Schaub 211121 1" Avenue Round Cabinet Knob

A single-hole knob mounts through one bore, so it goes back into an existing knob hole as long as that hole was drilled for a knob and not a two-hole pull. The mounting screw is 8/32, the standard cabinet thread, so the existing bore takes it. Swapping from a pull to this knob leaves you with a second hole to fill.

The Orca Hardware CK-18032 Mission round cabinet knob is the nearest like-for-like: both are round cabinet knobs, the Schaub 211121 from the Avenue collection and the Orca from the 18-Mission collection. The Schaub 211121 is a 1 inch diameter brass knob with a 1-1/4 inch projection and an 8/32 x 1 inch screw. The Orca CK-19032 Whistler is a second round-body cabinet knob option if the Mission profile is not the look you want.

Projection is 1-1/4 inches from the face of the door or drawer front. That's the number to check if you have cabinets in a tight galley run, an appliance panel next to a pull-out, or a door that swings past an adjacent case, since the knob is what makes contact first.

It's a 1 inch diameter round knob, which is the common mid-size for doors and standard drawers. For a heavy, wide, full-extension drawer or a tall pantry door that gets pulled hard all day, a larger knob or a pull gives more purchase. The Deltana KRB175 round knob with groove is a 1-3/4 inch solid brass option if you want more to grab.

Brass is the base material, not zinc or plated pot metal. That matters in two places: it holds up in kitchens and baths where humidity gets to cheaper castings, and it's what makes the Unlacquered Brass finish behave the way buyers expect, developing a patina with handling rather than wearing through a coating.

Five: Matte Black (MB), Polished Nickel (PN), Unlacquered Brass (UNBR), Satin Brass (SB), and Vintage Brass (VB). Three of those are brass tones that read differently in a room, Satin Brass is a warm even finish, Vintage Brass is darker and antiqued, and Unlacquered Brass is left raw so it patinas over time. If you're matching existing hardware, order a single knob in the finish you think is right before committing to a whole kitchen.

Knobs like the 1 inch Avenue take one hole and suit doors and smaller drawers where you grip with your fingertips. Pulls take two holes on center and give a full-hand grip, which is what you want on wide or heavily loaded drawers. A lot of kitchens mix them: knobs on the upper doors, pulls on the base drawers. The Emtek SELECT 8665 in the Schaub collection is catalogued as a knob/pull if you want the option in one family.

Same size class, different styling. The Orca Hardware CK-18032 Mission round knob is a squarer, craftsman-leaning round. The Orca CK-19032 Whistler is a different profile again. For period work, the Emtek Art Deco and Emtek Allerton cabinet knobs in the Schaub collection go decorative, and the Emtek Astoria is glass rather than metal. If you want plain solid brass with no styling, the Delaney solid brass cabinet knob covers it.

Two directions from the same kind of buyer. The Emtek Art Deco cabinet knob in the Schaub collection carries a geometric deco face rather than the plain round body of the Schaub 211121 Avenue, which is a traditional style knob. The Emtek Astoria glass cabinet knob swaps the solid brass body of the Schaub for a glass knob face if you want the fixture to read as glass rather than metal. The Emtek Allerton cabinet knob is a third Schaub-collection profile if you want to stay in the same design family.

The 211121 is part of Schaub's Avenue collection, a traditional-style family, so the way to keep a kitchen consistent is to stay inside Avenue and inside one finish code across knobs and pulls. Ordering the same finish designation (MB, PN, UNBR, SB, or VB) across every piece is what keeps the run matching, since brass tones from different collections and different makers rarely line up exactly.

No, and that's the point of it. Unlacquered Brass has no protective topcoat, so the bare brass darkens and patinas with hand contact, unevenly and fastest where people actually touch it. If you want a brass tone that stays put, order Satin Brass or Vintage Brass instead. Don't mix unlacquered and coated brass on the same run of cabinets; they'll drift apart within months.

The Deltana KRB175 is a round knob with a groove, so the face carries a machined detail line rather than the plain round profile of the Schaub 211121 Avenue. It is a heavy-duty solid brass knob at 1-3/4 inch diameter against the Schaub's 1 inch, so the two also differ in scale, not just in face detail.