{"id":17581,"date":"2019-02-03T11:45:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T19:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=17581"},"modified":"2019-02-03T11:52:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T19:52:36","slug":"replacing-doorknobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2019\/02\/03\/replacing-doorknobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacing doorknobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_17586\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 235px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/IMG_1609.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/IMG_1609-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Old round brass doorknob\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17586\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Old round brass doorknob<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>About four months ago, I went to Orchard Supply Hardware for their going-out-of-business sale and bought (among other things) three sets of Kwikset lever-style door handles. (Specifically, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwikset.com\/products\/details\/door-levers\/405ba-11p-smt.aspx\">Balboa style, in Venetian Bronze finish<\/a>.) There was nothing wrong with the brass-ish round knobs on the doors in my house, but I found these levers much prettier.<\/p>\r\n<p>But when I got them home, I quailed at the thought of replacing the doorknobs. It felt like a big project, with all sorts of ways it could go wrong. I wanted to wait until Kam was around so she could spot me, and fix things in case of disaster, but I never seemed to get around to this project when Kam was here. So the new levers sat on my loveseat, and later on my coffee table, for months, taunting me.<\/p>\r\n<p>Yesterday, somehow I decided it was time to deal with them. With much trepidation, I opened the package, read the instructions, and embarked on the hazardous venture\u2026<\/p>\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_17587\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 235px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/IMG_1611.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/IMG_1611-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"New door lever\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17587\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">New door lever<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>\u2026And fifteen minutes later, I had successfully replaced a set of doorknobs. It was <em>amazingly<\/em> easy. The only things I needed that weren\u2019t in the package were a Phillips screwdriver and a measuring tape, both of which were in my toolbox. (And the measuring tape was only to confirm that two parts of the door matched standard door measurements.)<\/p>\r\n<p>The second and third doorknob replacements took me only about ten minutes each.<\/p>\r\n<p>I\u2019ve long known that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2017\/06\/21\/fixing-the-garbage-disposal\/\">Things Are Made Of Stuff<\/a>, and I\u2019ve even dealt specifically with door hardware before. But somehow it hadn\u2019t occurred to me that replacing doorknobs would be this easy.<\/p>\r\n<p>It was exciting and fun and happy-making and very satisfying to be able to do these few simple steps and end up with my doors looking prettier than they used to, and still working well.<\/p>\r\n<p>(Attached photos show my bedroom door before and after the change.)<\/p>\r\n<p>I should add that a great deal of the credit goes to Kwikset, which did a great job of designing the levers, creating the instructions, and including all the needed materials in the package. (I imagine that other door-level manufacturers do similarly well; part of the excellence-of-design here was improved by standardization.) More on that to follow in a separate post.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-are-made-of-stuff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17581"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17590,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17581\/revisions\/17590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}