by Rachelle de Bretagne

Created on: November 04, 2007

Wooden cabinets may look tired and worn, or maybe just lose their appeal because of changes in fashion, though wood is a beautiful material for the home and will outlast all those artificial man-made replacements and give years of service. To update a piece of furniture, it may be just a question of choosing new knobs to give that cabinet a bit of style and to make it fit with today's look. It may just be that the traditional knobs have worn and you want to freshen up the look, though whatever the reason, the choice available is astounding, and even in wood itself, the color range immense.

WOODEN KNOBS

If you want to match wood to wood, it may be worth your while seeing if there is a part of the cabinet that will come off, such as a door, because taking this with you when choosing knobs can help you decide which wood you should choose to match the existing, or whether a complimentary wood would look nice.

There is a great tip here. If you are buying wooden knobs that have no varnish finish, if you wet the tip of your finger and put it onto the wood, what this does is tell you the color that you would achieve with a clear varnish, helping you to compare with the existing piece. This will also tell you if you need a stained varnish to make the wood a similar color to the original piece, and here, all varnishes are displayed with color cards, so you can choose the nearest color to the original wood.

CERAMICS

Ceramic knobs look particularly stylish and may make a nice contrast to the wooden cabinet. Here, take a look at the range of sizes as well as colors. There are some amazingly intricate designs available in bright colors as well as the classic white. Here, choosing a color that matches the special color that is dominant in the room, you can make a piece of furniture look like it was tailor made.

METALLIC COLOR KNOBS

Here, a piece of furniture can be made to look very classy indeed by adding knobs that add a little bit of style to the item. The choice of knobs available these days mean that each piece can be individualized and look super.

KITCHEN CABINETS

To update that look on tired cabinets, nothing works quite as well as updating knobs and handles to give the whole kitchen an uplift. Here, whether you choose to paint the cabinets or leave them in their rich wood color, new knobs can make the whole look different and the color range and shapes that are available these days mean that you can blend colors with the main colors of the room and make the kitchen look like it has had a makeover.

Knobs of different sizes, shapes and colors make that piece of furniture very stylish and with a little imagination your home becomes something you created instead of off the shelf standard, and that's what home is all about.

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