6 5/16'' (160 mm)

6 5/16'' (160mm) cabinet hardware for a wider drawer front

Once a drawer front stretches past about 18 inches, a short pull mounted dead center starts to look stranded, which is where a 160mm spacing earns a place in cabinet hardware planning. Berenson runs this exact measurement across a wide stretch of its catalog, Tailored Traditional, Aspire, Connections, Swagger, Oasis among the lines that reach it, so the length itself never narrows down which look ends up on the drawer.

How long a pull should look on the drawer

A rough guide worth keeping in mind: a pull should run somewhere between a third and half of the drawer front's total width, long enough to feel proportional without crowding either edge. At 160mm, that guide points toward the upper-middle range of standard kitchen drawers, wider than a utensil drawer but short of a full pantry door's scale. Go shorter on a wide drawer and dead space opens up on both sides; go longer and the pull's ends start crowding the drawer's edge banding.

One vendor, nearly every finish, at this length

Because Berenson builds so many lines at 160mm, nearly its entire finish range shows up here: brushed gold, verona bronze, vintage nickel, matte black, polished chrome, black nickel, brushed tin. That breadth means the spacing rarely limits a kitchen redesign on its own; style and finish end up doing the actual deciding once the length is settled. Confirm the existing hole spacing with a tape measure first, since 160mm sits close enough to a couple of neighboring sizes that a quick glance can misjudge it.

Two neighboring lengths to weigh against it

If 160mm runs a touch long for a given drawer, 5 1/16'' (128.6mm) sits one size down. For full-height pantry or appliance panels that need more reach than a drawer pull offers, 18'' (457.2mm) goes considerably further.