Jan 2012 You don’t notice how much of an effect your door handles have, in the overall impression a room gives to guests, visitors and home users alike, until you either take them away or come across some bad ones.

There are plenty of stainless steel handles out there to adorn your cupboards and fittings with, of course – but you’ve got to be careful which ones you match with what cupboards. Or the effects, as they say, could be disastrous.

Let’s look at a couple of nasty examples first – that’ll be a good way in to the good stuff. Mind you, taste is always going to matter here: doesn’t matter how well made or good looking your door handles are, qua handle, if they don’t fit your own idea of a pleasant thing to look at. Have nothing in your home, as the man once said, that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. The right stainless steel handles will be both – but, as we mentioned, let’s take a look at some bad combos first.

The freshest ground for poor combinations of style and taste always seems to lie in any range of door handles that gets called “classic”. Unfortunately for the common or garden home owner (that would be us), the word “classic” tends to be bandied around quite a lot in DIY circles, and it tends, more or less, to mean “naff”. The reason someone calls something classic, usually, is because they can’t refer to it as “modern” or “funky” without being branded an out and out liar. In the Classic range of most DIY website sections, you’ll find a series of stainless steel handles that look like they’ve dropped out of an 80s time warp by way of the set of Dallas. Huge great twirly things that look like they ought to be stuck on the end of curtain rods; horrible faux-antique whatnots that are just crying out for some middle of the road MDF “farmhouse kitchen” units – you know, the kind of things that actually come with glass windows so you can display your bone china gravy jugs. That said, mind, it’s all (as we’ve pointed out) a matter of taste: someone, somewhere, must dig Classic look stainless steel handles otherwise they wouldn’t sell ‘em. Or is that an instance of the chicken coming before the egg?

Either way, there’re a whole bunch of cupboard handles and so on that one can buy that don’t have the mid-80s soap opera associations the Classic ones do – really funky space age looking ones, for example, or nice plain unobtrusive ones that blend in perfectly with the overall feel of a kitchen or lounge. Choose wisely, however you choose. You’d be surprised how bad the wrong stainless steel handles can look.

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