Here is the basic wooden door pull that finally came off my son’s closet in our rented farmhouse. The closet is plywood or chipboard or something like that, hollow, and from repeated usage, this screw had stripped around itself and now just popped out whenever you tried to open the accordion door.

Here is the replacement, from my best bud, Hobby Lobby.

I love Hobby Lobby. It’s my source for knitting supplies, including wool and cotton yarns and needles; affordable canvases, acrylic paints, palettes and brushes for my (and my son’s) painting vice; model-railroad materials for whenever I need to build a model of Tenochtitlan; fabric for a Renfaire tent or a cave woman costume; and wood for those hippie woodburning projects, not to mention the usual scrapbooking supplies, gift wrap, stickers, and Christmas decorations.

Sadly, or perhaps happily, this post is not a paid promotion.

In addition to all this, Hobby Lobby has an impressive selection of themed shelf brackets, towel and key hooks, and drawer pulls, often in cast-iron. These are not just cutesy country style fixtures (though they do have that). You could put together a goth or steampunk or French Country or Log Cabin look for a room, easily, with the supplies found there.

Long story short, I walked into the Hobby Lobby variety-drawer-pull section, and within seconds I had found the beauty above. It was 50% off, so I think I paid about two bucks for it. In order to put it into the plywood door, I had to use a plastic drywall anchor.

The thing that made this find so serendipitous, though, was that the closet in question resides in the room of my rabbit-obsessed son. (Rabbits!) Additionally, said room has the following window valance:

I mean.

The only downside is that, as I now notice in the picture, the rest of the door looks kind of bad by comparison.

The upside is that this post is now long enough to appear on a Friday and not on a Monday.