January #BestPainted Furniture Contest Is Live!

Hope over to the main group page on Facebook and see all the great small businesses contributing to the prize pool! Just post your entry and use the hashtag to enter!

Use #BestPaintedFurniture and enter below!

BEST PAINTED FURNITURE

 

What Length of Screw Should I Use for Cabinets & Drawers?

We recently got a short question in our DLH Friends hardware group about what size of screws is most common or should be used for installing fresh hardware in the kitchen or on furniture drawers so I thought I'd whip up a short article to help anyone else with the same question.

Truss Head Screw used for knobs and pulls

From Heike - 

Silly Question...Cabinet hardware often comes with only one size of screws for the doors, but they're too short for drawers (speaking of kitchen cabinet drawers). What length of screws do you order for the drawers without having to cut them?

We got many answers from the group, all from kitchen and furniture professionals but I'll start with my answer and then add a few more that were good tips from our members.

Derrick - 

Almost all hardware these days comes with 1" screws because most doors are 3/4" and that leaves 1/4" for screwing into the knob. So you will need to measure your door thickness and add 1/4" if you don't have a standard width. Don't go with a screw more than 3/8" longer or it likely won't screw in far enough. Some hardware will come with two sets of screws...

Heike follows up with - 

 Derrick, what's the thread size I need? I'll just stick up on them all sizes been 1" - 2"

Derrick - 

8-32 thread is about what everything is these days. Any hardware made in the last 20 years is almost surely 8-32.

And now a few responses from the group as a few of them might be helpful tips to newcomers...

Denise - It really varies from piece to piece. I just run to my local hardware store and pick up what I need for each project.

Sue - If you have old drawer pulls that you are replacing, use the screws from those.

Robin - If they’re too short I take them to the hardware store and buy something a little longer. You can bring the pull to make sure they are the right diameter. 

Flippin Furniture Design

Today I am featuring one of the top contributing artists to the D. Lawless Hardware website and newsletters. Belinda from Flippin Furniture Design in Washington, IL is a specialist at finding pages on our website with no customer photos and helping me improve the entire website with her photography!

If I remember correctly I found Belinda by just searching for local refinishers after I moved to Peoria, IL. Now it is years later and we probably have 100 of her photos on the website.  This very week she just sent in photos from her last few months work using our hardware and I'm sharing them as a show of appreciation.

Remember, Belinda is available for custom work in the Peoria, IL and Washington, IL areas.

Campaign style bail pulls on a lovely blue floral dresser.

The Myrcella cabinet knobs on a stunning navy vanity.

A beautiful sideboard cabinet featuring the Rustique pulls in antique pewter.

And the Venetian bronze Southampton pulls on this lovely floral dresser!

Thank you Belinda!

Coming D. Lawless Hardware Products Preview

 Short post. All these products are coming by the end of the year. The clear pulls there are an acrylic version of our depression glass knobs. The bin pulls are 64mm and we will eventually add several more finishes. The rest is just more stuff for our box hardware section as it is one of our busiest sections and we like to continually add new options.

Oil Rubbed Bronze Bar Pulls with Grey Birch Designs

I was recently lucky enough to work with Kaycie from Grey Birch Designs on her kitchen makeover and I was absolutely floored with the results! The kitchen looks fantastic and I got some of the best photos of our oil rubbed bronze bar pulls I could ever imagine! A kitchen like this I wanted to share with everyone. So without further ado I'll post a few shots here and you can see even more on the product pages.

The oil rubbed bronze bar pull finish is perfect for kitchens like this with good lighting. In darker rooms the bronze just looks black, but with good lighting  you get the warm bronze finish showing well and not clashing or standing out as starkly on the cabinets.

Big thank you again to Grey Birch Designs! Grey Birch Designs does kitchen and other custom design work out of the Salt Lake City area in Utah. You can find their wonderful blog here https://greybirchdesigns.blogspot.com/ and you can follow them on Facebook as well with the link at the top!