Vintage Rolling Pins: DIY Kitchen Cabinet Door Knobs

Vintage Rolling Pins

What are vintage rolling pins?

These classic kitchen utensils, whether wooden or glass, were essential in traditional baking.

Wooden vintage rolling pins, with their sturdy design and round handles, were the standard choice for rolling out all types of dough, from bread to cookies.

Glass rolling pins, however, served a more specialized purpose—they were often filled with cold water to keep the dough cool, especially for pastry-making, where temperature control was key.

Today, these vintage items are cherished not just for their functionality but also for their nostalgic charm and decorative appeal in farmhouse and cottage kitchens.

Why do you need a vintage rolling pin?

There are abounding ways to decorate with a traditional rolling pin. I have six old rolling pins that I have collected and display them on top of our kitchen cabinets in an old white grub pot.

Homemade Revival has a fantastic post with several more rolling pin decorating ideas that you may enjoy in her post Inspiration Friday: Rolling Pins.

What are the different types of rolling pins?

Besides the old wooden rolling pins, you can also find plastic, glass, and silicone rolling pins.

For today’s project, though, wooden rolling pins are best, especially the really old worn ones.

And have you seen Gesine’s new cookbook, My Vermont Table?

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Vintage Wooden Cabinet

A few years back, I picked up this Antique Pine TV Cupboard I wanted to use in our then-sunroom.

Since then, we have recently repurposed and made over this space. See more in the 4 Season Sunroom Makeover with Grand Mountain Views post, and it was now time to recycle this old cupboard into a small baker pantry for our kitchen.

But I didn’t love it; it was missing something.

That’s when I came up with the idea to use the rolling pins for the vintage wooden kitchen cabinet.

Step-by-Step Vintage Rolling Pins Door Handle DIY

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Materials You Will Need:

I also used the Maple Pine Restor-A-Finish and Feed-N-Wax to clean and shine the vintage baker’s pantry.

Next, I used it again to add luster to the vintage rolling pins before mounting each onto the baker’s pantry doors.

Attach Rolling Pins to Bakers Pantry Doors in 3 Easy Steps

Step 1

Align the vintage rolling pins where you would like them on the outside doors of your cabinet.

Mark, with a pen or pencil, about the center of where the rolling pin will be attached on the inside of the cabinet door. Like this:

Step 2:

Drill a screw through the marked spot until it’s all the way in.

The screw should be large enough to go right through the pantry door so that you can attach the rolling pin to it on the outside of the door.

Step 3:

Attach the rolling pin by simply pushing it into the screw and rotating it numerous times until it is a tight fit with your cabinet’s door.

One old rolling pin is mounted.

Now, center and add the second vintage rolling pin similarly.

I’m using two different-sized rolling pins for my baker’s pantry simply because that is what I had on hand. But you may find a few in more excellent vintage condition than mine are here today.

Once mounted, the rolling pins are super easy to remove and switch out should I find old rolling pins that I prefer down the road while out Thrifting with the Gals.

But I am very content with the asymmetrical look of the two different-sized rolling pins.

How do you display vintage rolling pins?

It would be fun to get creative with the old wooden rolling pins by changing out the rolling pins handle colors with a bit of paint or magic marker and maybe decoupaging them with some colorful paper napkins.

I also love how my friend Sara created these Christmas Card Holder Displays from old rolling pins.

These rolling pin baker pantry handles also serve a dual purpose, such as kitchen hooks for aprons, grocery bags, etc.

Add a few cookbooks and your favorite dishes to the mix for a pop of color.

How easy was that?

Let me know if you try out this little project.

I’d love to see your photos!

Email me here, and I’ll feature you on our Reader’s Showcase page.

And just yesterday, I stopped in at this old Vermont farmhouse, which was having an estate sale. I picked up this vintage “Joy of Cooking” book.

I loved the patina and color and thought it would match beautifully with this baker’s pantry and vintage rolling pin door handles.

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