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The market is flooded with a variety of handles and hinges that makes it difficult to ignore the hardware segment, says RANJANI GOVIND
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Have you ever imagined your doors without the hinges and handles? Your drawers and cupboards without the slides that glide, your doors and windows without the bolts that shut and open or a locking mechanism that helps you keep your valuables safely? Spare a thought to your accessories, for they are as important for a home as your furniture is.
Your furniture can become accessible only with the right hardware accessories. With out the right ones, there would be no effective use of the primary furniture and this is where one comes to know the real value of hardware, as the collection was until recently behind the limelight. “Hardware is mostly called ‘unsung hero collection.’ They are so vital to a home, yet so modest, and unassumingly make a statement that they are the security keepers for the dwelling,” says Ram Prasad, a door accessory dealer in Chickpet from Doors and Handles. “Only the steel and brass ones were sold earlier, but the shapes, sizes and the texture in which the accessories have taken avatars now is just mind-boggling…not to forget the imported hinges and handles,” he says.
In interiors, what do hardware accessories actually mean? In bedrooms, it could be a set of locks, keys and handles for drawers and shutters. It could also be a set of castors for your chairs and door closures for the door. Wardrobes too could have different types of cloth hanging systems and a host of storage devices that needs hinges for adjustments and the same hinges to shut your windows!
Glass shelves in the dining room need to have hinges and support systems for display of crockery and the kitchens enjoy a variety of bottle and vessel storing systems. Now with the modulars coming in, there is a big role for the handles and hinges to play. Consider your rotating shelves, pull-out systems, cutlery trays, folding breakfast table or the vertical and horizontal slots.
Towel rods, brush holder or the mirror would occupy your bathrooms with water-proof hinges that would stay shy from getting rusty, even as the latches are now available in aluminium, steel and brass for doors that people could choose from.
“More and more people are getting accessory conscious now, and that is why the market is opened up,” says Ram Prasad. “People no more go to godown-like spaces to search for these essentials, but take time to select to their tastes and requirement. I know of couples who take a whole day to decide on their door handles,” he says.
Thanks to the new display systems in showrooms, something routine is now being shopped for sombre comfort.
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