With the growing fashion to display antique servants call bell systems in our homes as decorative pieces, we often get asked about the history. Call bell systems certainly existed in grand country estates and large city houses from the mid...
The door knocker is quintessential look for an English Front door although the first door knockers were thought to be found in Ancient Greece. I was delighted to come across a beautiful example of a brass Lions Head knocker at...
Fitting both period door handles and antique door handles and knobs is fairly straightforward. All of our door handles are supplied with spindles (the square bar that goes between both handles that operates the lock or latch). Our range of reproduction...
One of the most common questions we get asked is will antique taps fit my plumbing? The easy answer is yes. The vast majority of modern taps (except mono block mixers) are still 1/2'' BSP for basin and sinks and...
We've just updated this article with a video 'How To' guide. We get asked allot about fitting or restoring original pulls or bells, the principle is very much the same as fitting reproduction ones as below. As with the reproduction...
We've just updated this article with a video 'How To' guide. We get asked a lot about fitting both antique and reproduction front door bell pulls and how you deal with corners and actually connecting the pull to the bell. The principal...
We get asked allot about fitting letter plates especially how to find and fit an internal tidy. Two of the styles of letter plate we stock (Classic and traditional, with or without clapper) do have a matching easy to fit...
Although we love running Architectural Décor, (and it takes most of our time!), we do get the odd morning off and one of the things we most enjoy is helping out at our local Repair Café. Repair Cafes http://repaircafe.org/ are...
We like a bit of Bristol history at Architectural Decor and when we came across the brass taps below with a local Bristol connection we had to look into the company. Around 1880 the Rowe Brothers & Company...