Posh Knobs

If there's one thing I love most about interior design, it's channeling my inner magician and turning a drab space into something unique and wonderful.  Of course, it's a lot easier to channel said magician with a large budget but I've found that a smaller budget makes me a bit more resourceful.  When working with clients with a smaller budget I've learned that sprucing up what they already have works wonders and allows me to redistribute money that I may have spent on a new piece of furniture to a new rug or a new piece of art or sculpture.  "Sprucing" can entail stripping and re-staining, painting, or adding new hardware to an existing casegood.  Adding new hardware is the least labor intensive and usually inexpensive method of giving an old piece of furniture new life.  In my own home when I start to get the itch to buy new furniture, I exercise self-control by taking a trip to the nearest Anthropologie to search for decorative hardware.  Here are a few of my favorites: