Showing Off Your Personality With Custom Made Hardware

By James Spellman

Having custom made hardware in your home gives you many choices to select from. You have many materials, styles, and prices to choose from. You can pick a modern look or antique look. You can have a shiny or matte finish.

The hardware in your house starts with the entry doors. You have many metals, such as aluminum, red brass or yellow brass, stainless steel, bronze, wrought iron, and copper to have the door knobs and hinges made from. The front door of a home can make a statement about the rest of the home.

You also have the many room doors and hall doors that will need a door knob and hinges. These add to the overall decor of a house and everyone who enters the home will see them. They help set the style that you will continue throughout the house with all the other cabinet doors and drawers.

There are towel bars and rings for your kitchen and bathrooms. These add to the decor in these rooms as well as any other fixtures you have in there. You need to try to match the style of hardware to the style of fixtures so they look like they go together.

You also have other items in or around your house that are considered to be hardware. The door bell button and plate, the kick plates on the door bottoms, and the fasteners holding the shutters on the house all come into this category. Each one is an understated object of dcor that may be unnoticeable for the most part but adds to the whole picture of your home and personality.

All custom made hardware is made individually. Each piece is made one at a time and usually hand finished. Each type of metal has to made at different temperatures and can take different amounts of time to make. This is what creates the price variations. The different metals and time needed for the processes as well as the amount of pieces of each style being made cause the prices to differ.

Custom made hardware is made by casting each piece individually. The fabricators will help you if you want to design your own or will show you the molds they already have and let you choose from them. They will help you choose the right metal for the style that you want and assist you with staying in your budget if you have one.

So remember when you are making decisions about the home you live in or are going to live in that the hardware is one of the things you will need to consider. It will be in almost all the rooms in some form or fashion. Everyone that enters the home will see some of it. Make your personality known in an understated way that everyone will appreciate. Show off your style and imagination. - 29975

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