And just like with knob placement cabinets will look busy when the pull handles are placed flush with the door frame.
Door handle placement.
Center the hardware horizontally on the stile between 2 and 4 inches down from the top edge.
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.
The classic knob placement centers the knob on the stile and lines the knob stile height with the inside edge of the rail.
Kitchen cabinet knob and handle placement guide.
Lower cabinet pull or knob placement is similar to upper cabinet s.
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.
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.
The backset is the corresponding vertical mark needed to center the knob.
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.
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.
Use the try square to make a light 3 inch long horizontal line perpendicular to the grain inward from the mark.