Litra Hardware, Interior Door Handles
The market is well served by double glazing companies offering stylish looking doors to go with your new windows along with DIY or hardware supermarkets with aisles of new doors standing vertically and easy to view. In the same area you will find racks of handles in all kinds of shapes, sizes and colours. The trend these days (at least for many people, though definitely not all) is to search online for anything that they desire. But with interior door handles I would suggest that this is not necessarily the best way forward. You might well find a good selection if you search through enough websites but there is one thing missing with this method. You can't get that physical sensation of what the interior door handle actually feels like in your hand.
Style and quality will probably be the first elements you notice when shopping for interior door handles, provided of course that you are shopping in a well established retail outlet that specialises only in replacement doors and interior door handles. Many DIY outlets will have a selection of such items but the quality may not be what you are looking for. There are many choices of materials to choose from, pretty much dependent on where you want the interior door handle to be situated. You can select between brass, aluminium, wrought iron, chrome, nickel, stainless steel and pewter, plus of course different types of plastic and ceramic.
Styles will vary you might be looking for the contemporary look, maybe something a little more sophisticated or you just might want to fall back on the old classic and traditional styles. Almost any style of interior door handle that you can imagine will be available somewhere! The key thing to think about though is what you actually need the interior door handle for. It would be pointless to attach a handle that rotates or has a spring lever action to a cupboard door that simply needs to be pulled to be opened. You would probably best be advised to seek out a smaller, round shaped door knob for this purpose one that is comfortable to grip with the finger tips rather than a large handle or knob that requires the whole hand to grasp it.
It has to have smoothed, maybe rounded, edges so that it feels good in your hand. You won't want to feel rough or jagged edges on the part that has most hand contact and you can be confident that a good quality product will not have this problem. It also should be strong and durable to survive the many uses it might have every single day. It is easy to wear out the mechanism inside if you use that door constantly and a good quality interior door handle will help to extend the life of that mechanism if it is a good, strong fit inside.
Style and quality will probably be the first elements you notice when shopping for interior door handles, provided of course that you are shopping in a well established retail outlet that specialises only in replacement doors and interior door handles. Many DIY outlets will have a selection of such items but the quality may not be what you are looking for. There are many choices of materials to choose from, pretty much dependent on where you want the interior door handle to be situated. You can select between brass, aluminium, wrought iron, chrome, nickel, stainless steel and pewter, plus of course different types of plastic and ceramic.
Styles will vary you might be looking for the contemporary look, maybe something a little more sophisticated or you just might want to fall back on the old classic and traditional styles. Almost any style of interior door handle that you can imagine will be available somewhere! The key thing to think about though is what you actually need the interior door handle for. It would be pointless to attach a handle that rotates or has a spring lever action to a cupboard door that simply needs to be pulled to be opened. You would probably best be advised to seek out a smaller, round shaped door knob for this purpose one that is comfortable to grip with the finger tips rather than a large handle or knob that requires the whole hand to grasp it.
It has to have smoothed, maybe rounded, edges so that it feels good in your hand. You won't want to feel rough or jagged edges on the part that has most hand contact and you can be confident that a good quality product will not have this problem. It also should be strong and durable to survive the many uses it might have every single day. It is easy to wear out the mechanism inside if you use that door constantly and a good quality interior door handle will help to extend the life of that mechanism if it is a good, strong fit inside.
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