Kitchen cabinet knob and handle placement guide.
Door handle placement.
When placing your pulls remember that the 1 to 4 range based on your personal preference from the top or bottom edge of the drawer is the ideal placement.
Design wise the options fall into more traditional and more modern categories though the placement of your hardware won t sway the room s overall appearance on its own.
The classic knob placement centers the knob on the stile and lines the knob stile height with the inside edge of the rail.
The main difference is you ll place them near the top of the door on the stile so you can reach them without bending over too far.
A good rule of thumb is to set the first hole for the handle 2 inches in vertically from the outer edge.
And you ll want them positioned so that there is still some space between the edge of the handle and the edge of the door.
Use the try square to make a light 3 inch long horizontal line perpendicular to the grain inward from the mark.
For 5 piece cabinets like a shaker or any style that isn t one flat slab of wood the traditional placement is to center the knob in the corner of the face frame.
Center the hardware horizontally on the stile between 2 and 4 inches down from the top edge.
The backset is the corresponding vertical mark needed to center the knob.
Or in other words the knob is placed about 2 1 2 from the bottom of upper cabinet doors or 2 1 2 from the top of a bottom cabinet door.