| If you are creating the perfect old home getaway | | | | antique door knobs to match the fashions of the |
| for yourself, you need to pay special attention to the | | | | time. Now 30 years later those knobs may seem |
| little details that may give away the reality. Modern | | | | antiquated but not in the right way. Now you can fix |
| homes often have modern hardware that will betray | | | | things by getting the real antique door knobs that |
| their true age. Your average sterile hardware is not | | | | match your home and change them back. |
| going to go with your beautiful Mediterranean home | | | | The best way to know if your home needs a change |
| or French chateau. They just don't add to the | | | | back to antique door knobs is to ask it. That doesn't |
| character. They actually end up being a conflict in | | | | mean you need to talk to the walls or anything, but |
| design with your home. Instead those modern door | | | | as you walk around your house, take notice of the |
| knobs and other hardware pieces are going to stick | | | | doors. Do they seem to be missing that special |
| out like a sore thumb, ruining the experience you | | | | touch? Are they begging for those antique door |
| have worked so hard to create. This is when you | | | | knobs back? |
| need to say out with the new and in with the old, | | | | Even if your home did not have them in the first |
| antique door knobs. | | | | place, antique door knobs are a great way to |
| One of the easiest ways to test the décor | | | | overhaul the look of a door or all the doors in your |
| of a home is through the door knobs of the home | | | | home. Many times today when you have the |
| itself. From the time you approach a home and turn | | | | infamous 6-paneled doors, or even white doors, |
| the knob on the front door to the moment you go | | | | adding antique door knobs saves you changing the |
| into or out of any room through a door, the door | | | | doors themselves. Alone, and with modern hardware, |
| knobs help set the tone, visually, for what the home | | | | these doors may seem very boring, but it is amazing |
| is all about. | | | | the transformation that seems to take place by just |
| In many cases a home begs for a more rustic or | | | | adding antique door knobs. Once you have made the |
| antique look that is in keeping with its design. If you | | | | change you may realize it is not the door that is |
| own an older home that has been remodeled over | | | | bothering you, but the hardware. Changing out old |
| they ears it may actually be asking you for a return | | | | fixtures for antique door knobs with glass or gold |
| to the kinds of hardware that would have been in | | | | accent can make that old door new again for much |
| style when it was first built. For instance during the | | | | less money than replacing the whole thing. |
| 60s and 70s there was a drive to change out the | | | | |