Animal Pulls

Animal-Shaped Cabinet Knobs and Pulls

Animal cabinet pulls turn one drawer front into a small sculpture: a squirrel mid-scamper, a crane in mid-dance, a dragonfly, a longhorn, a giraffe head, a dolphin. This collection draws mainly from two brands, Notting Hill Hardware and Anne at Home, each with a distinct take on how an animal shape becomes a working pull.

Two different approaches to animal drawer pulls

Notting Hill Hardware works in plain pewter, with pieces like Grey Squirrel and Crane Dance rendered as a single-material silhouette. Anne at Home casts its animal pulls in pewter and sets a brass edge into each one, adding a thin metallic line to pieces like the Squirrel pair, Longhorn, Dolphin, and Giraffe Head. That brass edge gives Anne at Home pulls a slightly warmer, more detailed look at close range than Notting Hill's single-material castings.

Choosing a species and orientation

Several designs, Squirrel and Headlines among them, come as a mirrored pair, one facing left and one facing right, meant to be mounted together flanking a pair of doors or drawers instead of repeated on their own down a run. Others, like Dragonfly and Longhorn, are single-orientation and work fine repeated across multiple drawers. Checking whether a design is directional before ordering multiples saves a return.

Where animal pulls fit in a kitchen

These work best used sparingly, one species per kitchen, placed on an island or a feature run of drawers, rather than mixed across every door. A giraffe on one drawer and a dolphin on the next comes across as clutter, not playful variety. Lodge, farmhouse, and coastal kitchens are the most natural fit, depending on which animal is in play.

Sizing pulls against drawer width

Most of these designs mount at roughly a 3-inch center-to-center spacing, close to a standard small drawer pull, so swapping in an animal pull rarely requires new drilling on cabinetry already fitted for a bar pull of similar size. Wider drawers can usually take a larger design like Longhorn or Headlines without the animal shape looking cramped against the drawer front.