How To Age Shiney Gold Door Handles

Let s face it door handles don t stay gleaming for long and endlessly polishing away grubby fingerprints is a pain.

How to age shiney gold door handles.

The first uses a product called brass ager. The second method uses water and a few household products. How to age brass in 5 minutes. Read on to discover which method to.

Below are two methods to age brass. So at this point it just looked like a scratched up slightly lighter colored 1993 brass door knob. I knew i had seen on the internet before using some kind of heat source or fire to age the metal but of course i couldn t find a good tutorial anywhere when i was looking for one. I read somewhere that heating the brass up with a flame would help it tarnish quickly.

I have also included a way to age brass so it takes on a verdigris color. However by removing this protective coating and applying either ammonia fumes or brass ager to the surface you can age your brass hardware to give it a pleasing tarnished. Sometimes bright shiny silver is great but on this project i wanted to keep that old rustic look so i had to figure out a way to add some age to them quickly. New brass is a shiny golden color but over time it darkens and takes on a green brown or reddish patina.

You will learn. I grabbed my candle lighter and got to firing that brass knob. Brand new brass hardware such as drawer pulls door handles or towel bars stays shiny and bright for decades because of a protective lacquer coating on the surface. Luckily it s easy to transform shiny brass to create a lovely antique finish that will look far more stylish.