“If you’re trying to make your old home look new, doorknobs are one way to do it,” says designer Barbara Schmidt. “It’s not nearly as costly as painting everything.” Switching out doorknobs can be a ...

If you live in an old house or collect old things, you know that years of use give hardware a lived-in look that can be very elegant. Handles and drawer pulls darken over time, along with vintage ...

There's a wonderful sound that only a vintage-Ford door makes. You know the one I mean: a solid, yet muffled, double-click that happens when a properly aligned door is closed tight. To make this music ...

As Juhani Pallasmaa famously stated, "The door handle is the handshake of the building." The hardware of a door—its movable parts—directly shapes how we engage with architecture, influencing our ...