Great Outdoors

Notting Hill Great Outdoors Knobs and Pulls

This Great Outdoors collection turns cabinet knobs into a small field guide: leaping trout, a wise owl, browsing bucks, a grey squirrel mid-scamper, even a gentleman golfer mid-swing. Every design starts as a pewter casting mounted on a wood-tone or natural backing, so the animal draws the eye while the mounting disc fades back. It suits cabins, lake houses, and kitchens outfitted around a hunting or fishing theme.

What the designs actually depict

Most of the run is fish and game: three separate trout castings finished against cherry, walnut, and natural backings, a wise owl in two finishes, a running buck design, and a squirrel pull made for drawer fronts rather than a door face. A rainbow trout pull rounds out the fishing side, and the golfer knob breaks from wildlife into sport. Nothing here reads as abstract. Every knob reads as a recognizable creature or scene, scaled to sit on one door rather than repeat across an entire row of cabinets.

Why pewter instead of brass or zinc

Notting Hill Hardware casts its hardware in pewter, a material most other decorative brands skip in favor of zinc or brass. Pewter keeps fine detail crisper than most alternatives, so the trout scales and owl feathers stay sharp even when you're standing right up close, rather than blurring into a smooth shape from a distance. It also finishes with a muted, low-sheen surface, one that stays quiet next to the woodgrain backings some of these knobs sit on.

Where these knobs work

Great Outdoors knobs read best against furniture-grade cabinet doors that show real wood texture — stained maple, cherry, or knotty pine — where the natural backing disc blends rather than stands out. On painted cabinets, the pewter-and-wood pairing comes across as a deliberate accent rather than vanishing into the door. Because each piece has real dimension, they work better spaced out, one or two per run of drawers, than spread across every door in a kitchen. A bar or bunk-room cabinet is a common spot for the golfer or squirrel knob, since a single playful piece there reads as intentional rather than crowded.

Pairing knobs with everyday pulls

Most kitchens using this line stick to knobs on doors and keep drawer hardware plain, since loading every drawer with animal pulls can start to compete with itself. The Rainbow Trout and Grey Squirrel pulls stand out as the pieces built specifically for drawers, so reaching for those two before improvising with a knob turned sideways keeps proportions correct.