Painting Cabinet Hardware

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Remember a few weeks ago when I was shopping cabinet hardware for the living room cabinets?

I had my heart set on some antique brass bars like this

But unfortunately, they wouldn’t fit on our drawer fronts and they didn’t project out far enough so we could get our hands into them to open the drawers.

So it was back to shopping and trying to find handles that stuck out far enough to be functional.

Here’s what I ended up with:

They’re the same handles we have on our closet doors in the guest room (without the back plate)

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They’re more traditional than I wanted in our living room but, hey, what good is a drawer pull if you can’t actually pull the drawer out with it, right??

So I ordered the pulls in matte black and I got black, hammered knobs for the cabinet doors

And here’s what they looked like when they came

Hmmm…

Not quite right…

The handles are too shiny and the color doesn’t go with the knobs at all

So — what to do??

Well, paint them of course!

I love the finish on the knobs so I set out to match it on the drawer pulls

I started by scuffing up the finish on the drawer pulls

I just used a Scotch pad and rubbed lightly over the whole thing, then wiped the dust off.

Next, I dabbed on some brown flat oil-based paint

If you look at the knob, you can see there are some warm brown tones in it.

I used oil-based paint because I don’t want it to rub off with use. I made sure the paint finish was flat so it wouldn’t be shiny.

Quick Tip: if you only have semi-gloss or glossy oil-based paint, you can flatten it by adding cornstarch to it.

Next I mixed up some gray and black to match the gray tones on the knobs.

I used a small disposable stencil brush to dip into the paint

Then off-load most of it onto a paper towel,

Then I dabbed it lightly onto the drawer pull, leaving some of the brown to show through

And there you have it…

A quick easy fix…

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