What should you need to know about the suitable care for your decorative hardware?

Decorative hardware can not only add a sense of fashion to your home but also have strong practical functions. Although they are small, they play an important role in the decoration style. Regularly clean and maintain household hardware to prolong their useful life. Then they can provide years of beauty and function, and can also save the cost of frequent hardware replacement. The following will introduce how to maintain the hardware of different materials.

 

The types of decorative hardware materials

 

Crystal and glass

 

Crystal and glass are often used to make glass and crystal handles and knobs. Crystal glass door handles are easily broken and corroded by chemicals. Therefore, you can use mild soapy water to clean it, and then polish it with a common glass cleaner. If there are stains that are not easy to wash off, you can also try to clean them with the solution of vinegar and water.

 

Wood

 

Wood hardware is usually decorated for the traditional and simple decorative style. The hardware of wood always gives people warm and elegant feelings. For better maintenance of wood cabinet hardware, you can use a wood cleaner to clean wooden cabinet handles. Then polish the wood with a soft cloth to avoid scratches. Every once in a while, you need to use a stripping agent to remove the wax from the wood. In addition, it is worth doing that you can not let water stay on the wood hardware for too long as the water will warp or swell the wood.

 

Bronze

 

As a kind of hardware material, bronze is durable and resistant to corrosion in harsh environments. Bronze is considered to be a living finish, which will be oxidized and change color over time. And the way of color change may be different which depend on the use and location of bronze hardware. The color of bronze hardware is usually darker, giving people retro feelings. If you want to slow down the oxidation process of bronze door furniture, you can wipe your bronze door pulls with a soft cloth with beeswax, so that your bronze hardware will become shinier.

 

Brass

 

Brass hardware is beautiful and can make the home shiny. As time goes on, the metal will be oxidized and brass may become dark and dull. If you want the brass hardware to look bright, you can use brass polish to maintain it. Before polishing, the brass hardware can be soaked in a soap solution for a period of time to loosen the dirt and remove most of it. And then you can use a soft cloth to clean it by following the instructions on the brass polishing agent. In this way, the brass furniture hardware will be bright.

 

Stainless steel

 

Stainless steel is the most common kind of decorative hardware material. Although this finish is durable and strong, it will also rust. Luckily, stainless steel is very elastic so rust can be quickly wiped off. When maintaining stainless steel cabinet handles, you should be careful not to use irritating chemicals, which will tarnish the stainless steel material. You can try using a soft cloth and a mixture of mild soapy water to clean dirt. In addition, you can also use stainless steel polishing agent. But you need to follow the instructions when using it.

 

In general, decorative cabinets hardware includes all knobs, handles, and pulls, which are used to decorate and function kitchen cabinets, bedroom cabinets, and so on. The caring methods of different hardware materials are different. You can extend the useful life of hardware through suitable care. In this way, even after a long time, your decorative hardware can still look very new.