Sunday, May 16, 2010

Easy Door Handle Redo

About a year ago King broke his key in the lock on our front door.  How?! Yeah, I'm not to sure.  He's not a patient man when it comes to things such as the lock giving him trouble.  However, he was gracious enough to get it replaced the same day.  He got the darker brushed bronze lock, but I don't think he realized that it didn't match the existing handle.  Of course, I saw on a few blogs where other people where spray painting theirs and I decided to do ours (especially since there isn't anything "wrong" with the handle, just the color).  I totally forgot to take a picture of the spray paint that I used.  I think it was Rustoleum Metallics and a regular dark brown.  Here's my tutorial:
I am contemplating taking off all of our "builder gold" handles and painting them too! That would be a pretty time consuming project.  It seems like we have a ton of doors so I am not 100% sure if I will actually do it or not.  However, I am definitely going to paint the ceiling fans, we only have two.  I was inspired by another blog (sorry can't remember where).  King is going to think I am crazy!






4 comments:

Stephanie Lynn @Under the Table and Dreaming said...

Wow that paint color is fabulous! Love the transformation! Thanks so much for joining the Sunday Showcase! I greatly appreciate it. Hope you have a wonderful week! ~Stephanie Lynn

2dayisgood said...

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Amanda said...

Very nice. This is a project you will enjoy every day as you come and go. Love it!

Willy Watson said...

What an refurnish and redo! Love the paint matching idea you revealed here for us. This was extremely another sweet and interesting read in this home decor world and excited seeing how you organized your webworld with precious and handy treasures. I appreciate it so much. Glad to see that you noticed the matching issue with the existing handle though kind was not aware of that. The after spray paint form of the door looks really wonderful. Anyway, for any type of painting issue house painter in Thornhill might be a good support the guys in that area I think.

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