Tuesday 2 October 2012

First World Problems...which door handles should we choose?

Neal-the-Architect has survived his family holiday to Queensland and is back on board. Unfortunately, not yet on board are the estimates of the driveway designs from the civil engineers.
So in the meantime, Viktoria & the Android have been amusing themselves by discussing the big issues. Like what doorhandles we should get. Once we get the costings in for the driveway, we could well decide that all we can afford is a tent and therefore the concept of doorhandles will be moot in any event.
Until such time, we are content to argue about doorhandles.
As we are quite tactile creatures, we could both agree that the handles had to be something that was pleasant to hold. Because of the style of house, we could also both agree that we would like the doorhandles to be finished in old rubbed-bronze or a 'rust' finish.
However, after narrowing our choices down to one favourite handle each - that was actually ALL we could agree on. Now, dear jury, we are going to throw some ideas out there and see if anyone else has any preferences.
Just to put it all in context, we are attaching a picture of the idea of what the finished house will look like, in terms of style, that is:
Finished house to be in a similar interior style to this...
The future house will eventually have a fairly robust, missile-silo-type bunker with some timber features.
Originally, we fell absolutely in love with the work produced by French company Bouvet. All their handles are hand-forged (read: heinously expensive) and extremely beautiful because each one is unique. Here's a couple of the ones we liked from Bouvet:
However, at around $100 - $150 per handle, not per set, even though we will have only about 5 internal doors, it seems to be a little on the extravagant side to our way of thinking (and budget).
So now we are looking at some by Emtek. They are similar in style, but not hand made (and therefore nowhere near the price of the Bouvet handles). We would be looking at around $85 a set. These are the two that we like.... well, Viktoria likes one of them and the Android likes the other...

Handle A: Lafayette by Emtek
 
Handle B: Harrisburg by Emtek

The finish on these will actually look more like the "rusty" one of the Bouvet handles, but I couldn't find a picture with the correct finish to show you.



So....which one of the Emtek handles do you prefer? Handle A? Or Handle B?

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