It used to be pretty common to see that on bathroom doors…silver inside the bathroom, I guess to match chrome fixtures, and gold on the other side to match the rest of the door hardware throughout the house. It drove me nuts, too, so I systematically worked my way through our last house switching them all out. I’d read that spraying knobs is a temporary fix but the paint tends to fail after a while. Spraying hinges works well as they don’t come in contact with oils from hands as much as knobs.

I am thinking of trying the hinges someday! Also check out the comments on Facebook about this post — at least one person has tried painting (with a brush) her doorknobs successfully!
https://www.facebook.com/TatertotsandJello/photos/a.608100622572282.1073741825.111515425564140/623646474351030/?type=1&stream_ref=10

http://www.dragonfliesandthistles.blogspot.com/2014/02/dollar-store-glass-planters.html

Either way it still looks great! I only mention my desire for changing the hinges also, only because in the house we recently purchased there are several doors that have mismatched hardware. so mismatched that on a couple of the doors one side of the door knob is silver while the other side is gold. It drives me nuts! I would love to change them all out, but am not ready for the project yet. I may look into painting them like some of the FB comments mentioned.

We didn’t go for anything fancy – -these are from Lowe’s and were about $11: http://www.lowes.com/pd_279811-51800-TFX710_4294654475__?productId=3142297

Because the rest of the project was so involved we decided not to swap out the hinges … yet. We may just paint them instead of buying new ones – then we wouldn’t have to do as much work!