Gunmetal and French Gold Cabinet Pulls: The Real Names

Gunmetal cabinet pulls and French gold cabinet hardware both exist at Studio Timeless, but neither is a finish name we actually sell. Gunmetal appears under three different names, none of them on a switch. French gold is two product titles, not a colour. This page gives you the exact option names, sizes and prices, so you order the piece you meant.

In short

• The dark finish you are calling gunmetal is sold as Gunmetal Black on cabinet hardware, as Gunmetal on two hinge models, and as Weathered Gunmetal on a third. Three names, one idea.
• There is no finish called French gold. Two product titles contain the word French; one of them offers no colour choice at all, and the other sells Gold and Silver.
• The word Gold is in seven of our cabinet product titles and is an option value on only two products. Five titles promise a colour the menu never offers.
• Gunmetal Black costs exactly what Antique Brass costs: 3.00 dollars more than Brass at every pull size on the Linear range.
• Gunmetal, Gold, Silver and Nickel appear nowhere on a light switch, dimmer, outlet or wall plate. Only black crosses from cabinet hardware to the wall.

Gunmetal is in our catalogue three times, under three different names

Search our catalogue for gunmetal and you get three spellings across four products.

On cabinet hardware the name is Gunmetal Black, and it exists on exactly one listing: the solid brass Linear handle and knob set, where it covers six pull sizes and three knob sizes, nine variants in all. On door hardware the name drops the second word: the plain brass butt hinge and the heavy duty round edge butt hinge both list a finish called simply Gunmetal, at 39.00 and 41.00 dollars by height for the plain hinge and 45.00 dollars for the round edge. The butterfly brass hinge uses a third name, Weathered Gunmetal, at 37.00 dollars.

A specification that says gunmetal therefore has to be read twice, once against the cabinet range and once against the hinge range, because the two menus do not use the same word.

French gold is not a finish, it is two product titles

Nothing in our catalogue is finished in French gold. The phrase reaches us because two cabinet listings carry the word French in their title, and both of them are gold coloured.

The first is the French Luxury brass handle, a fluted pull and knob family with ten sizes from 64 mm to 320 mm centres, priced from 17.90 to 47.90 dollars. Size is its only option: it has no colour menu at all, so there is nothing to get wrong. The second is the French Luxury cabinet and door pull, which does have one, and it is the interesting case.

The only listing that sells a colour called Gold also sells one called Silver

Our French Luxury cabinet and door pull is the only product in the catalogue whose option menu contains the value Silver. It offers four sizes in two colours, Gold and Silver, and the two colours are not priced the same.

All prices in US dollars, read from the catalogue on 18 October 2026. Silver is the eleventh finish word in a catalogue most people assume has eight, and the gap between the two colours widens with length, from 2.00 dollars on the knob to 5.00 on the longest pull. We publish no reason for that, and will not invent one.

Across the cabinet range, the word in the title is not the word in the menu

This is the measurement worth taking away: seven of our cabinet product titles contain the word Gold, and Gold is an option value on only two products.

The five titles that say Gold and never offer it are the cross knurled handle (Brass, Antique Brass, Black), the stepped ring handle (Brass, Antique Brass, Black Brass, Black), the Solid Gold brass Linear handle and the simple gold cabinet pull (both size only), and the gold edge pull, which sells Brass. The two that do offer Gold are the T-bar cabinet handle and the French Luxury pull above.

The same mechanism runs through the other colour words: Chrome is in one title and no menu, Brushed Nickel in two titles and no menu. We published the same finding for the edge pull family and the Art Deco range, and on the electrical side in what a gold light switch really is.

What gunmetal costs, next to brass and antique brass

Gunmetal Black is priced identically to Antique Brass at every size on the Linear range, and both sit above Brass by a fixed amount. Here is the whole ladder.

The uplift is 3.00 dollars on every pull, 1.00 dollar on the two small knobs and 2.00 dollars on the 50 mm piece. So the dark finish carries no premium of its own: it costs what the antique costs, and a budget built on Brass moves by three dollars a pull and nothing else. Our sizing and spacing guide explains why we list two numbers for every pull, centres first and overall length second.

