No, we aren’t talking about getting rid of everything in the room … just what to add to your rooms once you’ve chosen the all-important door handles, and the somewhat important paint and furniture! This isn’t a course in imagination (if we could teach that, we’d be millionaires already) … but we do provide a framework for things you might want to add to give your traditional home or your modern home a bit of personality. Comfy Bottoms Where are you going to sit when you are in this particular room? Adding pillows and throw-blankets to a room, especially the living...

If you were one of those people that always imagined fairies at the bottom of the garden when you were a child … or that is fascinated with the physics and art of the stars and planets … you will be enchanted by the range of products from our newest supplier, Les Verreries de Brehat! Verreries de Brehat produce some absolutely stunning door knobs, that are quite different to anything else on the site. Each one is blown glass, and they include patterns from the fantastic, to the ethereal, to the classy, to the magical. The studio of Verreries de Brehat is on a small French island - a...

You roof must be the most important part of your home … there are plenty of dwellings to be found worldwide without walls (though the inhabitants might live some place that is closer to a tropical paradise than your own home!), but a home without a roof is just not a home! Who wants to be rained on while they sleep? Certainly not me … but if that floats your boat, I’ll not comment As such, we are looking at interior decorating of ceilings in this ‘Out with the Old’ feature. There are so many homes that have boring old white ceilings, that you will now find ‘Ceiling...

It is often said that the best ideas are the simplest ones … and this is true of one the simple but marvelous ideas of our new suppliers, Pasini Metals Production. We recently began stocking the PASS/Move into Design range, a range of different and very modern handles createdby Daniela Seminara for Pasini Metals Productions, a company that has been producing brass handles for over 40 years. The old brass knob or lever certainly gets a new lease of life in the PASS range - the focus of innovation here is not so much the look of the handle, but the function. The French certainly created handles...

As you would have realised if you are doing a traditional renovation on your home … creating a whole new look for your most significant investment involves a little more than just choosing new doorknobs! (Although, of course, that is the most important part!). The second decision you’ll have to make when doing a traditional renovation, after the lever handles versus door knobs conundrum, is what color scheme you’ll have in your home. Here we look at some general guidelines and some inspiration for period style homes. One of the first things you need to consider when you are looking...

Now here is a unique and unusual door handle! It doubles as a bell, although the sound it makes is a little piercing … and the door owners hereby absolve themselves of any and all liabilities arising from injury from using said door bell. Yyaaaaooooowww! Photo credits: Door Sitter by Margaret Nissen

Yes, by the end of this blog you will berate me for it being totally irrelevant to door knobs … but as with the Door County Fish Boil post, how could we resist with a title like this?!The title is actually courtesy of West Seattle blog, where a lady named Deana wrote in to let them know about her noteless-kob and tree story. She came home on April Fool’s Day to find a tree had been planted in her nature strip (‘parking strip’ in the States). Shock, horror! That’s just disgusting and wrong. Whoever had the idea of letting trees out in public? Anyway, she managed to find a flag half a...

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We love old stuff here at Architectural Classics. We may have told you that once or twice! We also think, though, that new stuff can be just as exciting … especially if that new stuff is old stuff. Confused? Well, I’m actually talking about doing period  style renovations. Ah, it all makes sense now!! This will be the first of a series of articles on renovating your period style home – some random information gems, tips and hints, and guidelines. This week, as is often the case in life, we look at why sometimes to get something, you have to go back to nothing. Or, as a wise old Muppet in...

Hanging doors is a tricky job, right? It is often held up as an example of something that is always outsourced to a professional, even for long-term renovators. So, installing a door that is pre-hung should be a piece of cake … (Ouch! ) [Low feminine growling noise] (Oh, for f***’s sake!) (Right, where’s the chain saw?) Hee hee! Here are a few tips to save you the frustration – it is amusing to read, but not so amusing to experience! If you’ve bought a pre-hung door already, hopefully you have one that is handed the correct way; that is, it swings the way that you want it to. It is not...