Cool! Don't like antique styles, myself, but even so I can appreciate the improvement.

I like your choice of new pulls, but I hope you kept the old ones if anyone ever wants to put them back.

This is pure nostalgia. When I was a kid we had a chest with those loose bulls on them and I loved, and still do, the sound they make when used. No reason why, but it is as homey to me as fried chicken.

Speaking about details, the grains on the wood looks like quartered-sawn oak. a character of Mission style furniture. It you cut the oak a certain direction it reveals a different grain pattern unlike the typical cut the grain is rather ugly and "dated" like you see a lot in the 70s.

I like.

The new pulls are a HUGE improvement. I almost got rid of a desk because of that style of pull. That awful clanging noise echoed through the drawers, creeping me out. The pulls you've added are strong (good for the size and heft of the drawer), perfectly suited in style (reminds me of library furniture) and won't catch your feet or toes (ouch!). GREAT CHOICE!!!

The new pulls look great! I've actually been looking for new cabinet pulls for a hutch... does anyone have a good suggestion for antique hardware stores in NYC?

I recently did the same thing to a very country dining room hutch. It was a hand-me-down from well to do relatives and I am so not country. Got rid of the LARGE brass handles with back-plates and replaced with sleek pewter library drawer pulls. Not country anymore!!

The new ones look clunky and cheap. The old ones suited better that beautiful wood.

Ruined!...

Much better!

I prefer the old ones :S

I absolutely adore cup pulls, and they look fantastic here.

love it! Nice choice.

Personally, I prefer the original hardware, esthetically, to the new, but I think the cup pulls would be easier for children to use. And does someone need to noiselessly open the drawers while someone else is sleeping?

My preference for replacement would have been oil-rubbed bronze pulls from Rejuvenation.

The new pull handles are much better looking than the original ones. My childhood dresser had the same noisy, clanking pull handles and they drove me bats.

@Adreamer: actually, my mom had ears like a bat as well as the sonar, so yes, sometimes a person needs to avoid waking up Mombat late at night or early in the morning. *points to the collection of inappropriate reading material I hid in the bottom drawer with noisy handles, under the sweaters*

@minimalist1750
Sorry I can't quite parse your comment... is this the dated grain of the 70s (and of Mission furniture)? Or is the typical cut the dated grain (of the 70s) and this is an alternate cut that is more attractive? (I'm not all that impressed with this woodgrain, so can't figure it out for myself.) Thanks for the info, though.

I'm not a fan of cup pulls, though I can see how the originals were probably pretty dinky. Even though pulls are an opportunity for ornamentation, my usual instinct is for the pull to be cut out from the drawer-front itself (like so, I guess). I assume that's not consistent with the style of the bed. XD

These are perfect. Simple, but effective.

I'm not typically a huge fan of cup pulls, but I'm starting to see the appeal. My cat would have had WAY too much fun with the old ones for keeping them to be worth it! That was the biggest reason I changed them on my china hutch.

I think leather straps would look amazing, although I'm sure the cup pulls are cheaper!

Uh, Graphist, I think "ruined" is a rather extreme sentiment, considering how easy it is to change hardware. It's not like paint where you have to strip it. We're talking screw-drivers here.

I see why you wouldn't want pulls that could bang against the wood. I would have liked to have seen something other than the country bin pulls you chose, though. A more geometric version of those, with squared off sides, might have looked nice.

I like the old ones, they are much more delicate, in keeping with the grain of the piece.

Ok, maybe I would like the new ones better if they were shiny. These matt ones look as though they have been submerged in a shipwreck for a couple of years.

i like much more the old ones, they suited the wood far better and indeed looked stylish and delicate.

I prefer the original hardware over the new pulls. Perhaps, as Honeybee said, its the finish on them. Would probably look better with a shiny/smooth finish.

Huge improvement, IMO, especially for the weight of the drawers.

@minimalist1750, thanks for that explanation about quarter-sawn oak. I never realized why all that oak furniture available a few decades ago looked so unattractive.