The same Linear handle is sold twice, once as gold and once as brass

Put the two Linear listings side by side and they are the same object. The Solid Gold brass Linear handle offers nine sizes and no colour choice; the set offers the same nine in three colours, and its nine Brass prices match the gold listing to the cent. The piece one page calls gold is the piece the other calls Brass, at the same money.

One wrinkle will make a takeoff go wrong: the 50 mm piece is a T-Bar on the gold listing and a Knob on the set, both at 17.90 dollars. Same part, two nouns. Order from the set if you want two colours, because the gold listing cannot give you a second one.

Black Brass and Black are two names on one listing, at one price

The stepped ring handle offers four colours, and two of them are Black Brass and Black. They share six sizes, and on all six the price is identical: 23.90, 25.90, 27.90, 29.90, 31.90 and 49.90 dollars, plus a 50 mm T-bar at 17.90 in both.

We will not tell you the two are the same piece, because the catalogue does not say so. What we will say plainly is that a buyer choosing between them has nothing to go on, and that two names at one price on one page is a defect in our listing rather than a choice we are offering. If you need the dark stepped ring, write to us through contact and we will tell you which value to pick.

Brushed nickel is two listings, and one of them does not publish a size

Two products carry Brushed Nickel in the title and neither offers it as a finish value. The knurled knob and pull range lists eleven sizes, four knobs at 17.90, 18.90, 20.90 and 19.90 dollars for 25, 30, 35 and 50 mm, and seven pulls from 25.90 to 41.90, with size as its only option. The brushed nickel knurled cabinet knob has one option whose only value is the word Knob, one variant at 18.90 dollars, and no published dimension anywhere on the page. That price matches the 30 mm knob on the sister listing, and nothing says it is the 30 mm knob. So buy from the eleven size listing, where you can see what you are getting. Note also a price inversion there, which we flag rather than defend: the 50 mm knob is 19.90 and the smaller 35 mm knob is 20.90, so the bigger piece is cheaper.

Where each of these words actually lives

This table is the whole article in one place, separating words you can actually select from words that only appear in a title.

The right hand column is the one that saves projects. Our electrical finish range is a separate vocabulary of eight names, and black is the only colour that crosses between the two.

None of these names designates an alloy. The Copper Development Association’s wrought brasses datasheet shows how brasses are actually identified, by UNS number across the C20000 to C49999 ranges, and it is worth knowing that two alloys the CDA calls Architectural Bronze, C38000 and C38500, sit inside those brass ranges. A colour word on a cabinet page tells you nothing about the metal underneath it.

Nickel exists here, on one knob, and nowhere near a wall

Nickel is a selectable finish on exactly one product, the Art Deco solid brass cabinet knob, in two variants at 20.90 dollars for 28 mm and 31.90 for 35 mm, where it is the dearest of that knob’s four finishes.

No light switch, no dimmer, no outlet, no wall plate and no hinge carries Nickel. For a white metal on a wall plate the answer is our Stainless Steel finish, and that name is worth understanding: it is a finish applied to solid brass, not a different alloy, as we set out in metal light switch covers.

The demand for a white metal is not new. The National Park Service records in Metals in America’s Historic Buildings that in the 1920s and 1930s some architects preferred the white metals, nickel silver, Monel, stainless steel and aluminium, while others used brass in unusual ways. Our answer to that brief is a brass substrate wearing a white finish, which is a different proposition, and we say so rather than letting a name imply otherwise.

How to translate a gunmetal or French gold specification

Translate the brief into option values before you price anything, and the job stops going wrong.

