Black Wrought Iron Cabinet Hardware

Black wrought iron finish, seen here on bathroom hooks

Smedbo's Beslagsboden line puts the black wrought iron finish on wall hooks, not on cabinet pulls, so shoppers land here looking for something to mount over a tub or beside a sink rather than a drawer front. The color sits dark with a grainy texture underneath, closer to raw cast metal than to plated steel, since none of the surface gets buffed to a shine. Smedbo shapes each hook as a simple curved arm on a small wall plate, leaving the finish itself to supply whatever character the piece has, rather than an elaborate casting or an added flourish at the base.

Sizes in the Beslagsboden hook run

Lengths step from 2.75 up through 6.5, unusually wide for one product line, letting a compact hook take a washcloth while the largest handles a full bathrobe. Every size uses the same two-screw mount, so the sizing question comes down to what's going on the hook, not the installation itself. A row of the smaller hooks along one wall handles multiple towels without crowding, where a single larger hook works better isolated near a door.

Extending a black finish onto the walls

Smedbo's name for this finish lines up closely with black finishes used on cabinet pulls throughout the catalog, so a vanity already outfitted in dark hardware can add a hook without the color reading as a mismatch next to the pulls. One hook by a tub or above a radiator carries that dark tone into a stretch of wall the drawer pulls never touch, without needing a matching finish on every accessory in the room.

Cabinet hardware in a related dark finish

Black covers the pulls and knobs built for doors and drawers, while bronze shifts the same dark palette warmer than this cooler gray-black cast.