NOSTALGIC WAREHOUSE

WINTER 2025 WILLIAM METZGER Nostalgic Warehouse Denver, Colorado (800) 522-7336 nostalgicwarehouse.com NOSTALGIC WAREHOUSE MAKES interior and exterior door and cabinet hardware inspired by originals from the heyday of builders’ hardware (1880 to 1930). All hardware is designed to fit most doors made in the past 75 years and also can be retrofitted on many older doors. “What we do is actually better than the original,” says William Metzger, Nostalgic’s director of product development. “A lot of these older designs were stamped steel with brass plating, stamped brass, or crude brass castings. All of our stuff is forged. It’s stronger, it’s thicker, the surface has fewer imperfections. The details are better.” Brass components are also more durable than the stamped and pressed hardware from the early-20th century. Forged brass is made by pressing red-hot brass under up to 2…