Facts About Antique Cabinet Hardware

Antiques are priceless, invaluable because of their uniqueness

, condition, age and other reasons. They are collector's items. Antique cabinet hardware provides to ones house a sense to satisfaction, history and charm. 'Jewelry of the home' is how one company explains antique cabinet hardware. But if an antique cabinet is not looked after well it can end up looking similar to another cabinet; it would shed all its glory if not tended to properly.

Do you know that one of the most popular antique cabinet hardware is Metal? Yes metal is a shiny product as you know and as you are thinking, it may just take the authenticity away from the product. But the metal is dulled to be able to keep with the product and to give it with an antique look. Antique cabinet hardware also include materials such as, genuine crystals, wood, large faux, porcelain, milk glass or dense colored glass.

Antique cabinet hardware contains smooth metal drawer pulls. And some these pulls are carved intricately. Edged in these beautiful designs are also stories. Stories? You may ask. Antiques have a historical past, a story that comes along with the item. These little yet intricate carving may tell a story of the location, person or even the back grounds in which these antique cabinet hardware was made. One thing we tend to forget is that each item made by man, may it be small or may it be big, has a story. Sometimes these are very evident; sometimes one needs to look in a little tougher! Some antique cabinet hardware such as the wood and porcelain kinds may also carry paintings, precised art works. Paintings and detailed art works are a characteristic of porcelain works.

Getting back to antique cabinet hardware, latches are known to be very elaborate. The turn and slide style latches are proving to be more popular than the more typical ones. Latch styles are said to array from Victorian designs and era to heavy Gothic.

If you are trying to replace antique cabinet hardware in the market nowadays, it might prove to be a hard task. Designs such as bail pulls with fancy plates or tear drop shaped handles are not a quite common sight now. Yet this doesn't mean that they are not available at all. It would just mean that you would need to do a little bit more hunting!

Replacing antique cabinet hardware is not an expensive project, if you know where to look and when to look. Though original hardware may not always be accessible, you can make an item look like an antique. All it requires is a few comparable looking worn out parts or hardware. But make sure that the parts that you are hoping to add do not clash with you antique cabinet. Keep in mind also that if you replace antique cabinet hardware with makeshift parts, if done properly, it may even escape the most educated eye!

by: Razile Flagg...

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