How To Decorate With Vintage Door Knobs

I bet you have a bunch of old junk! No need to be embarrassed. If you’re older and have lived in the same house or apartment forever, you’ve built up a supply of junk. It just happens.

No need for that old stuff to sit in a drawer or hang out in the closet. Go through your drawers (lol), and I bet one of those pieces will speak to you. Pull it out and find a use for it. 

I bought the vintage toaster at an auction for $3. I know the other folks at the auction were wondering what in the world I was going to do with it. Well, I had no idea. I just knew I liked it.

Once I got it home I sat it on a shelf and noticed my junk stash of old door knobs. Some of the knobs are from our house and some I collected at the junk store. You might have some old door knobs?

The toaster and the knobs were drab and dirty. I oiled them with Hemp Oil and then shined them up. You can do the same thing with soap and water and then wax or furniture polish. Work with what you have.

I added simple artificial flower stems and created this display. Who knew door knobs could double as flower “vases”.

I added a little color behind this display with a small landscape oil painting. 

The toaster works perfectly as a display for the chippy door knobs. It is rusty in spots, but now it’s clean rust, and the rust just adds character.

But wait, I have a second project I created using my old door knobs. 

Supplies: thick wire (mine came from a yard sale), vintage door knob with rod, wire cutters, needle nose pliers, and wax of some kind.

Since the door knob I used was all rusty and so was the wire, I waxed them. The wax keeps the rust from rubbing off on your hands and other things. It also adds a nice patina to the rust.

To make the wire holder, cut a length of wire, thread it through the bottom hole, and twist it around the rod with needle-nose pliers. Make sure it’s good and tight.

Stick the rod back in the knob and you’re done! Unless you look at it and think it is a little one-dimensional. Mine didn’t look right, so I cut more wire and did a little more twisting and…..

Now it looks much better.

It can actually be displayed on its own. Or add two or three family photos.

It makes a great recipe card holder. What do you think of these ideas?