8 13/16 inch (223.8 mm) drill-center pulls for wide drawers and appliance panels
8 13/16 inch (223.8 mm) drill-center pulls are the imperial conversion of the European 224 mm spec. The size lands squarely in the wide-drawer and small-appliance-panel category, fitting drawer fronts of roughly 34 to 42 inches. It's the next metric step up from 192 mm, and many European cabinet brands use 224 mm as the spacing for their widest drawers and pantry doors. The size shows up consistently on Miele, Bosch, and Gaggenau panel-ready appliances.
Where 224 mm shows up
Full-width vanity drawers, lower drawers in tall pots-and-pans banks, and the appliance-panel cabinets that integrate with under-counter refrigeration and wine storage. The size is also common on tall pantry doors where the pull spans roughly the middle third of the door height. Some European-built kitchens use 224 mm consistently across the lower row of every drawer bank to give the cabinet faces a unified horizontal line.
Style range at this size
Bar pulls and T-pulls in metric-friendly profiles. Architectural strap pulls. Some appliance pull catalogs offer 224 mm as the smaller end of their appliance line, since the size sits at the threshold between cabinet and appliance hardware. Most pulls at this length lean modern in style. The construction tends toward heavier solid-bar designs, since the leverage at this length puts more load on the mounting points than smaller cabinet pulls.
Adjacent sizes worth comparing
The closest neighbor below is 7 9/16 inch (192.1 mm). Above, the next metric step is roughly 256 mm, though most catalogs jump to imperial 10 inch (254 mm) at this point. For dedicated appliance-pull options, see appliance pulls. Cross-spec compatibility with the 224 mm metric listing means most installations can be shopped from either page. The size is one of the cleaner cross-listings in the metric-imperial overlap range, with high interchangeability in practice.
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