August 26, 2011  Happiness Is...Discount Hardware  When Denny
and I first decided that we wanted to buy our house, I began
doing extremely silly things. Like buying cabinet hardware.
Yeah. Never mind that we didn’t (and still don’t) have things
like…oh, you know, a full-sized couch? A guest bed? Any grown-up
furniture to speak of, essentially? No, I was worried about
kitchen fixtures. I even went so far as to buy several different
styles and put them on our apartment cabinets, just to see what
they looked like. I played around with several different styles.
From rounded “bowl-style” pulls (my term, not a technical one)
to oil-rubbed bronze knobs to painted ceramics to bar pulls.  I
thought about each one, analyzing the consequences of each far
more carefully than I did when making the decision to buy our
house (ok, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration…but only a
bit). I eventually decided on these flattened brushed nickel,
delicately arched pulls from Lowe’s. They’re about 5 inches long
and they’re just mode