The Anonymous Widower

My IKEA Furniture Now Has Some Brass Knobs!

My house has a theme of dark black-brown steel beams fitted together with brass fittings.

Dark Steel And Brass Bolts

When I bought the house, it still had Jerry’s gold-painted steel bolts, which I have replaced with real brass ones.  Even if some might be just be real bolts glued into Jerry’s crude holes.

So when I bought some of IKEA’s Expedit boxes, which are just the right colour for the beams, I was disappointed that they only come with natural aluminium knobs.

IKEA’s Aluminium Knobs

So it was off to Birmingham by train to visit Honeyglen Anodising in Sparkbrook to see what they could do. I’ve now got the trial batch and here’s one in place.

Expedit With Brass Knobs

I’ve now got to get all the others together and send them off to Birmingham. I am getting them in a pretty standard brass colour, but there are more details here of the colours available.

January 30, 2014 - Posted by AnonW | World | Engineering, IKEA, My House