Mixing metals easy with tips

Want to incorporate brass or other gold metal pieces into your decor, but feeling timid? Here are some tips.

• Treat the task like adding a color to a work of art, Wanda Lee of PC Hardware in Little Rock suggests. You're simply creating a dual or tri-color look by adding brass -- "a touch to give it just a pop," she says. She has customers who, for instance, have brass accessories adorning their front door, but have bronze or satin nickel accents inside.

• Start out with such accents as kitchen and bath fixtures (faucets) and hardware (doorknobs and towel hooks), suggests North Little Rock interior designer Terry Williams.

• Doorknobs and drawer or cabinet pulls are a good place to start if you're on a budget, says Martha Cross, also of PC Hardware. She cites some examples: Emtek champagne bronze door pulls, $9.90 each, and companion cabinet knobs, $6.75 each. Cross also mentions golden bronze pulls, in antique brass by Amerock, only $4.31 apiece. "It's affordable, if you want to change the look" of your accessories, she says, especially if you want to get away from the inexpensive builder-grade attachments.

HomeStyle on 08/22/2015

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