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Friday, July 29, 2011

Repurposing!

In my room I found that I didn't like the small wooden pulls on the bi-fold closet doors (I'm not fond of the doors either but they'll do for awhile).  I had purchased a new doorknob set for my door and they wouldn't work with the huge mess the previous owners made and hid behind contractor's grade stainless steel knobs.

I decided to get creative.

I took the wooden knobs off the closet doors and found that the glass knobs required a large through-the-door bolt to connect to each other.  Well, that wouldn't work on the bifold doors.  I didn't want to drill holes for bolts for the glass knobs so I took the screws from the wooden knobs, reversed them and used liquid metal solder/lock stuff to inset the screws into the glass knobs.

Once those set, I put the knobs on the bi-fold doors and used the wooden knobs on the inside on the original screws.  End result - Victorian like knobs on my bi-fold doors - unique and somewhat stylish.

Its odd, the green on the doors is the wall color and isn't as dark as it shows in the pictures.






Original knobs




New knobs with screws now liquid set





New knobs on closet doors to fit the Neo-Victorian/modern style of the room.

1 comment:

  1. okay - this didn't work. One liquid welded screw held, the other didn't. I had to resort to reproduction door pulls.

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