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do interior door handles have to match? custom build

last year

Doing a new build.
I have extremely large pella whole wall slider door in family room and French door in dining room. The handles are black on both ends here. My front door is all black with black handle. So all exterior doors are black handles.

For my interior doors I am doing a custom door
Such as this attachment.

For the interior doors , I can either make them black handles and backplate or polished nickle handles. See attached.

I really really love the polished nickle color. Styles are same in both Color’s. Black I’m being told to do by designer and carpenter because it’s trendy and my other 3 doors exterior are black handles.

But not a fan of black on interior doors.

Is it ok to keep the remaining 20-30 interior doors polished nickle?

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Mark Bischak, Architect

last year

The door handle police were disbanded in 2019 so you are safe.

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Comments (8)

dan1888
last year
You need to show the existing entrance and door wall handles. I think you could easily get a matching nickel handle for the entrance door.
Jen K (7b, 8a)
last year
Go with the polished nickel for all interior doors. If they're all matching little notice will be paid to the transition from exterior to interior. They're sleek and modern, like the black. I'm not a fan of polished chrome but your style choice calls for it. Have fun - it, and the doors, h gorgeous.
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cpartist
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Yes you can have different handles for interior doors versus exterior doors.
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
last year
LOL I would like to know the reason for such intricate interior doors in combo with sliders .
cpartist
last year
I would like to know the reason for such intricate interior doors in combo with sliders .

Most likely because they like them.
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Jeffrey R. Grenz, General Contractor
last year
You have your answer.

Nice but guessing those are pretty spendy also. Note they bore small non standard, different than 98% of custom homes so door shop needs to know ahead of time.
chicagoans
last year
Along the same lines... what about interior door handles vs kitchen cabinet pulls? I found a pull in a soft brushed brass that I really like (not too yellow/orange.) But I was thinking brushed nickel for interior door handles. (The brushed nickel cabinet pulls all just looked too grey to me, which I mind a lot less on a door for some reason; also not sure I want to commit to all brushed brass in the whole house.) For what it's worth, there are a back door and powder room door near the kitchen, but not it in; they're off a little vestibule.

Sorry for the hijack OP.

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