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Brass=tacky. We spent hundreds in our home to eradicate it.
LOL! I love the eradicate comment. We feel the same way. Hate brass. We eliminated all of it in our house too. Luckily the shower stall and faucets did not have it. Just doorknobs.
Just sticking with chrome, as it is always either in or acceptable, but never totally out. Plus as we age, we like clean and basic. It just feels "easier", which is key when one ages.
We are updating a worn out kitchen, and walking the line between predicting future resale and enjoying for ourselves what we have installed. It's hard.
Yes. My countertop ordeal continues partially for this reason (also because I keep getting laminate quotes close to or over $2,000 with installation, etc....what?!).
I have a traditional looking house with a brick front and black shutters, so when it came time to eliminate the builder brass, I replaced with oil rubbed bronze door knobs and hinges. I think it fits in and looks nice without making a statement.
Faucets and shower hardware is chrome, which IMO fits in anywhere.
Previous poster is spot-on about trends: They always come back around, but in a slightly different way.
If you are redoing a bath, use polished nickel or stainless. It is timeless. Oil rubbed bronze looks dirty and will be out of favor shortly.
Disagree about the bronze. Friends in a high volume kitchen/bath fixture business in the northeast say brushed nickel and oil rubbed bronze remain the 2 hottest sellers. While brass "is back in", nobody is getting on board.
If you have real, solid brass fixtures in your home, that is a high-quality material and never really goes out of style. Do not remove them, especially to replace them with cheap brushed nickel or oil rubbed bronze finish stuff from Lowe's.
The cheap stamped steel with brass finish stuff will probably never come back. But that stuff is cheaply made and pretty cheap to buy too, so replacing it every 15 years or so as trends change isn't going to break the bank.
Chrome is edging back into a lot of homes. Fixtures and lighting.
Oil rubbed bronze, the pet trend for several years is now dated. "Ewwww! Oil rubbed bronze. The whole house needs updating" is just around the corner.
When SS, granite, and scraped floors finally pass into the purgatory of popular disdain, the home improvement market will soar, and the unlucky owners will be stuck with a terrible bill.
We are updating a worn out kitchen, and walking the line between predicting future resale and enjoying for ourselves what we have installed. It's hard.
Ha, I guess I will have to throw away everything in our kitchen then . Stainless appliances, granite, oil rubbed faucet, (plus the lights in most of the house and all the doorknobs are ORB) Oh, and I forgot, its not scraped or anything, but we do have the terrible what if the dishwasher leaks OMG the floors will be ruined hardwoods through the entire downstairs. (like water leaking from the dishwasher can't get down and ruin the subfloor no matter what the finish is)
Brass fixtures (faucets, etc) have not been popular in new construction for a number of years. I heard recently that brass is starting to become popular again. I would appreciate comments from those in construction, real estate, building supply, etc. If you were thinking of selling a home and have brass fixtures in bathrooms should we consider replacing the brass?
It was ugly then, and it's ugly now.
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. Stainless appliances, granite, oil rubbed faucet, (plus the lights in most of the house and all the doorknobs are ORB) Oh, and I forgot, its not scraped or anything, but we do have the terrible what if the dishwasher leaks OMG the floors will be ruined hardwoods through the entire downstairs. (like water leaking from the dishwasher can't get down and ruin the subfloor no matter what the finish is)
