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What Makes A Good Quality Door Handle?

When you're looking to improve the look of your home, your door furniture plays a larger role than many truly understand, with pull handles or door knobs being the options open to you.

However, if you're wanting to achieve the best possible look, you'll need to invest in some good quality door handles - but what does that mean? What do we mean by good-quality door handles? What do the best external and interior door handles look like?

A Wide Range of Top-Quality Door Knobs & Handles

When you look at the Door Handle Store online store, you get a close-up view of what the very best door hardware on the market looks like. However, we want to make the job of choosing from the many door handles for external and internal doors easier.

In a moment, we'll delve into how to find the right door furniture for your needs, as 'good-quality' external and internal door handles come in many shapes and forms! However, first, let's take a look at the importance of choosing the right material and style.

Why Choosing The Right Door Handles Matters

The looking for the perfect door handle products for your requirements, they must be selected carefully, but not just for reasons of design. Of course, the decor of the property in question matters, but it's not the only important factor.

In addition to fitting in with your chosen design scheme, you also have to think about other things, such as whether it's private property or in public settings. That's because there may be a need for your door handles to be fire rated.

Your Choice Needs to Suit The Room they're installed in

Another consideration you need to make is one of function, as your new door handles need to suit their purposes. For instance, if you're buying hardware for doors in a public area, are they easy enough for those with disabilities to use?

So long as your choice matches the intended purpose for your door handles, you're then free to explore the different style and finish options. Now we have that cleared up, let's now look at the many quality door handle options out there.

Contemporary/Modern Door Handles

There are so many options of high-quality door handle available, that we have to break them down into categories. In this section, we look at contemporary/modern door handles that offer high impact when it comes to modern homes.

Polished Chrome Door Handles

One of the most impactful types of door hardware for modern interiors is polished chrome door handles. This high-gloss option may need regular polishing to remove those troublesome finger marks, but there's nothing quite like chrome handles.

You get a selection of styles within the category of lever handles, including:

• Cecilia On Rose Lever Handles

• Marvel Lever Handles

• Berkley Bathroom Handles

• Kemsley Lever Handles

• Mocho Door Handles

Each of these highly-polished options offers a distinctly modern and clean look that complements pretty much any type of modern decor. The smooth polished finish is popular with Hiatt customers for this reason and more.

Black Door Furniture

Another great look for mortice door knobs, rim door knob designs (rim knobs sit on the outside of rim locks that sit on the door's surface), and rose door handle products is matt black door hardware. Delivering a finish that's great for contemporary interiors, there's again a range of great styles on offer with black handles, such as:

• Knurled Mayfair Handles (Offering better grip)

• Syclla Lever on Rose Handles

• Esquire Lever on Back Plate

• Elpis Lever Latch Door Handles

• Goodrich Lever Handle products

In the world of interior design, black offers a balancing and grounding effect that defines the space. when you buy any of the lever handle products shown above, you get the perfect option that delivers a truly contemporary style.

Satin Nickel Interior Door Handles

If polished chrome or black door lever handles don't do it for you, then why not consider another option - satin nickel? Providing a cool, low-maintenance satin finish, they also offer wide appeal for interior doors, with styles including:

• Brora Lever Latch Door handles

• Berkley Lever Door Handles

• Wave Lever Door Handles

• Minerva Lever Door Handles

• Mocha Lever Lock Door Handles

Whether combined with a rim lock on your front door or used for your bathroom door, satin nickel offers one of the best internal door options available for modern homes. Whether you choose this or any of the other options in your final decision, it can come down to personal preference.

Door Handles for Period Properties

Now we've covered some great contemporary handles for modern homes, we turn our attention to properties with traditional styles, which include some beautiful options.

Victorian-Era Door Handles

Spanning the mid-19th Century to the turn of the 20th, Victorian period decor is known for opulence, as well as an abundance of textiles and ornaments - so, all things grand! The great news is that there are some stunning options for traditional design schemes.

They include:

• Victorian Scroll Latch Handles

• Victorian Straight Lever Handles

• Victorian Scroll Euro Lock Handles

• Victorian Privacy Lever Handle

Available in some wonderful finishes that include antique brass, and polished brass that perfectly complement the geometric shapes and patterns you get with Victorian-era flooring. Each handle connects to the style, offering a natural flow to your home.

Edwardian-Era Door Handles

Moving a little forward in history now, we look at another era with distinctly traditional properties. Internal doors from the period needed to suit the cheerful, elegant, and fresh style of the age, and it's an era in which the humble door knob came to prominence.

Some of the great options available include:

• Edwardian fluted door knobs

• Brushed Nickel door knobs

• Rounded Centre door knobs

• Cottage door knobs

• Burcott Swirl Brass door knobs

When used in period properties or even those with a traditional theme, the different styles of the Edwardian period centres around round handles, but do include the odd lever on rose product or two.

Generally speaking, however, for traditional properties from this era, door knobs tended to represent the most practical option and were used not only in the downstairs areas but also in other rooms throughout the house.

Georgian Era Door Handles

Next, we look at one of the most distinctive types of door furniture that belong to the Edwardian period. During this time, there were a number of popular styles around, but perhaps the most notable of the time were those with the roped edging.

Increasingly popular with period properties, there are a number of options available within this style, allowing you to choose door handles from:

• Georgian Scroll Door Handles in Polished Brass

• Georgian Scroll Door Handles in Polished Chrome

• Georgian Scroll Door Handles in Antique Brass

• Georgian Scroll Door Handles in Gold

Primarily speaking, when choosing door handles for most properties from the Georgian period, you'll be looking at lever handles on backplate, however, another popular choice - especially in high-traffic areas - is beehive door knobs.

Offering another highly distinctive style, beehive reeded door knobs that come in brushed nickel, polished chrome, antique brass, and more.

A Massive Range of High-Quality Door Hardware to Choose From

As we've seen in this article, there's a truly stunning array of door handles or door knobs for you to use for your home improvement needs.

Whether you own a period property or a brand new build on a new housing estate, the options are wide and varied, with a massive range of options (including door accessories) for you to get stuck into from the Hiatt online shop.

Just remember what we said about the function of the products being just as important as style, as they need to work correctly, as well as offer improved aesthetics for your home.

That's it from us for this time. We hope you've found our blog useful and the door furniture covered inspires you to choose the right door handle combination for your needs.

We hope you'll join us again soon for more from the home of premium quality door furniture, door locks, and more.