Door furniture refers to any of the items that are attached to a door or a drawer to enhance its functionality or appearance. It is named by analogy to street furniture. Design of door furniture is an issue to disabled persons who might have difficulty opening or using some kinds of door, and to specialists in Interior design as well as those usability professionals which often take their didactic examples from door furniture design and use.

Items of door furniture include:

• fingerplate
• keyhole
• lock
• doorknob
• door knocker
• door handle
• thumb latch
• hinge
• pull handle
• letter plate (or letter box)
• door stop
• escutcheon
• bell push
• toilet roll holder

Door furniture in literature

With the exception of keyhole, explicit references to door furniture appear to be rare in English literature but include the following:

• One of the letters was directed to Samuel F. Billington, No. 7, The Crescent, Whitby, another to Herr Leutner, Varna. The third was to Coutts & Co., London, and the fourth to Herren Klopstock & Billreuth, bankers, Buda Pesth. The second and fourth were unsealed. I was just about to look at them when I saw the door handle move. I sank back in my seat, having just had time to resume my book before the Count, holding still another letter in his hand, entered the room. (Count Dracula, Bram Stoker, May 12).
• Then she swept toward the door with her empress air, the rather shabby, dark dress making a swirl behind her; and as she got there she turned and spoke again, with her hand on the bronze tracery of the fingerplate, making, unconsciously, a highly dramatic picture, as a sudden last ray of the sinking sun shot out and struck the glory of her hair, turning it to flame above her brow (The Reason Why , Elinor Glyn).
• But Hodder was thinking of that house whither they were bound with a new gratitude, a new wonder that it should exist. Thus they came to the sheltered vestibule with its glistening white paint, its polished name plate and doorknob (The inside of the cup , Winston Churchill).