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Color Splash: How to Easily Add Color To Your Home
Two popular trends in home design may seem like polar opposites, but have a common design challenge. Anyone with experience designing both, knows modern interiors and rustic interiors face a similar dilemma - the tendency to being void of color.Whether you love stark white modern interiors or the warm, rich look of a rustic home, you have probably come across the challenge of how to inject some color to your design scheme. Luckily, Emtek has pondered this dilemma and come up with a solution for
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10th Sep 2015
Distressing A Wood Entry Door
Love the look of a rustic, weathered door with heavy iron hardware? I do too! In honor of our new line of Agave Ironworks door and home hardware which you can now buy at CompleteHomeHardware.com and in our Franklin, TN showroom, I set off on a project to weather a brand new wood door. It will make the perfect backdrop for these distinctive, hand forged wrought iron pieces which I can’t wait to share with Complete Home Hardware customers.The faux “weathered” look is easy to achieve. I started wit
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18th May 2015
Decorative Register Covers For Your Floor
Choosing Register Vent Covers for Your Home
Toronto Interior Designers & Decorators AM Dolce Vita via Houzz
We all know that high-end hardware can give cabinets an instant upgrade, but did you know there’s a way to bring a high-end touch to your floors? Decorative floor grates are an easy to install, inexpensive way to give your home a high-end upgrade with only a minimal effort and budget.
Decorative register covers and coordinated cold air returns and ceiling grates can compleme
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13th Mar 2015
Choosing Levers Vs. Doorknobs
When it comes to building a new home or renovating an existing one, there are many hardware decisions to be made. Here is one that often leaves home owners scratching their heads; door knobs or levers? Which is the right choice for the doors in your home? Follow along to get a grip on the important factors that go into making this decision.
Choose Knobs for Period Style
Traditional Bathroom by San Diego Design-Build Firms Stewart Thomas Design-Build
If you
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25th Feb 2015
Here We Chrome Again!
We provided chrome hardware for 5 houses last week. That's almost as many as we did all of last year. Maybe not, but we're getting a ton of requests for polished chrome door knobs and US26 finish hinges these days. Oil rubbed bronze and satin nickles finishes have reined supreme in homes, for about the past 10 years. Earlier today I wondered why more and more people seem to be drawn to the shiny chrome finish. I thought maybe it's because polished chrome is like the
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22nd Aug 2014