Emtek Designer Brass Leverset - Milano Lever, Privacy Set

Yes. The Milano privacy lever uses standard door prep with a 2-1/8 inch cross bore, so it drops into an existing bored opening. The exception is the STRETTO rosette, which needs a 1-1/4 inch diameter bore and a 2-hole door preparation for the thumbturn privacy function. If your door is already bored 2-1/8 inch for a knob or lever, the brass rosette options here will cover it.

Both. The latch is adjustable for 2-3/8 inch or 2-3/4 inch backset, and backset is a required selection when you order. The standard latch ships set for 2-3/8 inch, so specify 2-3/4 inch if that is what your door is bored for. Those are the two backsets used on residential bored doors, so measure from the door edge to the center of the bore before choosing.

Non-keyed. It is a bed and bath privacy function: a thumbturn or button locks the lever from the inside and there is an emergency release on the outside instead of a key cylinder. Use it on bedrooms and bathrooms. If you need a key on the outside, you want an entry or keyed function lever rather than this one.

Yes, handing is a required choice, left hand or right hand. Stand on the outside of the door: if the hinges are on your left it is left hand, hinges on the right is right hand. Emtek levers are cast for the swing, so an unhanded return is not an option the way it is on many commercial Grade 2 levers such as the Falcon B101.

The Baldwin Estate 5103 privacy lever with the 5048 rose is the nearest decorative equivalent. Both are non-keyed privacy/bed/bath levers for interior bedroom and bath doors. The Emtek Milano privacy set is solid brass and offered in French Antique (US7), Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B), Pewter (US15A), Polished Brass - Lifetime (US3), Polished Chrome (US26), Satin Nickel (US15), and Unlacquered Brass (US3NL), with a choice of Lancaster, Ribbon & Reed, or Rope rosette. The Baldwin 5103 is supplied with its 5048 rose and is ordered in left hand or right hand half dummy versions separately if you also need dummy trim on a closet pair.

The Milano privacy set is a residential brass leverset with no ANSI/BHMA grade behind it, so for commercial traffic you should specify a graded cylindrical lock. For privacy function in a commercial restroom, the Hager 2540 is a Grade 2 cylindrical privacy lock with the Withnell lever and covers 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch doors, and the Arrow MK02-TA is a fire rated privacy cylindrical lock with a Tudor knob for 1-3/4 inch to 2 inch doors. Keep the Milano for guest suites, bedrooms, and baths where the brass finish and rosette styling are the point.

Use a passage function lever rather than the Milano privacy set, which is a privacy/bed/bath lock. In the same decorative family, the Baldwin Estate 5103 passage lever with the 5048 rose covers hall and closet openings. If the closet door only needs a pull with no latch at all, the Baldwin Estate 5103 half dummy is handed and ordered as left hand or right hand.

The Milano privacy set is non-keyed with a thumbturn privacy function, so it is not an entry lock. For a keyed decorative brass entry lever in a similar residential look, the Deltana 6201 Manchester and Deltana 6431 Linstead are entry function levers covering 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch doors. In commercial entry, the Hager 2525 is a Grade 2 cylindrical entry lock for 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch doors and the Cal-Royal AG00 is a Grade 2 entrance lever with a 6-pin Schlage C keyway on a 2-3/8 inch backset.

Specify a commercial privacy lock carrying a fire rating. The Arrow MK02-TA is a privacy/bed/bath cylindrical lock with a fire rating and a Tudor knob for doors 1-3/4 inch to 2 inch. If the fire rated opening is a passage rather than a privacy door, the Corbin Russwin CL3110 is a Grade 1 vandal resistant passage lever lock with a fire rating for 1-3/4 inch to 2 inch doors. The Emtek Milano privacy set is a residential brass leverset and is the right call on non-rated interior bedroom and bath doors.

Three choices. The standard latch is the conventional tubular latch. The 28 degree rotation latch shortens the lever swing needed to retract the bolt, which gives a lighter, shorter throw at the handle. The CF mechanism is the concealed fastener version, so the rosettes have no exposed screws for a cleaner face, and it always ships with the 28 degree latch. Pick CF if the visible screw heads on a standard rose would bother the client.

It is sold as a complete set: levers, the rosettes you select, the latch, and the strike plate. Nothing separate to order to hang it on a bored door. The latch faceplate is available round corner or square corner, so match it to the existing mortise in the door edge rather than rechiseling.

Within the same residential decorative bracket, the Baldwin Estate 5103 privacy lever with the 5048 rose is the closest equivalent, and Baldwin also offers it in passage and in left and right hand half dummy so you can carry one design across a run of doors. If budget matters more than solid brass, the Kwikset 300BRNL Breton privacy lever is a Grade 3 residential privacy set for 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inch doors.

The Kwikset 300BRNL RDT Breton privacy lever set is a Grade 3 privacy/bed/bath lock for doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch, with round trim and no rosette or finish selection to specify. The Emtek Milano privacy set by contrast is ordered with a finish, a handing, a rosette pattern, and a latch type, and is built in brass. If the door is a back-of-house bedroom or a rental unit where the trim does not need to match a decorative program, the Breton is the more direct order.

The Milano privacy set fits doors from 1-3/8 inch up to 2-1/4 inch thick with a standard 2-1/8 inch bore prep, so a 2 inch door is within range. If you instead need a graded commercial lever on that thickness, the Falcon K101 is a Grade 1 non-handed passage lock rated for 1-3/8 inch to 2-1/4 inch doors, and the Dexter C1000 asylum function lock covers 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch.

Two traps. Dummy levers such as the BEST 9K 1DT and the BEST 7KC 1DT single dummy trim have no latch and no privacy mechanism at all, so they cannot lock a bath door. And keypad levers like the Lockey 2835 and the Delaney LP250 are described as lever locks but are mechanical or electronic access devices, not a thumbturn privacy set. The Milano privacy set is a non-keyed privacy/bed/bath lock supplied complete with latch and strike plate.

On the Milano privacy set you get it by selecting the CF Mechanism option, which leaves the rosettes with no exposed screws and includes the 28 degree latch. Decorative peers such as the Baldwin Estate 5103 privacy lever are supplied with the 5048 rose as a fixed rose design, and commercial levers such as the Hager 2540 with the Withnell lever and the Design Hardware J75 flat lever use standard rose trim. If concealed fastening is the requirement, order the Milano with the CF Mechanism.

The Baldwin Estate 5103 runs privacy, passage, and handed half dummy on the same 5048 rose, so bedroom, hall, and closet doors match. Bravura offers matching passage leversets across Miramar, Atlanta, Orlando, and Tampa in Grade 2 if you want round or square trim options. The Emtek Milano privacy set matches across a program by finish and rosette, offered in Lancaster, Ribbon & Reed, and Rope rosettes and seven brass finishes, and can be ordered with any brass rosette.