How To Age Shiney Gold Door Handles

The second method uses water and a few household products.

How to age shiney gold door handles.

You will learn. 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. Before you use either method you must remove any lacquer on the brass first. Read on to discover which method to.

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. Below are two methods to age brass.

Let s face it door handles don t stay gleaming for long and endlessly polishing away grubby fingerprints is a pain. New brass is a shiny golden color but over time it darkens and takes on a green brown or reddish patina. If you prefer the appearance of older brass there are several ways to hasten or imitate aging. I grabbed my candle lighter and got to firing that brass knob.

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. So at this point it just looked like a scratched up slightly lighter colored 1993 brass door knob. Brass fixtures and fittings were all the rage a few decades ago but that super shiny look has fallen out of fashion. Luckily it s easy to transform shiny brass to create a lovely antique finish that will look far more stylish.