Hardware

We finally got rid of all the ugly, brassy gold hardware in the house! It took a while to get every single hinge and doorknob replaced, but we now have a house full of brushed nickel hardware.



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We also replaced all the fleur de lis knobs and pulls in the kitchen with brushed nickel knobs and cup pulls. We are still working on getting all the hinges replaced in there.

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Replacing hardware isn't an expensive project, but it makes a huge impact and really helps update the whole house.

$20 for three rooms worth of hardware!

Last week, Hobby Lobby had their decorative hardware on sale 50% off, so we decided to go check it out. We ended up going home with nine knobs for $20.66. That's all six knobs for the living room built-ins, one knob for the hall bathroom, and two knobs for the master bathroom. We plan to get drawer pulls for the three drawers in the master bath, but they didn't have any at Hobby Lobby, so we will probably order those online.

The first knob is a pretty shade of blue. We had no idea what we were going for in the hall bathroom until we saw this knob. We both really liked the color, so our hall bathroom is now going to be blue. :)

We plan to print and frame a couple of photos from our honeymoon to go in here. These are some of the candidates for printing:

We bought clear knobs for the master bath:

I think these will look really cool once the cabinets are painted white.

The knobs we purchased for the built-ins in the living room were a bit of a surprise to us, but once the idea was planted, we just had to do it. Hobby Lobby had lots of white ceramic knobs with black letters on them. Our last name happens to have six letters in it and we happen to have six cabinets in the living room, so we spelled our name out across the built-ins. :) So fun.

So that's how we got three rooms worth of hardware for around $20!