This Cabinet Pull Just Made The Oversized Hardware Trend That Much Easier

When you're redesigning or renovating your kitchen, you'll eventually have to make some key decisions about your cabinet hardware that will impact the overall look and feel of your space. The right choice of drawer pulls and handles can elevate the heart of your home, and make it look comfortably traditional or neat and modern, depending on your preference. For homeowners with a contemporary or maximalist style, oversized kitchen hardware could be a great choice. These elements add dramatic, eye-catching flair and make your space look more luxurious.

When you're installing oversized kitchen hardware in place of your older, smaller knobs and handles, you might run into challenges when you're dealing with your cabinet's prior drill holes. Your new hardware materials might not hide them, since the new components may be longer and wider than the original ones. To make it significantly easier to add elegant, oversized fixtures to your kitchen cabinets, you can use a simple hack from @ready.set.reno on TikTok. In the video below, the user shows us how she used Plank Hardware's Hudson T-bars to transform her space. Since these pieces have a large backplate, they allow the homeowner to skip all the patching and painting work that they might have had to do with similar hardware. With a few more bold, eclectic kitchen design ideas like this one, you can completely overhaul the visual appeal of this key room in your house.

Adding oversized hardware to your kitchen's cabinets can be as simple as following this hack and finding fixtures with a large backplate. At the start of the video, you can see the earlier pieces that TikTok user @ready.set.reno had in her kitchen. They were simple and narrow, and had five inch spaces between drill holes. To avoid dealing with these existing dimensions, she simply installed the new hardware plate over these drill holes to hide them, with the process taking less than an hour for two people to complete. The aged brass color of the handles added an elegant finish to her space, but this might not be a perfect stylistic match with your home. If that's the case, but you like the look of the backplates, you'll need to find an alternative product. Khtumeware solid kitchen cabinet handles look very similar and come in multiple colors and finishes, so they could be the perfect choice.

Choosing the right size kitchen cabinet hardware is essential for giving your space both visual appeal and functional value. Once you've found the right pieces for your kitchen, carefully measure and mark the location on your drawers and doors where the new drill holes will go. (A cabinet hardware jig can make this process significantly easier.) Make sure the placement of your fixtures and the distance between them is consistent throughout your entire space, and don't forget to touch up the paint around your new hardware after you finish installation.

If you like oversized kitchen hardware and the maximalist decor style it complements, but you can't find fixtures with backplates that match your space's existing design, then you'll likely need to fill and sand the old drill holes in your cabinets and drawer fronts. You might be able to avoid this process if you can find pieces with the same drill hole spacing as your old hardware, but in the likely event that you come up empty, then you'll have some cabinetry repair work on your hands. The good news is that this process is significantly easier than you might imagine. With a few items from the hardware store, you can knock out this modification in no time.

To begin patching the drill holes left by your old hardware, take your cabinet doors off their hinges and lay them down flat. (For drawers, you may want to remove the fronts if possible.) Then, sand the holes that you're going to fill. Next, patch each hole with wood filler from both the front and back using a plastic putty knife. If you don't already have one at home, a Bates Choice putty knife 6-pack is a well-reviewed, inexpensive toolbox staple. Wait a few hours for the filler to dry, and then sand it down so it perfectly blends with the surface of the cabinet door. Paint or stain the filled hole and the area around it. Let it dry overnight, and you'll be ready to install your new oversized hardware pieces without worrying about limiting yourself to fixtures with backplates.