stainless steel or black kitchen door handles

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character oak with coswell cream quartz worktop and stainless steel free standing appliances

Should i go with stainless steel or black handles for the kitchen doors

I also have satin chrome door handles on the internal doors

Decisions Decisions!:confused:
 
Stainless steel.
Better to avoid too many different materials, the stainless steel would tie in well with the chrome door handles and the steel appliances .
 
Is there a limit on the number of colours

just wondering is there a limit on the number of colours in a typical colour scheme???
 
I always thought steel didn't go that well with Character Oak, and would instead go with a rust effect D-handle
 
stainless steel show up fingerprints and smudges to be honest im always cleaning them with soapy water and shining them but then again i'm a bit too clean sometimes. maybe a normal person would not be doing that or noticing they are not spotless.
 
joshea said:
character oak with coswell cream quartz worktop and stainless steel free standing appliances

Should i go with stainless steel or black handles for the kitchen doors

I also have satin chrome door handles on the internal doors

Decisions Decisions!:confused:
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You seem to be mixing moods and materials at all levels.

I think the issues start well before the handles.

RE the materials choice for the worktop:

OP, have you installed this yet?
I found this salutary comment online:
http://weddingsonline.ie/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=189219&start=0

How well will your cream quartz top stand up to coffee and grease stains?

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If you're going for a beautiful timber like "character oak" is this expressed through the material using traditional detailing or are you going with simple panelling and clean lines, leaving the material to carry the "Look"?

If its traditional panelling then this should be carried through, to the point where you build in your free standing S/S/ units and have panelled cover doors - leave space to do this near returns and doors.
Then you could be talking decorative handles, perhaps worked in brass of timber itself to continue the traditional theme.

If you intend to have a more crisp modern line then either stainless steel or black could look quite "crisp" but with a cream top, more highlights might add little to the ensemble and black could be a good choice.

The point being that modern handles can look out of place on traditional panelled timber and vice versa - you have to balance the "look".

ONQ.
 
joshea said:
just wondering is there a limit on the number of colours in a typical colour scheme???
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THere is no one answer to this - it is a question, the answer to which is bound by time and circumstance, history and culture.

The Victorians didn't think so, and mixed colours, materials, decoration, themes and source objects reflecting the diversity of the Empire on which the sun didn't set, one that girdled the world.

The upshot of this for many people living today was a kind of gaudy bragadaccio - a confusion of colour and reference that seemed to end in a cacaphony of noise, rich beyond measure, but ultimately saying little.

Modernist Design rebelled against this, striving for purity of form and minimalist decoration, using beautiful materials with "natural" finishes in simple not complex forms, relating the few instances of decoration that were used back to to construction and details and joints used in the making of the building or work.

We have been 90 years coming back from this austerity and we're still not at a median point yet, with Tupperware Swoosh [a kind of 70's throwback on steroids] seeming to be in vogue at the moment if the success of Graft is to be believed.

http://www.graftlab.com/

Where we go from here - I don't know.

I'm reminded of Neo's final line in The Matrix:

"I am not here to tell you how it will end but I am telling you how it will begin. What happens next is your choice."

I foresee more and varied decoration coming into design, with eclectic extremes becoming more popular.

:)

ONQ.
 
(chuckle)

Thanks for the heads up - "I shall deal with it momentarily".

Sure if I was echoing someone else, it would be plagiarism!

I'd have sent you a private "thank you", but you seem to have it blocked.

ONQ.
 
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