Bye Bye Batwing Drawer Pulls

Our kids share an old dresser with the most annoying drawers pulls.  I think Kimba calls them batwings. 

 

They are annoying for a few reasons.  They clank and bang loudly when you open or close the drawers and half of them are falling off. The worst part is there are 5 drawers with 3 different size pulls, making it next to impossible to find matching pulls.

I found some pulls I liked but didn't want to drill new holes to make them all fit.  So I used those on the 2 drawers they fit and I used clothesline on the rest.  That's right, clothesline.

 

I doubled the clothesline and poked it through the hole with a screwdriver and tied a knot.

 

Then I twisted the two ends (my husband's suggestion) and I thought that looked better than the untwisted look.

 

 

I tied another knot and fed the clothesline through the other hole and tied the two ends together on the inside of the drawer. Clear as mud?

 

 

 

 

 

Before

After

 

 

I would say this took about 30 minutes, and maybe 5 bucks to get rid of the batwings.