So you are thinking of investing in some good old glass door knobs, fine choice, I enjoy them very much myself. Mostly because I live in an old house with lots of original peaces and old hardware, authentic you might say. But my love for them appeared suddenly, I had some doors with old, wore out knobs. They were so unsecure I had to watch out not to get stuck inside a room, cause those old knobs could break a part or just spin around the shaft, not going anywhere. So i had to go to work, I didn’t really want to but my wife always reminded me of it so I had two options: to get new knobs or keep fighting with her. And since you can`t win an argument with your wife ( she is always right ) I started going through some online catalogs and actually find some interesting glass door knobs. At first I was a little skeptical cause the price was about half of those that we intended to buy as replacements. So first thing I did was to check out with some friends, ask their opinions. I didn’t even know some of them already bought them and actually recommended them. And I finally bought a few, just to check and see the reactions. Everybody in the family liked them, they look kind of stylish but were very durable and reliable. And now, after years of use still look brand new.

Now let us look back for a bit and share some facts in their exciting history. These knobs were most popular in the late 19^th century and early 1900`s, some think Art Nouveau period was to blame, there are many opinions on that one. Later on, more popular door knobs were made of nickel, brass chrome etc. Most antique glass door knobs are clear, coloured glass was not so popular back then, and this in pretty reasonable, can you imagine your front house door with green handle or red. That simply does not work. In those early times, one of the most important place for making glass door knobs and producing top quality glass in general was in Bohemia, located in the modern Czech Republic.

Glass door knobs are very popular even today and because of that should be pretty easy to find, you can check some hardware stores around you. But of course, one of the most powerful places today is the internet, you can find all you need plus more. You can also find ton of important informations, like what design you should go with, how is suits your door and your house in general. If I had to choose between running around from store to store, asking a bunch of questions and simply sit in your chair, plug in the computer, with bunch of informations in front of you; i`d definitely go for the second.