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This double garage door was outfitted with simple but effective decorative hardware. As shown in the photo above, these are the products installed:

• Square Pull Handle (Quantity: 4 each)
• Aspen Decorative Hinge Fronts (multiple sizes available)
• 11″ Pair
• 14″ Pair (shown in the photo above. Quantity: 4 pair)
• 19″ Pair
• 23″ Pair
• 25″ Pair
• 33″ Pair
• 37″ Pair
• View other styles of decorative hinges and decorative pull handles.

Tips for choosing decorative garage door hardware:  

1. Decorative carriage house and garage door hardware  comes with wood screws. If you’d like to install the hardware to a metal garage door, you’d be safest using sheet-metal screws, as they have threads that extend all the way to the head of the screw.
2. Which Length Do I Choose?

   People often wonder which length of hinge front to use for their wood gate, door, or garage door. There is a “rule of thumb” that 25-30% of the gate/door/garage door width is an appropriate proportion. That can be a helpful guide.

   To really choose the best hinge front length, you can ask yourself the following question:

   “Do I want the dummy hinge to be a FOCAL point or an ACCENT piece?”

   •  Hinge Front as Focal Point: You might have a basic garage door and you want to make a bold statement with it. Choose 25” or 37” straps and go for it! You can also play with the quantity of straps you use. For a carriage house or garage door, try 3 or 4 straps if you want to create an eyeful.
   •  Hinge Front as Accent Piece: Even with the same garage door mentioned above, you might want to highlight the garage door’s shape. In this case, a few pair of 11” straps could do the trick.

   The bottom line is…do what works for you. If you want to go big (literally), go big! If you’d prefer something low-key and understated, so be it. There is no “right” or “wrong” answer.

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• The style of shutter hinge and pintle should complement your home’s style and window’s architecture.
• The material you select should be based on the type of climate you live in, and the level of rust-resistance you require.

The time and expense invested in not only choosing, but installing shutter hardware, require that you make the right choice the first time. Here we discuss the rust-resistance of the various decorative and functional shutter hardware we carry.

Our shutter hardware is supplied exclusively by Coastal Bronze and Lynn Cove Foundry and Forge. Both manufacturers are committed to bringing their customers the highest quality hardware that will last even in the most corrosive environments while still maintaining the integrity of the old world designs.

Galvanized Carbon Steel Shutter Hardware

Lynn Cove’s carbon steel is galvanized before being powder coated. They perform a series of additional processes, including a 10-step passivation process, to ensure the highest level of durability. The popular New York Style shutter hardware is made from carbon steel.

These products will last about 700 hours is salt spray testing, which is quite impressive compared to the competition.

Where to use Steel Shutter Hardware: Use our carbon steel products inland where there is little moisture and the environment is not harsh.

Maintaining Steel Shutter Hardware: Regular maintenance such as lubricating friction points (for example where pintles and hinges intersect) will allow your hardware to last a life-time.

See our Carbon Steel Shutter Hardware section. See our New York Style Shutter Hinges and Pintles. Assortment of Shutter Stays, Dogs, and Tiebacks. Shutter bolts.

Stainless Steel Shutter Hardware

The stainless steel shutter hardware we offer is made of 304 series that has a proprietary coating (similar to galvanization, but refined to better suit stainless steel) before being powder coated for optimal corrosion resistance. Lynn Cove produces a full range of stainless steel hardware including hinges, pintles, slide bolts, and shutter stays.

This hardware will last 1,000 hours in salt spray testing, which makes it ideal for coastal applications.

Where to use Stainless Steel Shutter Hardware: Use Lynn Cove’s stainless steel products in coastal areas or those where the hardware will be exposed to regular salty or industrial humidity.

Maintaining Stainless Steel Shutter Hardware: Again, regular lubrication will add to the life of your hardware.

See our Stainless Steel Shutter Hardware. Assortment of Shutter Stays, Dogs, and Tiebacks. Shutter bolts.

Aluminum Shutter Hardware

For Lynn Cove’s aluminum products, they use aircraft quality aluminum that is anodized and powder coated. Aluminum can’t rust, but it certainly can corrode, and they have tweaked their anodization process to prevent this. Again, a black powder coat finishes the product, further lengthening its lifetime to 1000+ in salt spray testing.

We offer a wide range of decorative pull handles, hinge fronts, accessories, and even functional shutter hinges and pintles and stays. But we our most popular aluminum product is our telescoping Bahama Stays for Bahama shutters.

Where to use Aluminum Shutter Hardware: Use Lynn Cove’s aluminum products in all levels of coastal applications.

Maintaining Aluminum Shutter Hardware: This is serious stuff with no maintenance required.

See our Aluminum Shutter Hardware. Collection of Bahama Shutter Hardware. Assortment of Shutter Stays, Dogs, and Tiebacks. Shutter bolts.

Bronze Shutter Hardware

Coastal Bronze is well known for their heavy duty high quality hardware. Their recent introduction of shutter hardware is a welcome asset to their portfolio. The bronze they use is 90% copper and 10% tin for corrosion-free life. It has an exterior-grade wax applied that protects the finish. Bronze darkens over time to a dark copper penny finish, then eventually a verdigris patina.

