Square pegs in round holes

It's time to finally close the loop on the project that started all this home improvement nonsense, my bedroom dresser.  It started like this:

 Then I painted it, and added some flashy new hardware that I picked up at the antique store and spray-painted:

It sat this way for probably at least 4 (maybe 5?) months, waiting for me to finish up the remaining hardware on the drawer on top.  You may recall that one of the weird things about the piece was the odd measurements of the original hardware - which was pretty old - and the fact that there were two different kinds of hardware on it.

I don't really have a good reason for the hold-up on getting the knobs.  At first I was being indecisive about choosing some knobs that would sufficiently match the awesomeness of the huge pulls on the bottom half of the piece.  This was truly a case where there are just too many options - unlike finding pulls with 1" apart screws, which was an epic project (see my previous post on the subject).  There are literally a million and five places to buy cabinet knobs, and they're all probably fine, but I psyched myself out over-thinking it.  Incidentally, this is also probably why my brilliant golf career didn't pan out.

Then I found these nice Art Deco-y square knobs (the ones I eventually bought), but just couldn't pull the trigger on buying them, and kind of got distracted with other projects.  So I've been inching the top dresser drawer open with my fingertips for several months now, which was fine, but always struck me as being a little bit ridiculous every time I did it.  I would just think to myself, "Go and order the stupid things already!" and promptly forget about it again.

So FINALLY I bought them, FINALLY I spray-painted them, and FINALLY I installed them.  And I do quite like them.  If I had my way I'd have those big open square ones on each and every drawer, but since that wasn't an option, this was the next best thing, I think.  I like that they kind of look like they're the middle part of the big open ones.  In retrospect, I wish I had taken a picture closer up of the knobs so you could get a better look at them, because the sides are angled in a cool way, rather than just being a boring old square - so the idea of the little knobs being taken out of the middle of the big pulls really fits even from that perspective.  Ah well, you'll have to come over and see it sometime.

Case closed!