Forged door handles: features and varieties

Moving into a new apartment, every family dreams of making a cozy family nest out of impersonal rooms. This is the most important issue that requires taking into account even the smallest details. For example, you need to pay special attention to door handles. Now forged handles are especially popular.

Forged door handles have become widespread among buyers, and this is due to a number of advantages.

• Special processing during production makes this product strong and durable. The material is not afraid of weather conditions and mechanical stress. Even after a few years, a product that is touched every day during use looks like new.

• This mechanism has a very pleasant and smooth to the touch surface thanks to the polymer coating.

• Forged handles are offered in a wide range of designs. A skilled craftsman can create any shape, figure, abstraction from metal.

• Due to the light susceptibility of metal to staining, the elements can be styled like gold or bronze. You can also order the usual black detail - forging gives a chic appearance to any product.

Among the forged handles, entrance and interior varieties are distinguished. If you need to purchase a locking mechanism for the front door, then you need to pay special attention to the reliability of this element. When you need to choose a handle for interior doors, one of the main criteria should be to highlight the design of the product. Door handles can be divided into the following types by design.

• Stationary. These are classic handles that only serve to open or close a door. Usually the design is in the form of staples, but you can choose a more interesting shape.

• Movable. This refers to elements in which the locking mechanism is already integrated. Usually this is a push-type version of door locking.

With regard to the production method, the handles are divided into the following options.

• Cold forging. In this case, special equipment is used in the manufacture, which ensures the output of a large number of products. However, these are classic regular pens, affordable and designed for the mass consumer.
• Hot forging. This method is hand-crafted to create original, exquisite, custom-made pieces. This is an exclusive product that will harmoniously fit into the interior, however, the owner of this product will have to spend a lot.

Coming to the store for a forged handle or ordering a product from the manufacturer, it is necessary to pay attention to the following points.

• The door handle is still a mechanism, and therefore the buyer has the right to demand a quality certificate from the seller. Also, if there is no guarantee for the product, it is better to refuse to purchase it. A decent manufacturer always gives a guarantee.

• You need to carefully examine the goods, try to unscrew the existing unwinding parts yourself, or ask the seller to do this in your presence.

• If the handle is selected for the front door, then it is worth carefully examining all its operational properties and making sure of the quality of the material. In this case, the product will be daily exposed to ultraviolet radiation, precipitation and other external factors.

• The most important criterion when choosing a door element is given to design. Forged product is not suitable for every door.For example, a forged handle on an entrance door faced with a laminated or veneered MDF panel will not look very aesthetically pleasing. If the interior style is country or Provence, then the ideal option would be a model made of rough forged steel with blackening.

Manufacturers currently offer a wide range of forged door handle models. The most popular among them are the following options.

• The pen in the form of an elongated feather looks very exquisite. The thinnest flowing lines create the appearance of feather fibers, which speaks of the refined taste of the owner of the house. This should also include products in arbitrary bizarre shapes, made according to the original sketch.

• Items stylized in the Gothic style are always relevant. Snakes, chimeras or other mythical creatures on the doors look mysterious and give the house a mysterious atmosphere.

• Products made in the form of household items, for example, handles in the form of spoons or bicycle parts, look very original. This option is suitable for placement on the doors of offices and companies. For example, on a bar door, you can install a forged handle in the shape of a circle.

• Respectable successful people prefer to mount semi-antique handles in their country houses. They will perfectly fit into the interior in retro style and will be a great addition to antique chandeliers and candlesticks.

You will learn more about forged door handles in the following video.