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Design Journal What Is OKUN? The Design Idea Behind the Hardware Nobody has ever thrown a dinner party and been complimented on their door handles. We've made our peace with that. It is, in a roundabout way, the entire business plan. OKUN Editorial· August 8, 2026· 8 min read A curtain wall is a grid with nothing added to it. So is a good door handle. Photo: Coline Beulin / Unsplash What is OKUN? OKUN is a New York City design house making architectural hardware for interiors — lever door handles and vent grilles. We sell direct rather than through...

Hardware Guide What Interior Door Handles Actually Cost Costed shopping lists for four house sizes — plus an honest answer about which budgets work and which ones don't. OKUN Editorial· August 8, 2026· 9 min read Before the hardware goes on, the whole-house number is smaller than most people assume. Photo: Brian Wangenheim / Unsplash How much does it cost to replace every interior door handle? A typical ten-door, three-bedroom home comes to about $490 using OKUN hardware — five privacy at $59.99, two passage at $49.99, three dummy at $29.99. That's just under $49 a door. Twelve doors runs...

Hardware Guide French Door Hardware: What You Actually Need to Order Every other guide explains what a dummy handle is. Almost none of them tell you how many to put in the cart. This one does — configuration by configuration. OKUN Editorial· August 8, 2026· 7 min read A standard interior French door pair — one panel does the work, one stays put. Photo: Elana Clark / Unsplash How many handles do French doors need? Most interior French door pairs need three pieces: one working set for the active panel, which covers both faces of that door, and two dummy...

What is a lockable door handle? How push-button privacy locks work, which rooms need one, how the emergency release works and why interior doors never need a key.