Hello, I'm slowly replacing all the interior doors hinges in my house. These new standard ones are a nice steel with satin nickel finish and look loads better. But I seem to have an issue. I've replaced 5 doors by myself so far; but a few of my doors now slightly swing shut- when they didn't before. All the hinges and such are in the same place and they are of the same size as before, so I'm curious why this happens. I figure it is a weight displacement issue, maybe I did something wrong along the way or there is a better way to do this. I just want the doors to stay open like they did before, but with the new hinges. (I don't want to have to go buy a bunch of door stops to keep the doors open.) [U]This is how I do it: (I hope I explain this well enough)[/U] The door is fine before I started to work on it. I remove the door off the 2 hinges by pulling out the pins and then unscrewing the hardware fastener hinges. Next, I screw the separated hinges to the door after I pop out the pins to grease them up. Then, since I'm doing this myself, I install the separated hinge to the top of the frame. Then I carefully lift the door into place so the hinge on the door matches with the top hinge on the door frame. Then I pop in the greased pin and with a wedge, hold the door in place. I make sure the bottom hinge on the door will meet up with the bottom door frame hinge area. I then screw in the bottom hinge into the door frame, making sure it still matches up with the bottom door hinge. Then I fit the 2 bottom hinges together and I pop in the pin. Am I doing the process incorrectly or is there a better way to do this by myself. I've see Andy Griffith fix this on Matlock, by popping out the pins and giving them a slight bend and popping them back in. Is this my solution? Thanks for the help.

Any ideas on how to make inexpensive galvanized steel strap hinges look like old dark antique hinges? I'm using them on my exterior shutters for the look only and I cant see spending $16 each for the old iron ones. I don't want to just paint them black. I'd rather have that dark rust or bronze distressed look. Just wondering if theres a chemical or coating that would give me that look and not wear off in the elements.