{"id":846,"date":"2010-04-15T11:50:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2010-04-15T11:50:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T16:50:09","slug":"clever-but-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/2010\/clever-but-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Clever but BAD"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just visited a client’s house in the West Village and this doorknob installation made me laugh it was so BAD! They bought this place newly renovated in, oh I don’t know, probably around ’98 I would guess. It’s one of those gorgeous Landmarked buildings down there but the interior renovation was clearly a “SELL RENO” that has all the high-end hardware that looks good at first but then things start to fall apart little by little….<\/p>\n

I’ve never seen a trick this bad though – the door is a standard 1-3\/4″ metal door (which is bad enough in a high end house…) but the knob & latch is\u00a0 a fancy Baldwin that requires a smaller hole than the standard 2-1\/8″. So what did they do since metal doors always come with the bigger hole? They filled it with some sort of wood putty or Bondo, and redrilled a smaller hole into that material for mounting the knobs. I’ll bet they were so proud of their ingenuity… but now all that fill has shattered & fallen out so the knob is just hanging there, looking all ugly.<\/p>\n

Amazing….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just visited a client’s house in the West Village and this doorknob installation made me laugh it was so BAD! They bought this place newly renovated in, oh I don’t know, probably around ’98 I would guess. It’s one of those gorgeous Landmarked buildings down there but the interior renovation was clearly a “SELL RENO” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[79],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7yDEm-dE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilsonbuilt.com\/wb_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}