Knobs

Over time, the knobs on the doors of the vanity in the kids' bath have slowly been breaking.  They are made from cheap pot metal and if anything hits them at an odd angle, they break off.  This photo is from the construction phase in the kids' bath; you can see that the molding under the wainscot cap isn't completely painted yet.

I'd briefly thought about trying to repair the knobs, but quickly realized it wasn't worth it.  There really isn't a good way to do it that will withstand normal wear and tear.

So we looked around at a few stores and found some different ones as replacements.  They have a similar color tone and detail.  The decorative escutcheon couldn't be re-used, so I'll have the fill the nail holes.  We'll also have to hit the cabinet with a little furniture polish or something to minimize the "ghost" lines from the perimeter of the escutcheons; they are mostly just from the collection of dust.

And while we were looking for replacement knobs, we were also looking for knobs for the master bath.

We needed 19 of them.

The ones on the cabinet doors went in fairly quickly; it took me perhaps a total of 10 minutes to install the ones on the 5 cabinet doors.

The ones on the drawers were a different story...

It took about two hours to install those.  The drawer face is not an integral part of the drawer box, so each face came off. Then I could locate the position of the knob, drill the hole, install the knob, and re-install the drawer face.  The face is adjustable so that you can align them properly, which had to be done anyway, so it wasn't that big of a deal.