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Box Locks
Cabinet hardware can be tricky. I'll wander Gracious Home looking for a knob or pull in the right material, scale, design, and finish until my eyes start to glaze over. Most of the options are too contemporary or too rustic or just plain dowdy (lacquered antique brass with scrolls and filigrees?). So here's an old-school alternative to knobs on kitchen or pantry cabinets:
Cabinet latches, also known as box locks. Functional and stylish but not fussy. Our very own Scrappy Cathy had these in her kitchen when I visited and I hope they haven't gone anywhere! Bossman Miles has silver-plated box locks on his ebonized cabinet doors -- like I always say, steal from the best -- but the basic ones aren't expensive at all. House of Antique Hardware carries the style above in four finishes, including polished nickel for $2.99 each.
These are my favorite, too--love them! We're going to have to do a kitchen in the apartment we're buying, so I have hardware on the brain...
No, way, Nick, the hardware's staying!
Holler for hot hardware!
Hey Nick! Ohmygosh I'm sooo with you...I can browse hardware online until my eyeballs throb...it just never gets old...so many options! I love the post.
PS I gave you a shout out on my blog today...I played deal hunter last night and scored some amazing chairs.
www.thegoodlifebyerin.blogspot.com
thanks for posting this. Its very informative.
They look great, but if I could interject a bit of caution. At $2.99, this type of hardware could very well look cheap and not function well and possibly break. The hardware I use for my projects of this type, the latch and strike plate, costs $100 each to purchase. Now, I couldn't even buy that for ME, but my clients buy it from me, and it is of very high quality, really heavy and precision made. One client found this type at Renovation Supply, which has it for $55. It was inferior to what I carry, though, as you can see, pricey too! Perhaps Renovation Hardware sells it too. At $2.99, with that finish, I'm afraid the finish could also fail, and then you have specific holes not in one door, but drilled into two doors, which is then a nightmare if you have to replace the hardware.
I'd get a few pieces, maybe not for the kitchen but for another area, or at least try to beat it up and abuse it a bit and see how it holds up.
Other than that, great find, I have not seen this type of hardware in that gold finish!
susan
http://www.thekitchendesigner.org
Thanks Erin and thanks Susan for the heads up! Perhaps best to try this on a cheap, freestanding piece of furniture before drilling into nice cabinet doors.
Love these! They would be great in a bathroom!