Door Hardware

Front door hardware

Exterior lock set at family room

Door hardware at Denver salvage

Existing glass knobs with new back plates

2nd floor egg-shaped hardware

Knob set at Denver Architectural Salvage

New knob set on master bath 

I made several trips to Denver's Architectural Salvage warehouse last week to find compatible pieces of door hardware for a few new doors.    The existing hardware at 1109 Pine is quite impressive (23 doors have their original hardware), but I needed to find something old to blend in with the existing doors.  The hardware on our main floor is quite intricate, and fortunately I wasn't trying to match that hardware.  Out of curiosity I have looked at many architectural salvage online sites across the country, but I have yet to see the same door hardware as ours in their collections.  The immediate challenge was to find something for our master bathroom that would be compatible to the aged brass egg-shaped sets that are throughout the upstairs.  The best I could do was to find a beaded brass set that was not identical, but had the same overall shape and finish.  I also picked up some pretty bronze back plates for the two glass knob sets that I already had, which will serve the basement and pantry doors.  The hunt for hardware was quite fun but it could have been very daunting had I needed to find exact matches.