Remember a few weeks ago when we shared our door + hardware update I said to match your door hardware throughout the house for a good flow? I still totally recommend that, but also…

Rules were meant to be broken

Typically where I break from having identical door hardware everywhere is when we get to the exterior (front, back, garage) doors since they serve a very different function and are not usually a part of the same set, especially if you have glass interior knobs like we do. (Which we did for our recent hardware update on our front door.) To keep consistent, in most cases I recommend keeping the finish the same – in our case matte black – between interior and exterior hardware to help tie them together even though they’re likely not from the same exact set/family … though I could also kind of break that “rule” with a truly beautiful standout brass front door fixture or something. (I would be less likely to do something ultra fabulous and rule-breaky on the back door, and certainly on the garage door since that’s seen even less, but ask me again in a month or something and we very well could be updating those two doors to something fabulous too, ha!)

Our new, vintage-inspired clear glass door knobs that are now throughout our house.

With our current house I bent my “rule” for matching interior door hardware just a little bit on our double French doors that lead into the office. But I thought you just said they all need to match? Hear me out…

The office doors are our only set of double doors in the house, the only interior doors that have glass, and, being off of the entry way, I thought it would be a good place for a little bit of a mini moment right when you walk in the door. So to keep with the look and feel of the rest of our knobs but give this area a little something extra, I opted for the same octagon-shape, same glass material and the same dark metal finish and rose/mounting plate style as the knob above … but went with a green glass knob instead.

Like before, it’s a vast improvement and completely different style than what we used to have.

I mean, look at how beautiful that green glass is when the light hits it from the side.

And that starburst design you can see through the middle? So in love with it.

You can see in the photo below how the green knob on the office’s french door (left) and the clear knob on the closet door (right) don’t match, but they still go and work together in the same space.

The view from the front door, with the office on the left and entry + living space on the right.

In fact, you may not have even noticed, but this is a totally different knob made by a totally different company than the rest of the clear glass knobs used throughout the house, but they work together because they’re the same overall octagon shape, same size, same high-gloss glass knob style and same dark, matte metal hardware color. You can really only tell they’re different when you’re waaaay close to them.

Both are beautiful on their own and yet still work together in the same space.

GET THE LOOK

Clear Glass Knobs
- Privacy Bed/Bath (with lock) | Passage (no lock) | Dummy (false knob, just for show)
Green Glass Knobs
We used a 2.375” passage knob and a dummy knob for our french doors. (It also comes in a 2.75” version, and as a locking privacy knob.)
- Passage (no lock) | Dummy (false knob, just for show) | Privacy Bed/Bath (with lock)