Mortise - a square hole made to receive a tenon and so to form a joint....

I've received the beautiful mortise door locks from The House of Antique Hardware.  These are Arts & Crafts reproductions, genuine repros in every way, from their design, their weight, to their size - the only modern thing about them is the way I purchased them - on the internet - and their price - about $170 CDN each, when all's said and done.  And worth every penny, they are gorgeous!

These first two (I may get two more) will go on the green and blue bedroom doors.... if and when we open as a B&B, I think it's a given that people would want to lock their doors - and so they shall.  Two skeleton keys came with each door, hopefully we can have more made, as I'm sure one'll go missing at any given time.

This week Kee's also put a lock on the hall door of the blue bathroom - this bath is accessible from the hallway and the blue bedroom.  When the blue suite is being rented, the hall door can be locked to provide a complete ensuite, private bath... when it's not, that bath is another bathroom for us, with the small three piece bathroom in our wing of the cottage.

I'll eventually get the same locks for our bedroom and the small bedroom, maybe even the long hall closet.  If we decide to explore the options of whole or partial rental of the cottage, we should be able to lock whatever, wherever we want.