Doorknobs can be very pretty and interesting. The doors in this 1906 house have some lovely examples. There are oblong brass ones with detailed lines that look classic and yet casual. The round ivory knobs are cool to the touch and somehow soothing. The front door is brass and embossed. Glass fluted ones are on the French door to the living room. The linen cupboard has no doorknob, no handle, no way at all to open the cupboard door except to reach up and grip it at the top and give a good pull. I find it hard to believe that in a hundred years no one has made the opening easier but there is no evidence of there ever having been a doorknob. There soon will be! I am just trying to decide which, in my collection, to choose. There is a charming glass globe but it seems a bit too grand for this humble door. A driftwood curl seems not serious enough. A trio of stainless steel spheres might do. Or maybe a sculpture of fibre, knit on large needles, or a Greek braid using rope, or a Chinese knot. There is so much fun in the planning…………… Perhaps that is why there is still no doorknob on the linen cupboard after one hundred years!