Essential Home Hardware for Superior Decoration Outcomes
Home hardware may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about home decoration, but it plays a crucial role in the practicality and longevity of your living spaces. Getting to know the various hardware components is an essential part of any decoration project.
Major Hardware: Think steel plates, rebar, flat iron, universal angle valves, channel iron, I-beams, and more. These may not be household names, as they are not commonly used in everyday home settings, but they are indeed used, albeit in smaller quantities, during renovation projects.
Minor Hardware: This category includes furniture fittings, architectural hardware, lighting fixtures, and components used in plumbing and kitchen appliances.
Now, let’s focus on the minor hardware, specifically furniture fittings.
- Hinges: Hinges are one of the fundamental hardware items, serving to connect drawers to their side panels. They work tirelessly, operating twice with every open and close motion of a door, and bearing the weight of the cabinet doors. Therefore, it’s imperative that hinges are of the highest quality.
Hinges typically come in two varieties: standard and dampers. Dampers are distinguished by their silent operation, thanks to hydraulic principles that provide a 3-6 second soft-closing time. Even if you let go suddenly, the door will gently close without a slam.
- Slides: The smoothness of a drawer’s glide depends on the quality of its slides. Inferior slides not only make for a rough glide but can also derail, requiring manual realignment.
High-quality slides offer silent operation and are capable of supporting significant weight, no problem for them to handle six or seventy pounds.
We also recommend damper slides, which, while slightly more expensive, offer the advantage of silent operation and protect the kitchenware inside the cabinets from rough handling.
- Handles and Knobs: Handles are among the most common types of hardware, and they come in a vast array of styles. They are used on base cabinets, wall cabinets, tall cabinets, and drawers.
The material, shape, color, and size of the handles must match the style of the cabinetry to avoid a jarring appearance that can detract from the overall aesthetic.
Where to install handles for optimal usability? Ideally, based on the user’s height, with wall cabinet handles at the bottom corner of the door and base cabinet handles at the top corner, aligning with ergonomic design for both visual appeal and ease of use.
- Support Rods: You might have noticed that in smaller kitchens, traditional door opening and closing can be space-consuming and potentially lead to head bumps. Designing wall cabinets with a stylish lift-up mechanism saves space and eliminates the risk of collisions. Support rods are a standard feature for such lift-up cabinets.
To prevent the issue of the door being too high to reach after opening in a lift-up cabinet, we recommend adjustable support rods. These allow the door to stop at any height you set, solving the problem of difficult door closures.
Cheukhoi offers a wide range of products to meet most customer needs, including common household hardware such as door handles, hinges, pivots, slides, and hardware tools, as well as furniture hardware like sofa legs, coffee table, and bed hardware. We provide the most ideal prices, the best product quality, the fastest product supply chain, and the most time-saving procurement process for customers sourcing hardware in China.