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How to Stretch Hardware Holes

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Hardware holes and hole spacing isn’t always precise. Especially when dealing with vintage and antique furniture. Sure you can use wood filler to fill the old holes and then drill new ones exactly where you want them. Or you can stretch your existing holes. Let me explain.

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Stretching the Hardware Holes

Take this eggplant painted washstand for example. Since the original piece was missing the hardware the customer opted to order new. D. Lawless supplied these pretty pewter paisley cup pulls with the matching knob. But there is a slight problem. The hardware almost fits the existing holes, but almost isn’t good enough. I don’t want to force the cup pulls in with a mallet and risk damaging the drawers.

How to Stretch Hardware Holes, no wood filler, hardware pull spacing

MATERIALS NEEDED / SOURCE LIST

  • Electric Drill
  • Hardware
  • Paper Plate

This is what I like to refer to as “stretching the hardware holes“. Since the hardware almost fits there is no need to fill the holes and drill new. I’d rather stretch the existing holes just a bit.

First, make sure to protect the insides of the drawers since they are already nice and clean. To do this, place a half of a paper plate inside the drawer. paper plate inside drawer to catch dust, drill hardware holes, no wood filler

With the plate inside the drawer, I can now use my electric drill to stretch the existing hardware holes by drilling them in the direction that needs opening. electric drill, drill hardware hole

The hardware will fit properly after you stretch the holes. Fortunately, there really is no evidence that this was done (aside from these photos) 😉 paisley cup pulls, d lawless, hardware holes,

You can now remove that paper plate from inside the drawer and toss it out. The plate will take the dust that fell inside with it leaving your drawer clean. dust collector, stretch hardware holes,

Save yourself the wood filler and the time by stretching the hardware pull space when you can. If these paisley pewter pulls look familiar it’s because I have used them before. Click here to see them on a Vintage Lingerie Chest. cup pulls, pewter paisley cup pulls, d lawless

This eggplant piece also required a new custom build top. Click on  How to build a Table Top for more.

 

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  1. Ashley Logan says

    June 22, 2018 at 4:33 pm

    Wouldn’t the screw holes now be too big for the screw and make the handle loose? We are putting cabinet pulls on our drawers and cabinets and we accidentally measured wrong on one of the drawers. The pull almost fits but is like a millimeter or so too wide, would it work just to drill the hole a little wider?

    Thanks!

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    • kandice kullmann says

      June 25, 2018 at 8:03 am

      That’s what I did.. I made the hole a little wider. Because the change is slight the holes are a little bit bigger BUT they hold tightly in place and the new hardware covers the hole opening – at least that has been the case for all the times I have used this method. 🙂

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