Think I had a blind or possibly drunk carpenter install the cabinet hardware in my home. Looking for a way--?

Question

The cabinet hardware in our kitchen is all Horribly installed. It almost appears that whoever installed it tried to eyeball everything but terribly so. I took a tape measure and a few drawer pulls are almost 3/4 of an inch lower than the one next to it. It was like this when we bought the house a few years ago but now I need to do something about it because it is driving me crazy.

Cabinets are oak...hardware is a brushed nickle.

In my mind a perfect solution would be some decorative brushed nickle washers under each leg of the pulls. Maybe and inch in diameter. Searched the web but came up empty. I`m kind of at my wits end. Anyone out there know where I could find such a beast or even better! Anyone have a better idea?!?

Answer 1

Do it right and remove the hardware, fill in the holes, and drill new holes in the proper area. You can stain the small filled in holes.

Answer 2

These are called fix it plates:

http://www.coolknobsandpulls.com/cabinet...

If that doesn't do it for you, ask about escutcheons in the hardware section.  (Fancy washers)

Answer 3

Besides plugging, there are decorative plates, made to cover the wood behind the pull.

Any big box store will have a selection.

Another source is Lee Valley Tools.....

They are on line and have a huge hardware inventory.

Answer 4

see if you can have the present holes filled and redrill them all evenly

Answer 5

the first fix would be to find fixtures with wide bases to allow fo the proppre placement of the hardware or you can try to find some dowls to plug the offsetholes then attempt to stain the area.redrill holes in the propper location and install fixtures in there propper location.

Answer 6

This is just an idea, it wouldn't take long to check:

Possibly the drawers from the different cabinent units have gotten interchanged (maybe all the "low ones" belong on one side and the "high ones" belong on the other side of the kitchen etc). Maybe the "low handles" were for the top-most drawers, to give more clearance from the countertop?

It's worth looking into before plugging holes and re-drilling, or finding handles with bases big enough to hide the old holes.

Added:

On some cabinets, the drawer fronts are just held on from the back side with screws; maybe some of them are on upside-down ?