We are very happy with these handles, and we were able to get them at a lower price than many other options. We moved into a home with 5" handles on everything in the kitchen (and there were these very dated squiggly chrome ones on there!). This definitely helped to tone down the kitchen, and they are sturdy. We didn't have any problems with scratches on ours. Every once in a while it was hard to get into the existing holes, but that's likely not due to the handle itself.