At Architectural Classics, we are all about the details. After all, you could fudge through with plain door handles from any old shop in your home …but, fair enough, you don’t want to! We don’t either. These knob notes are all about the details and subtleties as well. They are modeled on the Victorian era, so the colours, the style and the clothing that the characters are all wearing is from the mid-1800s or so. They are a great way to fit your accessories in with any ‘style’ home from the 1700s to late 1800s though.

One of the subtleties you’ll find in these knob notes though, is that they actually have sense of humour which is quite un-Victorian! They start off innocently enough: “Be Home Late”, “Be Right Back”, “Shhh … Baby’s Sleeping”, and so on. There is one for just about every occasion, even when you only the unfunny ones! I started lifting my eyebrow, and dusting off my modern morals about what type of underwear you have on having no bearing on your role in life, etc, when I saw the ones like “Caution! Wet Floor”, “Clothes in Dryer”, and “Dinner in Oven”, showing pleasingly domesticated and dutiful child-like mothers going about their housework etc. Meanwhile, the notes depicting men all said “Went Golfing”, “Gone Fishing” etc. I was on the verge of actually feeling angry about them, when I started to realise that there was actually a bit sarcasm in that humour! Many of them do have traditional messages, with traditional pictures to go with them, and if that’s your taste they’ll look very nice in your house. It is only that they don’t confine themselves to traditional appeal – they also have a few very un-Victorian messages on them, like “Disaster Area”, with a couple of kids on it … I would guess for a kid’s room (mine would be hung on the front door though!). Yet I can’t imagine a Victorian housewife admitting that she let her house be overrun by kids and their mess and she hadn’t cleaned it up immediately, spanked them and sent them to bed! There is also a “Wipe Your Paws”, with a picture of a girl and a basket full of kittens… I am assuming that they don’t expect feline visitors to the house to knock, then dutifully wipe their actual paws before entering, so it must be referring to the guests’ feet as paws. Most un-Victorian! A great modern twist. The “Do Not Disturb! Genius at Work” one revealed a bit more of their sarcasm as well – with a picture of a boy playing a flute, and a dog who is howling (presumably in misery!), this could be well used on the entrance to a workshop out the back as well.

So, check them out at here at plannersguide.com - whether your taste runs to the traditional, or the more modern traditions of sarcasm and humour, there’ll be something to suit you!

          

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