Cabinet Knobs & Handles

Porcelain Cabinet Knob

When you’re building a modern china cabinet, it’s important you add fashionable cabinet knobs and handles to illustrate the elegance that is your china cabinet. The bottom half of a cabinet is typically a simple cupboard for storing every day serving trays, napkins, silverware, and miscellaneous household items. The upper half is an open rack for displaying your favorite porcelain statues, china, vases, and collectibles. Among the more interesting features of a china cabinet are the decorative cabinet knobs and handles.

An asymmetrical design allows you to store and display a wider range of items than if the cabinet were equally divided from side to side. And the overall slenderness of the cabinet means you can fit it into just about any room, tucked into a corner wall or featured prominently along the center of a wall and showcasing cabinet knobs and handles. Plates and other items that are displayed in the open area of the cabinet can be accentuated with plate holders. Or you build a few custom-sized plate holders from scraps of molding. Just cut the molding into strips about the same width as the plates, and inset the strips at intervals in a plain wood frame.

Rust Hammered Cabinet Knob

When you’re making a china cabinet with cabinet knobs and handles, you’ll cut the back to size and sand the edges smooth. Use a compass to draw a semicircle with a radius at the each top corner of the back panel. Cut the curves with a jig saw and sand the edges smooth. Next, use a household iron to apply birch veneer tape to the side and top edges of the back panel. Trim the excess tape with a utility knife and sand the edges smooth.

Cabinet Door Handle Hardware

The next step in making a china cabinet with cabinet knobs and handles is to measure from the left edge of the back panel and make reference marks on that panel. These reference marks are used as guides for installing the rack shelves. Cut the bottom rails and the cupboard bottom to size. Apply edge tape to the front edge of the cupboard bottom, and position the bottom rails beneath the cupboard bottom, flush with the edges, and drill counter board pilot holes through the cupboard bottom and into the tops of the rails and attached the pieces with wood screws. This will help you make a china cabinet with cabinet knobs and handles.