What style of cabinet door handle for custom cabinets? The last step in placing an order for custom furniture is to choose the cabinet door handle style! In fact, in addition to choosing between cabinet door handles provided by merchants, there is also a relatively novel approach - handleless cabinet door design. So, should I install handle for the cabinet door? Is the design without handle good? Let’s talk about it below!
. Should I install handles in a custom cabinet?
① Style matching:
The handle style of the cabinet door must be matched with the decoration style to look good. Whether the cabinet door should be designed without handles depends mainly on the style matching of the overall space. For example, the light luxury style can be equipped with metal handles, while the European and American style can be equipped with copper handles, while in minimalist and modern style decoration, you can choose a combination without handles.
②Space use:
Cabinet door without handles, the cabinet door has less impact on the space outside the cabinet body, which is more suitable for the limit of small apartments; if the cabinet door has handles, in some cases where the space is smaller, it may have a certain impact on the use of the space.
③Cabine door material:
Some cabinet doors cannot be equipped with conventional handles due to special material reasons, such as glass or mirror cabinet doors. The material of this type of cabinet door cannot be screwed, so it is naturally impossible to install conventional handles. Generally, it is a handleless or invisible handle.
. Is it good to have no handle?
①Beautiful and elegant:
cabinet door is made into a handleless design. The entire cabinet door looks much simpler and more atmospheric, and the flat cabinet door also weakens the presence of the cabinet, making the cabinet easier to blend with the wall. No handle is more suitable for the matching of wall-type cabinets.
②Easy to manage:
When wiping and repairing the cabinet door, if the cabinet door has no handles, the entire cabinet door will be flat, and the rag can be wiped by at once, which is simple and convenient; and with handles, there will be an additional position to fall into dust, which is relatively complicated to manage.
③Reduce bumps:
The cabinet without handles looks flat. In the crowded space, there are no raised handles, which can reduce the occurrence of bumps.
④Difficult to open the door (disadvantages):
. It is easy to pull the hands directly when opening the cabinet door; however, in cabinet doors without handles, the door opening often has to be blocked at the stress point of the opening of the cabinet door, which is more difficult to use than cabinet doors with handles. However, based on my experience of not holding hands at home, it is almost the same after using it for a long time.
. How to do without handles?
① Cabinet door slot: A groove is opened on the side of the cabinet door, and a person can reach this slot to open the cabinet door; this cabinet door method is not suitable for cabinet doors of granular boards, because granular boards cannot be processed twice.
②Side of the cabinet door: Like some low cabinets and hanging cabinets, the cabinet door is installed outside the countertop of the cabinet body, so that human hands can open the cabinet door from the side of the cabinet door by the friction between the hands and the cabinet door.
③ Door panel lengthening: like hanging cabinets, bathroom mirror cabinets, drawers, etc. You can add cabinet doors, so that the extended cabinet doors can act as cabinet doors for handles, and opening the cabinet doors can also be very convenient.
④Leave a slot between the door panel: Leave a slot between the door panel and the door panel, so that you can use your hands to pull the door side of the cabinet door to open the door.
⑤Hidden handle: Hidden handle, handle is installed on the inside of the cabinet door, suitable for the combination of cabinet doors with raised cabinet doors or cabinets with slots.
⑥ Cabinet door angle cutting: In some relatively short cabinets, and the cabinet door is relatively compact, the cabinet door angle cutting method can be used to realize the opening of the cabinet door and act as a handle function.
⑦ Rebounder: Press and bounce up, and then press and fold up. The rebound is also a good choice for cabinets without handles.
. Which one is more expensive, without handles or with handles?
In terms of cost, it is roughly sorted from high to low: slotted without handle > with handle ≈ rebounder > other handles without handle.
slotted to make handleless cabinet doors, the production and processing cost is much higher than that of ordinary cabinet doors; while other handleless cabinet doors mainly focus on the design ability when designing cabinets, which generally will not have any additional costs for experienced manufacturers.
Overall, in modern decoration with more and more small apartments and more minimalist styles becoming more and more popular, I believe that more and more people will choose cabinet designs without handles.