Where to use Bronze Shutter Hardware: Use Coastal Bronze’s products in all levels of coastal applications.

Maintaining Bronze Shutter Hardware: The only maintenance needed would be if you didn’t want the finish to naturally age. In that case, you’d want to re-apply wax to your hardware on a periodic basis.

See our Bronze Shutter Hinges and Pintles. Bronze shutter bolt. Bronze shutter dog. Bronze accessories.

To begin the custom process, please contact us and provide as much of the following information as possible:

• Type of product(s) needed
• Dimensions needed (if there are any dimensions that constrain your project)
• Preferred material
• Photos, sketches, or renderings of the project
• Preferred finish

With this information we can visualize your project and begin to estimate what would be required to create it.

When you’re planning for a custom hardware project, budget and timeline are two factors to consider. In general, custom hardware costs more than off-the-shelf hardware. Below we’ve listed some of the factors involved in pricing custom hardware:

• Minor modifications to an off-the-shelf product (different finish, slightly different dimensions to accommodate an installation peculiarity) can raise the price just slightly compared to starting fresh with a brand new custom product
• Material choice: stainless steel is the most expensive material, followed by bronze, then aluminum.
• Choice of finish: powdercoating or a brushed finish require time and material that becomes part of the whole picture.
• Degree of engineering: the more complex the item, the more engineering required. Spring-loaded latches require more engineering than gravity latches; heavy duty hinges that will support hundreds of pounds must be precisely made to carry the load.

We have almost a dozen combinations and sizes to choose from and they’re in stock and ready to ship!

We introduced several latches this year that can accommodate thicknesses up to 5-1/2″. The problem always came when clients needed to lock those thick gates. Normal deadbolts can only fit gates and doors up to about 3″. So we set about engineering a modification to our stainless steel deadbolt that would allow it to work flawlessly with thicker gates and doors. Several months later, success!

We’re thrilled to introduce the stainless steel square deadbolt that will fit gates and doors between 3″ and 5-1/2″ thick. Lead-time is one week.

Curb appeal is anything in the view of the front of the house that can be seen from the street; anything large or small. When everything is taken together they tell a cohesive story about the house and the people who live there.

In this article we’ll talk about affordable ways you can improve curb appeal on a small budget and with your own two hands. When you improve your curb appeal you will raise your home’s value.

Why Is Curb Appeal Important?

Curb appeal is the first impression of your house. It tells the story of the home and the people who live there. At our house, the story is of a busy family that’s creative, artistic, and may not weed as often as needed to combat the 16 hours a day of summer sun that Portland gets. We walk past the overgrown reeds, the dust on the ledge of the front door, the spider webs across our porch lights that seem to reappear overnight and don’t notice them anymore. Everyone has something that they overlook. Improving your home’s curb appeal requires bringing a critical eye to the project, seeing it as a stranger might.

Most of these DIY projects take very little money to accomplish. If you’ve got a small budget to spend on DIY curb appeal projects, spend them where you get the most bang for your buck: replacing a mailbox, house numbers or entry door hardware—things that pull the eye to the entry of the house, the focal point, where you want to welcome people in.

To improve your home’s curb appeal, tackle projects in these four categories: landscaping, painting, the entry, and gates/fences. As you approach each one, try to use the eyes of a stranger: notice the things that you normally walk past and don’t see anymore.

When I bought my house, it had been a rental with a heroin dealing operation in it. Needless to say, the neighbors were thrilled when I moved in! Until a few months later when the grass started to grow a half inch a day; I was a single lady without garden equipment.

One neighbor offered to lend me a lawnmower. A few weeks later, a second neighbor sent his gardeners over to cut my lawn for me. He just didn’t want to look at it anymore! A few months later, a third neighbor, about to put her home on the market, offered to have their landscapers come over and ‘clean up’ my yard. My point is that curb appeal impacts not just you, but your neighbors and the general feel of the neighborhood for people walking or driving through the area.

Landscaping: Clean and clutter-free is the key for landscaping. Even yards full of beautiful plantings can be weeded, trimmed, and tidied. The essentials of landscaping curb appeal are:

• Mature Trees: they add value to a home, provide shade, and make a home look well lived-in. Apparently, your neighbors having mature trees is actually even more preferable to home-buyers, probably because you get the shade, the beauty and none of the raking duty!
• Plants & Flowers: keep everything trimmed and weeded.
• Lawn: keep your lawn mowed and weeded as best you can. Manicured is more than we can hope for at our house, but mowed is a must.

Painting, Etc.: Paint is a really quick way to make your home look good as new. There is a range of projects you can tackle. Painting the entire exterior of the home is the largest curb appeal project you could undertake, but it is a hefty financial commitment. If you can’t afford a huge painting project, consider one of the suggestions below.

