An appliance door trim handle and panel mounting assembly in which a pair of trim handles are located along the inner vertical edges of each door closure of a side-by-side refrigerator freeze or the like. Each door trim handle assembly includes a channelshaped mounting strip fixedly secured to the face of the door and a substantially J-shaped handle having its backwall seated in interlocked fashion in the mounting strip pocket. The mounting strip has a pair of legs one of which provides a recess adapted to receive the free edge of the handle backwall while the opposite leg has a resilient flange adapted to engage a plurality of lanced projections provided in the backwall of the handle allowing the resilient flange to snap back after the projections pass over the flange to thereby produce a snug fit which cannot be altered without the aid of tools.