Pantry Door Handle Placement

You ll specifically want to place them anywhere between 1 and 4 from the top or bottom edge of the door.

Pantry door handle placement.

For a more classic look consider offsetting your knobs from the rail a bit. The typical height to place knobs is 2 5 3 from the bottom of the door on upper cabinets or from the top of the door on lower cabinets. For example if your drawers are 36 inches wide half of 36 is 18 half of 18 is 9. Divide the drawer in half and center a pull in each half and it will be perfectly balanced.

If you are using elongated knobs such as egg knobs or t knobs place the installation hole so that the top of your knob is in line with the rail. Knobs should be centered horizontally on the door stile on the side opposite the hinge this goes for both upper and lower cabinetry. Therefore each pull is centered 9 inches from the left and right edge of the drawer front. My cabinet maker recommended that we put the door knob at the same height as regular indoor doors 36 as that is what would feel natural.

You can cut circles out of painters tape to test placement. I ll admit it doesn t look as clean as beekeeperswive s gorgeous cabinets but we do generally use the pulls to open the door. When it comes to installing cabinet door handles either knobs or pulls they are always placed on the opposite side from the door hinges. We used the 2 5 measurement on all of our cabinets.