• Replace the Front Door: data shows that replacing a front door more than pays for itself. The average cost is $1200, but if you can’t swing a new door, at least paint it. Choose a color that draws the eye from the street and welcomes people to your home.
• Paint and Spruce Up Your Shutters: a cleaning and a fresh coat of paint on your shutters will do wonders. Take a hard look at your shutters, whether they’re decorative or functional. Is something hanging at an odd angle? Fix it! Guaranteed that someone walking past on the street notices it. Adding a few pieces of shutter hardware, like shutter stays or shutter dogs, ties up the package with a bow. It’s not expensive and it completes the look.
• Paint Your Window Trim: again, a fresh coat of paint—whether it’s the same paint color or a new one—on your window trim will make your house look different from the curb.

Entry Area: The entry area is the unsung hero of curb appeal. Minor changes to the entry can create a major impression!

1. Paint the Front Door: Even cleaning goes a long way. But painting is a quick and cheap way to dramatically change the door’s appearance and make everything look new. Go out on a design limb and choose Chartreuse or Mango or Spiced Pumpkin! If you have hardware, mailbox, house numbers, and a doorbell cover that you really like, try to choose a paint color that highlights the hardware.
2. Look At Your Entry Hardware: High quality entry hardware is not too pricey and can really change the appearance of the front door. Sometimes a 1970′s door set has been on your front door and you don’t even see it anymore. Try changing that out for an oil-rubbed bronze entry set and wow! If you’re painting or replacing the door, consider replacing your handleset and deadbolt, as well.
3. Paint or Replace Your Mailbox: A can of spray paint (and a properly prepped mailbox) can be a quick weekend warrior DIY project. If you don’t feel like getting out the sandpaper and masking tape, buy a new mailbox! For between $100-$300 you can find a really beautiful high quality post-mount or wall-mount mailbox. Remember to coordinate with address numbers and doorbell.
4. Address Numbers: Sure, you can paint over your existing address numbers, but for the time and effort it’ll take, I suggest replacing them with something new. Architectural house numbers can drive home a style on a budget. Try to coordinate finishes among the address numbers, the entry hardware, and the doorbell.

 

1. Doorbell: Replace it. Enough said!
2. Door Mat: Am I the only person who notices the dog hair, spider webs, and slimy leaf fragments in people’s door mats? For $20-$40 you can get a new one (and maybe one that’s washable!).

Gates and Fences: Gates and fences are the oft-overlooked aspect of a home’s curb appeal. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked by a cute house with a tidy front porch, spiffy mailbox, stylish house numbers…and a saggy, faded gate and fence on the side-yard. Sprucing up the finish on your gates and fences, as well as replacing any hardware that doesn’t function properly (or is just plain ugly and isn’t doing your house any favors!) is a key component of curb appeal.

1. Fix or Replace Sagging Gates: Depending on the type of gate you have, you might be able to fix the sag. For gates that are beyond repair, replacing them is probably the best bet.
2. Paint, Refinish, or Stain Gates and Fences: A quick sand and a new coat of paint or finish can make a structurally-sound fence or gate look fantastic. If you have a gate or fence that was unfinished to begin with, a stain or paint job will do wonders. It makes it look like a whole new installation.
3. Fix or Replace Gate Hardware: Don’t get me started on crummy gate hardware! Again, a very lovely house with a well-tended yard and bright painted door…and a nice new gate with a string hanging through a hole. Even with a tight budget there are many choices out there for gate latches and hinges that add a bit of architectural style to your home.

Close-Up View of Modern Ring Latch with Rectangular Handle with peek of the lovely pool area behind.

enclosures. They may include:

• requiring self-closing spring hinges;
• specifying the height of the latch placement;
• that the latch be self-latching; and
• that the gate be lockable

Self-Closing Hinges

We carry self-closing spring hinges for pool gates. They are available in a number of finishes. They also have an adjustable spring that can be set to your level of spring. There are two options when using spring hinges. First, you can use three spring hinges to hang your pool gate. You’ll need to adjust the tension in the spring so that it closes the gate effectively but doesn’t slam it. The second option is to use two heavy duty ball bearing butt hinges (that aren’t self-closing) and one self-closing hinge. For most average sized gates, a single self-closing hinge will suffice. It would be installed as the center of the three hinges.

Latch Placement

Usually if there is a requirement for a latch height, it relates to the latch handle being out of the reach of children’s hands. Any of the latches we sell can be placed at whatever height you’d like. The photo below is a pool entry gate.

The gate is the entryway to the pool area. Beautiful stone stairway leading you into a garden paradise! Featuring: Modern Ring Latch with Rectangular Ring.

Self-Latching Gate Latches

Any spring-loaded gate latch is self-latching. Self-latching means that when you push the gate closed, you don’t have to manually place the latch-arm in the keeper or strike. A spring-loaded latch’s arm will automatically snap into place when the gate closes.

Lockable Gate Hardware

When you need to be able to lock a pool gate, there are really two options. First is to choose a lockable gate latch. Unfortunately, in the world of architectural gate latches, there are currently no lockable gate latches that fit the requirements of a pool gate latch that cost less than $1000. An alternative is to use a deadbolt along with the gate latch of your choice. A deadbolt will allow you to keep the gate locked when needed, or open when everyone is enjoying the pool.

These are just the basics of choosing pool gate hardware. Please be sure to contact your own municipality for your pool gate’s requirements.

Close-up view of Moda Latch on Double Wooden Gate

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