Door Hardware

We're getting down to the little details in the bathroom renovation.

The existing door knobs are the only "new" knobs in the entire house... and brass toned on the outside, chrome on the inside.  They look really out of place in the hallway, compared to the bedroom knobs.

Then I remembered that there are some old doors that were left up in one of the barns (you can see them hiding in a photo in this post).  So, this weekend I went out to see if they had any hardware on them.  

All cleaned up!

I couldn't believe my luck!  There was one door with a plate that matches all of the others in the house!  The inside had a lock box that matches the originals too!

We put them in stripper to get off layers & layers of old paint.  Then Mike cleaned & oiled the inside parts.  

I think I will repaint the lock box black, but the brass door plate is really pretty- so I think I'm going to leave it.  (It's making me think I should strip the plates on the rest of the doors!)

I'm just missing the door knob and the "lock keeper" (rectangular piece that goes on the molding), but I should be able to find replacements online.

We did a lot of other bathroom odds & ends: installing the toilet, finishing the vanity installation, hanging the vanity mirror, toilet paper holder, towel bars, & wall hooks.  Plus Mike made a door saddle- more on that soon... 

I can't wait to do a reveal post, but things like the back-ordered switch plates are holding me up!!!

Shouldn't be too long now though... 

It's hard to see,
but here's the existing knob set.
(excuse the older photo!)