I've got a 1905 home and have been adding new mortise locksets on the new interior doors - I know the hunt to find the right hardware. There are two companies that make high quality interior mortise locksets that I've found - Nostalgic Warehouse is one and the other is Emtek. Both brands are carried at House of Antique Harware online. Rejuvention (http://www.rejuvenation.com/) also sells one of the brands - I believe the NostalgicWarehouse ones - and you can customize for interior privacy, dummy, etc and choose finish, knob, locking type (latch, key) backplate. But the price reflects that ($150-ish per set). Some other sites carry the Nostalgic Warehouse hardware and you should search for that online once you figure out what backplate style you need at a cheaper price. For bathrooms, I prefer the latch type without the keyhole, it's easier than inserting a skeleton key. In the end -- $100+ for each set was cost prohibitive for me since I'm doing a complete remodel and an addition so continued searching and lucked out finding the "Prime Line" series at Homedepot.com at around $30 a set. Yes, there is a difference in quality, but it's what I could afford at the moment so it's worked ok so far. They are all skeleton keys and I've got the keys hanging on the knobs with ribbon like others have mentioned. Here's a picture of my new doors and the Prime Line set with my Dad testing it after he mortised it out. This post was edited by kjo_tx on Thu, Jul 11, 13 at 10:53

I'd like a zap 'n lock too! my sister has 3 sliding glass doors, garage door, 2 mostly glass doors and a huge wooden front door. they all 'ding' if anyone opens them. she does have security hook up so not sure how that works at night. spect she still has to lock 'em all and set the 'thingy'. actually, she's behind locked gates too... she only unlocks a door if she's expecting someone - usually me. I have a gate opener! my gun is always loaded! it would give me a second or 2 to get it tho. it's always within about 3' at night. I like the idea that if one of the kids/gkids were here (not real likely with little gkids) that I could lock the door tho. i didn't bother with the deadbolt on it. the other doors got deadbolt's with the flipper on the inside. that's needed for me if I need to get out fast AND there is no glass area close to the doors. tho someone could break in thru a window and flip it unlocked. I do think they'd pick somewhere else tho - with dogs barking here... besides - they could just open the patio door! I found some satin nickel I liked - it didn't look like the satin nickel at home depot. that looked like it was coated in a thick clear varnish. weird thing is I was looking at something online today and they even said the satin nickel was covered in clear varnish! ugh! i bought the curved lever for my bedroom and the hall bath and 2 cheaper ones with a straight levers in satin chrome for the back 2 bedrooms. the local hdwr I went to the other morning only had 2 deadbolts and the 2 curved lever handles so went to another local hardware in the afternoon and found another deadbolt and 2 more handles that I like better than the curved ones... dang. I do still need a few more lever handles so will go back to the 2nd hardware for those i think. i was thinking that the security screen doors might look weird with a curved handle on them so had the guy just put the 2 straight ones i'd bought for the back bedrooms on the security doors. the metal color is a bit off to the deadbolt but it was better to have handles on the security doors than the back bedrooms at this time. might switch them around when i get the new handles tho. I do like the look of the stainless. at hardware #1 I found a stainless kitchen faucet i liked for 118.00! imagine that! and they have a bathroom sink faucet for 88.00 I think it was. stainless also and 1 handle. I couldn't believe I saw some I like in SS for that little! one is Delta and 1 is PPhister I think.

"I can't find anything to buy in Home Depot that matches the thickness of a 1 3/4 inch door. " Use multiple pieces (use a good waterproof glue to join the pieces like Titebond II or III (NOT just typical 'carpenter's glue or 'wood' glue) before you use them to plug the hole. If the stack is a little thicker than needed you can sand or chisel off the excess after the plug is in place. A wood chisel used bevel down will do a good job at shaving it flat, ad then a little sanding. Two pieces of 1x lumber (3/4 in net) and a filler piece of 3/4 in plywood between them would stack to 11.75, or you can just omit the 1/4 in plywood and fill the 1/8 inch on each side with filler.

Ah. Gotcha! https://www.build.com/nostalgic-warehouse-meamea-1cyl-238-na/s1304366?uid=3099374&source=gg-gba-pla_3099374!c1045156223!a53024520444!dm!ng&gclid=CjwKCAjw8_nXBRAiEiwAXWe2yU1Tbltz7C6ANK3REqfMcWZ9VHIpwt8HoZaxOk-ODgFGn1gEef27vBoCaE4QAvD_BwE