Replacing brass doorknobs with bronze door knobs
Door knobs are expensive!
Our house is full of brass, and we hate it. We started by replacing all the outlet covers with nice venetian bronze plates that I found at Lowe's. The darker colors really go well with the decor.
Now, we've decided to replace all the brass doorknobs. Of course, this also means replacing the brass hinges as well.
We found some inexpensive Kwikset knobs on ebay, 6 passage and 6 privacy knob sets, for $150. I found 10 matching dummy knobs for our double-door closets in each bedroom and for the french doors to the TV room... about $75 for those. 60 bronze hinges for $0.99 each plus shipping, which also worked out to about $75. I'm one privacy knob short so I'll probably just pick that up at home depot for $20... which will bring the total cost of this little project to about $320.
Of course, it could've been worse.
There are 20 interior doors. Home Depot sells the bronze hinges in sets of 3 with screws for $9... that's $192 with tax. The passage knobs are $15, the privacy knobs are $20, and the dummy knobs are $10... so for my counts, with tax, that's $353.
Total savings by going the ebay route: $225, or about 41%.
Not bad!