Ceramic Cabinet Knobs

Ceramic cabinet knobs come from way back in the past. The history of knobs is interspersed with the history of furniture. In every century and era, people found a great use for them. However, in spite of being very functional and practical, knobs are a bit uncommon during earlier times compared to the more recent times. This could be because of their fundamental vulnerability. The mark of the furniture during the medieval and Jacobean times was rugged durability. Because of the need of furniture to be able to survive rough travel and treatment, people were not too keen on using fixed projections. A lot of handles, which have been seen in the earlier furniture pieces, are in the forms of rings or drops, which have very little projection or were just plain keys. Later on cabinet knobs were considered for more general applications.

Ceramic cabinet knobs are made with different materials such as iron, brass and wood and come in different sizes starting from diameters of 5/16 inches to diameters of 4 inches. There are those that are fixed and some have latches to operate. Some knobs can be attached using integral woodscrews, glued tenon, machine screws, bolts and nuts. There are also some knobs which come with round back plates in order to protect the cabinetry from fingernail scratches,while others stand alone and do not require any back plates. 

Today, the most common application for ceramic knobs would be to use for built-in cabinetry, particularly in kitchens. This is because kitchens are very important in modern domestic living and so a lot of money and effort are used to build them. Even the average-sized kitchen would use at least fifty knobs on the cabinet doors and drawers.

Quantity is a usual issue when talking about drawers. Typically, smaller drawers and cabinets need just one pull-type knob and bigger drawers and cabinets would need two, but you would still need to carefully consider how many you would be using.

As you set out to use knobs made of ceramic you should never place one at the corner of a door. Try to imagine that the door length was divided into four quarters. Avoid putting cabinet knobs on raised panels; however, this could not always be achievable as some cabinet makers recommend using raised panels for the front portions of drawers.