Kitchen Garden

Notting Hill Kitchen Garden knobs

Kitchen Garden swaps animals and florals for produce: a leafy carrot, a Georgia peach, an autumn squash, and a pearly peapod, each cast in pewter as a door knob with a coordinating drawer pull. Autumn squash also turns up as a decorative tile, unusual among Notting Hill's cabinet lines and worth flagging if a backsplash is on the table for the same remodel. Nine pieces make up the group once every knob, pull, and the single tile are counted together, more variety than most single-vegetable hardware lines offer today.

Why produce motifs land differently than florals

A carrot or squash knob commits harder to a theme than any generic leaf or flower would; it announces itself as a kitchen piece specifically, fitting a working farmhouse kitchen well while feeling out of place somewhere like a windowless hallway half-bath or a guest suite entirely apart from the kitchen. Save these motifs for rooms that can carry the joke comfortably.

Matching tile to hardware

Since the autumn squash tile shares its casting with the squash knob and pull, one motif can echo from a backsplash tile onto the knobs and pulls nearby, so a designer plans the tile and the hardware in one pass instead of as two unrelated purchases. Carrot, peach, and peapod skip the tile option entirely, so confirm what's actually offered before sketching a layout around one.

Choosing which vegetable to run

Most kitchens fare better picking one motif, the peapod or the peach, say, and repeating it around the room than mixing carrot, peach, squash, and peapod onto one drawer bank, which starts resembling a produce stand more than a considered design choice. A single motif also makes reordering simpler down the road if a single cabinet gets swapped out later on for any reason.