Does faucet HAVE to match hardware??
sippy_south
15 years ago
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Does the potfiller have to match the faucet?
Comments (14)Ours will be totally different. They are across the room from each other. My range is against a stone wall (the back of our fpl). I wanted the potfiller to look like an outside spigot. I chose the item below. It will also have exposed plumbing braced against the stone. My kitchen is all neutral - no color no pattern. I am using antique brass hardware on a built in hutch, and polished nickel on some cabs, and orb on my "general store counter". My range is matte black with nickel and brass trim. My faucets are nickel and wood. Not too much matches in our house! Of course we are an extreme situation. I would say if your filler is on the same wall as your faucet, they should be in the same finish and style. PS I know my filler is not a filler and some will say it wont work because it does not extend. However in my old kitchen I had a filler for 8 years and my experience was that I just used the nearest burner when I wanted to use the potfiller. ALmost never had a case where I needed to extend it. Also, my new range is open on all sides so its not hard to reach the pf in a rare circumstance where I want to do something different... Here is a link that might be useful: my...See MoreDoes lighting hardware have to match cabinet hardware?
Comments (5)Sorry, ORB = oil-rubbed bronze! :) Our backdoor hardware is oil-rubbed bronze, which I hated at the start of our remodel, but which actually looks more at home now that it's done--it plays off of the black fixtures, I think. (We also replaced the door with a stained rather than painted door, which helped a lot too--so rather than "random finishes," we have the nickel on the cabinets, the ORB on the stained door, the brass on the painted doors/windows, and the black on the lights and accents (stove grates are black here too). Plus I totally forgot about the stainless hood, so yeah, we are not sticklers for matching finishes! (We do also have an older house, though, which I think gives us a little more freedom for finishes to vary than a newer house where everything was matchy-matchy to start with--even our windows and doors with original hardware vary in that some of the hardware and hinges have been painted over and are now "white" and some of the hardware is still brass.) Our kitchen is not open to any room except our breakfast nook, so we did match the fixture finishes there. But I don't think we needed to do that, necessarily. I would wait on your dining room fixture till the kitchen is done and see how you feel about matching versus not at that point....See MoreDo all powder room hardwares' finish have to match with faucet's
Comments (3)I have a vessel sink bathroom with orb faucet, antique chrome tp holder, chrome trim on the toilet, and then an old toilet tank with verdigris and brass. So maybe I am not the person to ask! I think if you are going at all rustic, and the rest of the palette is muted, mixing is fine. You need to be more careful in a modern space or a very formal space or with "near misses", ie things that look like you tried to match but failed....See MoreDoes hardware have to match in entire house?
Comments (14)Suzy - I have the same problem...my house is traditional colonial, all the current hardware is brass. (Doors, lights, etc.)Plus my decorating style when I did the living room, next to the kitchen, has definite golden undertones.My new cabinets are white traditional raised panel. I've flipped back and forth on lights and hardware and so forth, driving myself crazy. Do I match the brass? And coordinate with the living room? Or go more current with polished nickel and coordinate the style? Ay yi yi. My current thought is to use hardware that is "pearl nickel" or "#15 Satin Pearl" (Hickory Hardware & Anne at Home, respectively).The slight pearl hint on the hardware looks rather silver-gilt like, and magically picks up the golden tones in the adjacent room. You do need to get a sample, though, it looks different in real life than on the computer monitor. The tricky part is that there aren't that many manufacturers with the finish, and each one names it differently. You can find lights that have the silver gilt gold finish as well. (named differently by every manufacturer!) Just a thought, hope it helps!...See Moreboringmama
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