Furniture handles for children's rooms - furniture handles for children's cabinets

Knobs, Furniture Handles, and Hangers for Children's Rooms

A knob is the most common form in a child's room, and this is due to the furniture itself. You screw it in one at a time, so it goes where the front is narrow or shallow, and such places are most common in children's furniture: cabinet doors, shelf fronts, bedside tables. Furniture handles with two mounting points can be grasped with your entire hand and come in oblong, edge, T-Bar, and shell models. You mount a wall hanger next to the furniture, not on its front, so it gives your child room for a backpack and jacket without taking up any closet space. A wider selection of hangers is available in a separate section: hangers and hooks. The design here adheres to Scandinavian and modern trends, while classic, retro, or loft styles are less common, so you can match light wood and white cabinetry without compromise.

What's the difference between handles for a girl's and boy's room?

The difference is color, nothing more. The shape and spacing are determined by the furniture, not by who lives in the room, so you choose handles for a girl's room and handles for a boy's room exactly the same. There are plenty of colors here. On the metallic side, brown, silver, and gold; then blue, black, white, copper, green, pink, and red. Multicolor models form a separate group, combining several colors in one design. Match the color to the front, not the child's age, as the same handle is repeated on six or eight drawers and sets the rhythm of the entire chest of drawers. A light front showcases a strong color throughout, so red or blue is visible from the doorstep. A wooden front more subtly embraces shades from the same family, such as brown and copper, and the hardware then becomes perceived as part of the furniture. If you're looking for bold colors, check out colorful furniture handles.

Which children's wardrobe handles should you choose for a tall door?

The door of a wardrobe is tall and heavy, and you open it several times a day. Therefore, choose children's wardrobe handles from longer models that can be gripped with your whole hand. Handle lengths range from 15 to 330 mm in this section, so you'll find both a short door handle and a profile that extends the entire height of the front. On a drawer wider than half a meter, a single knob in the middle skews the guide when a child pulls it from the side, so it's better to choose a longer handle or two knobs spaced symmetrically. For a desk, extending the hardware beyond the front is crucial, as the handle fits exactly where the child's knees rest, and the lower drawer opens while sitting. On a bookcase or bedside table, the front is small, and a medium-sized knob, with a diameter of 20 to 40 mm, is sufficient. You choose the same handles for a girl's wardrobe and the same models in a boy's room, because the weight of the door doesn't depend on whose wardrobe it is.

Handles for Teenage Furniture and Replacing the Hardware Without Replacing the Furniture

A piece of furniture in a child's room lasts for years, a pattern on the front for a much shorter time. Handles for teen furniture usually consist of the same body with replaced hardware: you unscrew the knob with the animal figurine, screw the smooth model into the same hole, and the room stops looking like a nursery without buying a new wardrobe. The replacement is successful under one condition: the new model must have the same mounting point, meaning one or two holes in the same spacing. So when purchasing furniture, check the drilling pattern of the fronts right away. The material does the second part of the work. Wood is the most common in this category, most often oak and beech with a semi-matte varnish, as well as oiled wood combined with enameled metal. On the metal side, you have brass and steel, followed by plastic and rubber. Rubber and plastic usually end up in designs for the youngest children. Oak and brass remain on the front even when the child starts high school. There's a wider selection of wood in the wooden furniture handles section.

What spacing should I measure for children's room handles when replacing them?

Children's furniture is almost never purchased with new hardware, so you're usually working with pre-drilled fronts. Measure the screw spacing before unscrewing the old handle. In children's furniture, the most common values are 40, 80, 96, and 128 mm, while some models have no spacing at all because the front requires a single hole. A child can choose a pattern in half a minute, but it's the measured spacing that determines whether that pattern will even fit on the finished front, so the measuring tape comes before the catalog. The second number refers to knobs: small ones measure up to 20 mm, medium ones above 20 to 40 mm, and large ones above 40 mm, with a small hand holding the medium size more securely, as an 18 mm diameter knob requires a two-finger grip. The protrusion beyond the front is left: it ranges from 10 to 86 mm, and most models are between 21 and 40 mm. The smaller this value, the less the hardware protrudes from the door surface and the less likely it is to catch the sleeve on the door.