In this episode of "selections never stop", we look at door hardware. Door Hardware!? Well, of course! How else would you open or shut or secure a door?!
Our hope was this would be simple. We made an appointment at a place called Knob Hill to sit down and look at different handles for our various doors. Sounds like it could be simple, right? No.
Actually, being led around the show room and having someone direct you right to what's in your budget while still retaining quality was pretty effective. But, that's where it stopped. As we learned, we didn't have much of a budget, and of course making quick decisions isn't exactly a strong suit of ours...or maybe that's just me.
Our first priority was finding something for the front door. We went through the showroom and decided on a contemporary looking handle from Ashley Norton:
It was a good mix of the simple, straight lined look we wanted, with a touch of uniqueness. Now, ideally, we could re-use this through the entire house.
So, this is where the first problem comes up. Apparently, we have a budget of $1200 for door hardware throughout the entire house. That may sound like a decent amount, but it's really not after you add up all your room doors, front door, garage door, closet doors, etc.
Actually, we know this because after finding that nice handle, we looked through the entire plan figuring out which way the doors swung open, figuring out if we wanted a lock on the door or not and even thinking about if we needed stoppers to prevent the door from dinging the wall. So, what starts as excitement as your looking at handles, becomes a chore as you're counting while going through the plans.
Anyway, at a list price of something like $130 a pop, that handle wasn't going to fit in our budget. As it turned out, that handle put us over our budget by almost $1000. No thanks.
While at the showroom, we picked out choice number two. We found a cheaper handle from Emtek that still had the clean lines, but wasn't much with respect to being unique in any way.
Even with that choice, we were still $200 over our budget and at least personally, I'm not enamored with that handle. So, what to do? Just say screw and move on? It's just a handle after all? Or spend some extra time trying to find a better option and stay w/in our budget? I don't know...I haven't figured it out yet. Ann's probably annoyed.
Oh, during this trip, we also picked out cabinet pulls and knobs. That was even more of a chore since we had to go through the plans door by door, drawer by drawer and room by room figuring out how long of a pull to put in place. I can't remember what type of pulls we picked out, so I can't post a pic yet. In the end, I'm in the same spot at the door handles. I'm not totally excited about what we picked out. I like the idea of pulls that are of various lengths and can be quite long on a long drawer, but I don't want what's become the over used Home Depot style...
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