How To Age Shiney Gold Door Handles

I have also included a way to age brass so it takes on a verdigris color.

How to age shiney gold door handles. Sometimes bright shiny silver is great but on this project i wanted to keep that old rustic look so i had to figure out a way to add some age to them quickly. Luckily it s easy to transform shiny brass to create a lovely antique finish that will look far more stylish. So at this point it just looked like a scratched up slightly lighter colored 1993 brass door knob. Brass fixtures and fittings were all the rage a few decades ago but that super shiny look has fallen out of fashion.

Before you use either method you must remove any lacquer on the brass first. I read somewhere that heating the brass up with a flame would help it tarnish quickly. The second method uses water and a few household products. The first uses a product called brass ager.

Let s face it door handles don t stay gleaming for long and endlessly polishing away grubby fingerprints is a pain. I grabbed my candle lighter and got to firing that brass knob. If you prefer the appearance of older brass there are several ways to hasten or imitate aging. Read on to discover which method to.

You will learn. Below are two methods to age brass. However by removing this protective coating and applying either ammonia fumes or brass ager to the surface you can age your brass hardware to give it a pleasing tarnished. I knew i had seen on the internet before using some kind of heat source or fire to age the metal but of course i couldn t find a good tutorial anywhere when i was looking for one.