charm home: exciting find

1.25.2010

this weekend i was in murfreesboro, tennessee working on a nursery for my friends jenny and brock. you can see the work i previously did a few years ago on their home here. we got a lot accomplished but it’s not put together enough to take photos yet. i’ll be putting the finishing touches on harper’s nursery when i go back up there in about a month.

before i left town last week i picked up some cabinet knobs from anthropologie for the antique buffet that we are using as harper’s changing table. i also wanted to purchase some of the regular door knobs that they had, but they were really pricey. i knew that brock (jenny’s husband & soon-to-be harper’s father) would never give in to that idea. i’m having a hard enough time convincing him that we need to exchange the ceiling fan for a chandelier. i keep telling him that sweet little baby girls really need chandeliers in their rooms. i think he’ll give in before harper gets here. at least i hope he will.

anyway, back to the story. while we were out shopping for the nursery i came across a great find. we were at hobby lobby looking for some wide ribbon for the crib bedding, and i somehow ended up on a decorative hardware aisle. i’m not a regular at hobby lobby so this hardware aisle surprised me. i’m not sure how long they’ve been carrying hardware but i didn’t see it the last time i was in there. i was even more surprised when i started looking more closely and found out that most every piece was extremely similar to anthropologie’s hardware with the exception of the price tag. anthropologie’s cabinet knobs range from $8 - $15. the hobby lobby ones were $4 - $6 and they were on sale for 1/2 off. i had my handy-dandy camera with me so i snapped some pics.

hobby lobby’s version

anthro’s version

hobby lobby’s version

anthro’s version hobby lobby’s version

anthro’s version

hobby lobby’s version

anthro’s version

there were others that resembled anthropologie but didn’t look identical to any particular one.

they also had door knobs that were about 1/2 the price of the ones at antrhopologie plus another 1/2 off of that with the sale price. harper is getting her decorative door knob after all and at a fraction of the cost of the real ones. i’m using the cream and red painted one below for her closet doors.