If the drawing says gunmetal and the item is a pull or knob, order Gunmetal Black from the Linear set. If it is a hinge, order Gunmetal on the plain or round edge model, or Weathered Gunmetal on the butterfly. If the drawing says French gold, settle first whether it means the fluted French Luxury profile or simply a warm gold tone, because those are different pages. If it says brushed nickel or chrome, nothing in our cabinet hardware range carries that as a finish value. And if it says gunmetal on a switch, we cannot help: Matte Black is the only dark wall finish we make.

For a run across several rooms, the finish sample set at 50.00 dollars is credited against your first order, and two dark finishes in daylight settle the argument faster than any page: see verifying a finish before you order.

What we do not publish about these finishes

Four fields matter to a specifier and we publish none of them for cabinet hardware: the base alloy or UNS designation, the coating process behind each dark or white name, a BHMA finish code, and any expected service life for that coating. We ran the same audit on our hinge range and on the edge pulls, and scored three fields out of seven both times. The third field is not an invention of ours: section 4.0 of ANSI/KCMA A161.1 requires that exposed cabinet hardware “comply with the finishing standards of the current version of ANSI/BHMA A156.9”, so a finish code is the normal currency of this trade and we are not yet speaking it.

So treat every name above as a colour. What we stand behind is the substrate: these are solid brass parts, which is why a scratch polishes back rather than revealing a different metal. Specifiers who need the missing fields should ask through the trade programme, and we will put the question to the supplier in writing rather than guess.

What this means for a whole house

Matching hinges to pulls in one dark tone means buying two finish names from two menus, so sample both before a run, and our room by room guide works through a full house on that basis. The duplicate listings above are also why today’s companion piece on getting unlisted or imported equipment approved insists on written confirmation rather than page copy. A title is marketing. An option value is the contract.

Frequently asked questions

Do you sell gunmetal cabinet pulls?

Yes, under the name Gunmetal Black. It is a colour option on the solid brass Linear handle and knob set, covering six pull sizes from 96 mm to 320 mm centres and three knob sizes at 19, 26 and 50 mm. It is the only cabinet listing that offers it.

What is the difference between Gunmetal and Gunmetal Black?

They are two names on two different families. Gunmetal Black is the cabinet hardware value. Gunmetal without the second word is a hinge value, on the plain butt hinge and the heavy duty round edge butt hinge. The butterfly hinge uses a third name, Weathered Gunmetal. We publish no comparison of the three coatings.

Is French gold a real finish?

No. No Studio Timeless product has a finish called French gold. The phrase matches two product titles that contain the word French. One of them, the French Luxury brass handle, has no colour menu at all. The other offers Gold and Silver.

What is French gold cabinet hardware, then?

In practice people use it for a warm gold tone on a fluted or classical profile. The nearest things we sell are the French Luxury brass handle, in one colour and ten sizes, and the French Luxury cabinet and door pull, in Gold or Silver in four sizes.

Do you make gunmetal light switches?

No. Gunmetal does not exist on any switch, dimmer, outlet or wall plate we make, under any of its three names. Our electrical range runs to eight finishes and the only dark one is Matte Black.

What is the difference between Black Brass and Black on the stepped ring handle?

The catalogue does not say, and the two are priced identically across all six shared sizes. We treat that as a fault in our own listing rather than a choice. Write to us before ordering and we will confirm which value to select.

Do you sell brushed nickel cabinet knobs?

Two listings are titled for brushed nickel, but neither offers it as a selectable finish. Buy from the knurled knob and pull range, which publishes eleven sizes, rather than the single variant listing, which publishes no dimension at all.

Is Gold more expensive than Black?

On the one product where you can compare them directly, the T-bar cabinet handle, Gold is cheaper: 64.90 against 70.90 dollars at 23.62 inches, 81.90 against 88.90 at 31.49 inches, and 117.90 against 128.90 at 39.37 inches.

Where to go from here

Pick the option value, not the title. Browse the cabinet knobs and pulls collection or the wider hardware range, and if a name on a page does not match a name in a menu, ask us first. Studio Timeless makes solid brass hardware to order for projects in the United States.

Last updated: 18 October 2026. Prices and option values read from the Studio Timeless catalogue on that date.