Why use stainless steel handles for cabinets? Because they’re strong, they’re attractive, and they’re easy to clean.

The handle is obviously the one part of any cupboard, cabinet or storage space that gets touched daily – which means it is the one place guaranteed to get dirty, and, over time, the only place guaranteed to erode. Wooden handles are useless – the repeated passage of hands and fingers smooths and distorts them, polishing them in time to an unusable shape and a sort of horrible stained finger-oil colour that no amount of bees wax will ever remove. Stainless steel, on the other hand, is about as impervious to erosion as you can get, and cleans up nice in a jiffy no matter what you’ve done to it.

You only have to imagine the alternative to see why stainless steel handles for cabinets are the only real option. Imagine a kitchen where all the cupboards have wooden handles. Imagine the sparkling work tops, the immaculate little kitchen table, the gleaming utensils. And the horrible sticky brown gunk collected around the backs of all those wooden handles – gunk you can’t get off without taking the varnish back to pale wood.

There are, thank God, as many varieties of stainless steel handle for kitchen, bathroom and workroom cabinets as there are types of cabinet. Even better, one usually isn’t tied to purchasing specific stainless steel handles for cabinets they’ve bought: usually, you get the cabinets and doors separately, which means you can choose any handle you want.

When choosing a handle, bear a few things in mind. One: they’re a lot more visible than you’d think, particularly if you choose the wrong ones. Two: ornate handles might look good but they’re rubbish at opening doors. Three: silver goes with everything. Gold goes with very little. You can put silver look stainless steel handles on black, on brown, on white, on natural wood and even on coloured wood. You can put gold coloured handles on, er, natural wood if you want your room to look like it was shipped in from 1985, or black gloss if you want it to look like you nicked it from the Ritz. Silver, the natural colour of stainless steel handles for cabinets, is best. Use it wisely and your kitchen, bathroom, lounge or wherever will look fresh and modern no matter who is in it.

Simple shapes are probably best – though, again, your choice will be dictated by taste as well as function. There’s no point in fitting utility room cupboards with ultra modern lozenge shaped stainless steel handles, any more than there’s much mileage in sticking a load of simple utility handles on your kitchen display cabinets. Pick the right handle for the right job and you won’t have to choose again for years.

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