{"title":"Brushed Nickel","description":"\u003cp\u003eOf all the finishes a kitchen can lock itself into for the next twenty years, Brushed Nickel is the most forgiving. Not as bright as polished chrome. Not as warm as bronze. It sits in the middle and lets the rest of the room do the talking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhy Brushed Nickel ages well\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost metal finishes pick a side. Polished chrome reads clean and cool. Oil-rubbed bronze reads dark and traditional. Matte black reads contemporary and graphic. Brushed Nickel doesn't pick. It's a directional grain laid over a silver-grey body — quiet enough to vanish into a white kitchen, present enough to give a wood-toned kitchen something to hold onto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's also the finish that survives the actual conditions of cooking life. The brushed grain hides the small scratches you'll inevitably put on a cabinet pull while loading a dishwasher with full hands. Fingerprints wipe off with a microfiber cloth instead of accumulating like they do on polished metals. It doesn't oxidize, doesn't yellow, and looks roughly the same on year ten as on day one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe kitchens Brushed Nickel belongs in\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you're working with a cool palette — white shaker cabinetry, grey marble, polished chrome or stainless faucet — Brushed Nickel cabinet hardware is the obvious move. It tonally matches without being matchy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you're working with a warm palette — natural oak, walnut, warm-white cabinets, brass plumbing — Brushed Nickel still works as the cooler counterpoint. It keeps a warm kitchen from going one-note. (More in our \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/journal\/mixing-metal-finishes-the-rules-and-when-to-break-them\"\u003emixing-metals guide\u003c\/a\u003e.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere Brushed Nickel struggles is at the extremes. A true Victorian or Italianate room wants polished brass or oil-rubbed bronze. A starkly modern kitchen with a graphic palette will read sharper in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/matte-black-finish\"\u003eMatte Black\u003c\/a\u003e or \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/polished-chrome-finish\"\u003ePolished Chrome\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eChoosing within Brushed Nickel\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost of the Top Knobs lines — \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/top-knobs-pemberton-collection\"\u003ePemberton\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/top-knobs-chareau\"\u003eCHAREAU\u003c\/a\u003e, Aspen, Sanctuary — are available in Brushed Nickel. The choice is style, not finish. If you want refined and traditional-leaning, start with Pemberton or CHAREAU. If you want something sculptural and contemporary, look at Sanctuary or Aspen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrder Brushed Nickel \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/samples\"\u003esamples\u003c\/a\u003e alongside \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/polished-nickel-finish\"\u003ePolished Nickel\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/brushed-satin-nickel-finish\"\u003eBrushed Satin Nickel\u003c\/a\u003e. The three live close together but read very differently in a real kitchen.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/topknobshardware.net\/collections\/brushed-nickel-finish.oembed","provider":"Top Knobs Hardware","version":"1.0","type":"link"}