When you are designing and decorating your home, you think about things like flooring, wall color, appliances, and counters. But one thing that a lot of people don’t think about is hinges. The right hinge can truly enhance the look of your home. For example, if your home design is modern, with clean lines, you wouldn’t want to go with antique hinges. They would be a jarring note to your design.
However, antique hinges can be the icing on the cake of your design if you choose to go with a Victorian or rustic theme for your home. You want to make sure that the hinges you choose not only match with your decor plan, but you also want to make sure that they match all the other hardware, like door knobs and drawer pulls, which is why it is a good idea to buy them at the same time from the same place.
When you decide that you want to go with antique hinges you have some choices. One is to go with hinges that are truly antique. These hinges are generally reclaimed from old building or other projects as they are renovated or demolished. They can be very beautiful because they have the aged patina of old metals, but they can also be very expensive since there is a finite number of these kind of hinges. Or, you can choose to go with hinges that looks antique. These hinges look like the antiques, and have undergone antiquing processes, so they look old, with the same patina. However, they are much less expensive and easier to find.
Whatever kind of antique hinge you choose to go with, it is best to buy it from a company that specializes in antique hardware like hinges and drawer pulls. You will be able to find a larger selection of hinges from a store like that, because they are geared towards people who are doing restoration on older homes or furniture and want to keep everything the same. You can find restoration hardware stores in the phone book, but if they don’t have what you want, or there isn’t one near you, there are plenty of them online. All you need to do is look them up and find what you want.