Chosen in context—not from a picture alone.
Bring the cabinet door, drawer front, tile, flooring, plans, or inspiration. We help compare finish, scale, feel, and function across door, cabinet, and bath hardware.
Explore the showroom ↗Bay Area hardware expertise · Since 1986
Knowing what works since 1986.
Don’s Key & Lock has served the San Francisco Bay Area since 1986. What began with keys, locks, and the practical knowledge required to make an opening work has grown into three connected parts of one company: an architectural hardware showroom, a contract hardware and construction team, and a locksmith and security division.
The name stayed because it carries four decades of trust. The work grew because customers kept bringing us larger questions—from one hard-to-match handle to the plans for an entire building.
Our story
Built one working door at a time.
1986
Built on local service
Don’s earned trust by solving real door and lock problems for Bay Area homes and businesses—carefully, directly, and one opening at a time.
As we grew
Beyond keys and locks
Customers began relying on the same practical judgment for decorative hardware, complex openings, full-building packages, and long-term property service.
Today
One complete hardware company
Consultation, plans and elevation review, schedules and specifications, product selection, procurement, field verification, installation, service, and ongoing support.
One company · Three connected divisions
Hardware knowledge that stays with the project.
We work with homeowners, designers, architects, contractors, developers, building owners, and property teams. The scope changes. The standard does not: understand the opening, explain the options, coordinate the details, and stay available after installation.
Every opening accounted for.
We review plans and elevations, help develop hardware schedules and specifications, select and procure products, coordinate the package, walk the site, verify field conditions, and support installation and turnover.
See the complete package ↗The practical side never left.
Repairs, rekeying, master-key needs, hardware replacement and installation, smart locks, select access-control work, refinishing, and ongoing service for homes, businesses, and properties.
Explore service ↗The advantage is continuity.
One team can help make the early design decision, coordinate the building package, install the hardware, and service it years later. That means fewer gaps between how the hardware looks, how it works, and who stands behind it.
What clients can expect
Experienced enough for the details. Practical enough to explain them.
Listen first
We learn what you are trying to build, fix, preserve, or protect.
Explain clearly
We make complicated hardware choices easier to understand.
Follow through
We stay involved through ordering, field conditions, installation, and turnover.
Stay available
The same company can service the hardware after the project is complete.
The Don’s difference
Design sense with working-hardware judgment.
Hardware should look right, feel right, meet the building’s needs, and keep working. We bring those decisions together instead of treating them as separate problems.
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