Unless you live in a new home, you may be troubled with the residue of years of previous owners and tenants — translation: layers and layers of paint, old wallpaper, etc. If your home's hardware has borne the brunt of this, you've come to the right place. You can easily bring your wall hooks and doorknobs to their former glory on your stovetop! Just mix a quart of water with four Read more

Since it's Small Changes month, I'm a huge proponent of any simple fix-ups that make a huge visual impact on a room. One of these is switching out your hardware, be it finials on your curtain rods and lamps, knobs or handles on your cabinets and drawers, shower curtain loops, switchplates, coat rack hooks, or the numbers on the front of your house. Particularly if you're renting, and have little Read more

Anthropologie has commissioned Nathalie Lété, a French artist who works in a variety of mediums (embroidery, ceramics, weaving, textile design, painting, and illustration), and is wildly popular in Japan, to design bedding and drawer pulls. It's no wonder the retailer, which does its best to seem oh-so-French, sought Lété out; her designs are ubiquitous in France, appearing on Designers Guild Read more

While I'm definitely a fan of Anthropologie's collection of drawer pulls, I've also recently discovered another delightful company specializing in drawer pulls, door handles, finials, and other hardware needed in your home. This company, TE-MA, has been owned and operated since 1991 by a family in Woodstock, NY. Most of the designs are original and about 90 percent of its products are produced Read more

Anthropologie.com has a new tool called the Hardware Store that allows you to test out their collection of drawer pulls in aquatic, glass, or ceramic styles on your choice of four dressers or cabinets, which most resembles yours. We all know how tempting the buckets upon buckets of drawer pulls in Anthropologie's stores can be, so it's a good barrier against unnecessary shopping. In my case, I'm Read more

If you live in an older home, you know that matching period-appropriate door knobs, drawer handles, and other important hardware is often a challenge. Enter the Charleston Hardware Company , which for the past eight years has specialized in antique hardware sales and restoration. Since their customers requested large numbers of matching pieces, they began collecting original antique patterns and Read more