
Choose a different color for your uppers and lowers.
Find a knob or pull you love then match it with the coordinating knob or pull.
Symmetry is another way to visually simplify a space even if you are mixing finishes around a room.
Has round knobs for swinging doors bin pulls for pullout drawers a small handle for a flip up door over the drink station and large handles for the paneled fridge.
This allows the whole hand to grab instead of only your fingertips.
The easiest way to get started is to mix and match knobs with pulls.
For example this kitchen by venegas and co.
For any large door such as a pantry and any pull out door including pull out base pantries or trash pull outs use a pull.
No single one of these hardware options would be the ideal ergonomic choice for every application so mixing them just makes practical.
The basics of mixing cabinet hardware.
It is much more comfortable to open a drawer using a pull.
Mix in the chelsea door to add a modern twist on a raised panel.
See below for where to use each.
Keep it simple with clean lines by using carson as the dominate door style.