Nice Knockers!

October 20, 2014 by Donna from One Beautiful Thing 7 Comments

A while back, I did a post about beautiful doors, which post I thoroughly enjoyed researching. I was recently reminded of how much, as a child, I used to enjoy our neighbor Miss Simonson’s door knocker, a ferocious-looking gargoyle thing which never failed to give me the (good) shivers when I popped across the street for a visit. I wish we lived in a house that could pull off a really spectacular door knocker, but, alas, our little home is much too unprepossessing. Therefore, I will have to get my knocker on here.

In addition to the hashtag #doorknockers, there are some great Instagram accounts where you can peruse knockers to your heart’s content. Enjoy!

Truly beautiful and frightening swamp thing knocker

Do your hands smell like fish after knocking with this magnificent thing?

Not sure what’s going on here, but pretty!

I always loved the Victorian lady knockers. That sounded weird. Ha.

Danerys Targeryn has one of these.

I’m thinking this would be perfect on the door of a hair salon

This key is wonderful, though it seems to be an advertisement for war.

Dragony-gargoyly-something. Love it, whatever it is.

Farrah Fawcett had one of these.

Very Jacob Marley. I thoroughly approve.

Leg with wings. Alright, sir.

Dobby!

This needs to be on a pink sparkly door.

The whole Southwest thing usually doesn’t move me, but I love, love, LOVE this. Don’t know why. Just makes me go all wanty.

This is everything. I really tried to find a picture of the whole door, but I was unsuccessful. Just spectacular. I don’t even mind the newt or whatever that is.

The far-away look on this Medusa’s face is really moving. Not something I ever expected to observe in a representation of a lady with snake hair.

On its own, I likely would have bypassed this classic knocker, but it fits so perfectly into the center panel of this beautiful red door, I couldn’t resist.