When we moved in our house three years ago, we noticed that there was an high variety of handles for the different doors.
Some are possibly the original ones, some other got exchange with more modern handles during the years. Why, it is a mistery, but nevertheless, the strangest handle we had got was in the bathroom we had just renovated.
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| Bathroom handle |
A part some slight issue in closing properly the door, the bathroom could not get locked (we had no key).
Additionally, we had problems with the handle in Oscar's bedroom door which was falling apart every now and hand and once removed, shown that the door was half broken around the handle itself.
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| Oscar's door handle |
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| Oscar's door handle |
We change Oscar's handle with one that is similar to most of our handles. We bought the new handle and the toilet lock mechanism at
Byggfabriken. We were a bit in hurry to change the handles because we would have guests for many weeks and we were expecting Oscar. We started to fix this in December 2013 and a first carpenter made the switch possible.
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| Detail of the new handle over the brittle wood in the door |
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| A new handle for Oscar's bedroom door (trycke pärlrand) |
However he refused to fix the brittle wood of Oscar's door, stating it was not possible and hence we asked a second opinion., During spring 2014 a second carpenter fixed the broken wood, although with some minor imperfections, which generated more work for us.
The work done by both carpenter was not completed or "perfect" and hence we decided to try to polish the approximative work.
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| The bathroom door handle is waiting for a beauty treatment. |
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| More tape |
It was finally few days ago, that I started to complete the job. We have been having tape over the metal details of the handle for over an year!
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| Treament is completed |
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| The toilet is free! |
For the bathroom door it was necessary to apply some putty around the handle and after polishing everything, I had to paint.
For Oscar's bedroom door instead, the problem was that some paint had been leaving drop marks. I had to scrape them off a little and after a light polishing I painted over. I was not able to get otherwise a decently homogeneous surface.
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| The door is finally repaired |
That was a door opener!
ReplyDeleteWow, that is a first class touch up! It was fun seeing that old door handle transform to a more polished modern one, and I am impressed with the results. I have always liked the look of older doors and locks, but their security is lacking. The way you tackled the problem gave me some ideas on mixing and matching.
ReplyDeleteWe actually bought something that is a replica of an old door handle. Nothing modern. :)
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