Question about Ikea hack!

crayola

Hi all

I have this chest of drawers on order from Ikea, and think it's going to be a lovely addition to my bedroom. However I am not so keen on the drawer-pulls, and would like to replace them with some more quirky, decorative knobs which I will source myself.

However, looking online these drawer-pulls seem to be sized, and I have no idea how I'd figure out which ones would fit my drawers.

Can anyone help? I would have thought there'd be a standard size for this kind of thing.

Doozergirl

You don't need a standard size. Anything you buy should come with a washer that means as long as it's screwed in tightly, it will fit. I've got Ikea drawers that I've done exactly the same and the one set of drawers now has three different types of glass knob and I didn't check any of them for sizing, so don't worry about that

The only thing is if those pulls, if the backplate of them is quite large, it might mean that two holes have been drilled into the drawer fronts. I don't think it is on the Edland, but I can't see properly on the pictures. I have a linen cupboard where that was done. I was painting it though so I was able to fill one of the holes and sand it back, then paint.

crayola

Thanks, that's really helpful. I know that it worked OK with Anthropologie knobs as I saw someone had done this with the same chest of drawers and blogged about it (which was what gave me the idea!), but I may not want to spend *quite* that much on drawer-pulls so was hoping another type may do.

I can see which Anthropologie knobs were used and they only have a single bar, so it looks like I can take my pick. Fantastic