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Best of the Guide 2005: Kitchen & Bath Hardware Stores

DAmSplendor.jpgTop Hardware: In what can only be considered a photofinish we had a big smash up at the end of the voting here. Aside from Broadway Panhandler's handy victory (and they're not even primarily a hardware store!), we will have to see if a someone breaks away next year.

Best Kitchen & Bath Hardware:
1. Waterworks
1. Home Depot
1. Expo Home Center
2. Simon's Hardware & Bath
2. George Taylor on Franklin St
3. Urban Archaeology
3. Smolka Kitchen & Bath Hardware

Best Nobs & Pulls only:
1. Broadway Panhandler
2. Anthropolgie
2. Ikea
2. Restoration Hardware
3. Bauerware in San Fran
3. Gracious Home
3. Liz's Antique Hardware
3. White Chapel in Wyoming

 
 


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Waterworks

posted by patrick (the other one) on 2005-11-07 12:00:31

I used and liked Simon's Hardware & Bath (for bath) and/or Restoration Hardware (for cabinet and drawer pulls).

posted by Sharon on 2005-11-07 12:05:29

Broadway Panhandler
Anthropolgie (for really creative (if overpriced) cabinet pulls and hooks -- i espeically love the coral ones!)

posted by ann on 2005-11-07 12:11:01

i like bauerware in sf.

online - http://www.bauerware.com/

posted by Nello on 2005-11-07 13:45:54

Gracious Home
Waterworks
Home Depot
Urban Archaeology
Lefroy Brooks

posted by anne on 2005-11-07 17:35:59

Van Dykes for restorers. vandykes.com free catalog.

White Chapel in WY. www.whitechapel-ltd.com
nice heavy good quality pieces.
unfortunately their website shows only a fraction of their products, so you have do that whole $5 or order something for the catalog. if your doing restoration -this catalog is great.

posted by little sarah on 2005-11-07 20:00:44

I just saw this website and think the glass knobs are terrific!

posted by anne on 2005-11-07 20:41:43

I love Simon's. Got glass doorknobs there, and will return for kitchen cabinet knobs soon.

posted by justina on 2005-11-07 21:23:40

Simon's Hardware

posted by Erika on 2005-11-08 11:11:36

Is Amalgamated Home on Christopher Street in the Village still open? If so, they have had great (but limited) knobs/handles/hardware in the past...

posted by patrick (the other one) on 2005-11-08 12:12:31

Ikea for cabinet pulls.

Also, Expo Home Center for bath hardware.

posted by Teonyc on 2005-11-08 12:21:32

George Taylor on Franklin St in Tribeca
previous discussed on this site
excellence for all plumbing needs - specialty english fittings, standard US stuff, old and new

or does that qualify as hardware?

posted by guido on 2005-11-08 12:31:00

I agree with Home Depot Expo. A very nice selection of tubs, tiles, etc. there as well.

posted by Cari on 2005-11-08 14:05:53

i think amalgamated home is gone, it was always worth the visit.

posted by patrick on 2005-11-08 22:43:04

I noticed that the site with the great glass knobs wasn't included in my comment above. So here it is.
http://megnaglass.net/pages/3/index.htm

posted by anne on 2005-11-09 17:25:38

Personally I think this little online store has the most unique and reasonably priced hardware! I bought their dotted door pulls when I renovated my kitchen last year.

http://www.store.yahoo.com/hardwareaccents/cabhar.html

posted by ana.log on 2006-04-12 13:46:33

i tried looking up the knobs and pull on broadway panhandler and gracious home but was unable to locate them. can someone please let me know under what section they are?

Also, while browsing Gracious Home, under Closet and Storage saw this quote and with a lot of people trying to de-clutter etc. thought it was really funny.

You are not, absolutely not, a "pack rat."

It's just that you have an eye for what's
worth something. A talent really.

We know. And we have everything
you need to organize it all.

posted by PeaceLamp on 2006-04-12 14:00:41

I went to Broadway Panhandler a few months ago looking for knobs and pulls (based on the AT listings), and they had no idea what I was talking about. Swore they never had knobs and pulls. Are there two stores with the same name? Did they discontinue them? Who knows?

posted by Ona on 2006-04-12 15:37:29

I think the tabulation on B'way Panhandler
must have gone wrong.

Kitchen almost everything, yes.
But knobs?
maybe over by the dishtowels and hardware-ish things you put in your sink . . .

posted by guido on 2006-04-12 18:49:44

p.s.
the B'way Panhandler site
is not completely representative of what they have
in the store.

posted by guido on 2006-04-12 18:51:38

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