WM - Kwikset Milan Lever with Round Rose Half Dummy in Bright Chrome

A half dummy is a pull only. The Milan lever with round rose, model 157MIL-RDT-26, mounts a single lever on one face of the door with no latch, no spindle through the door, and no moving mechanism. It surface mounts and is used on a fixed or inactive panel of a double door, on a closet or pantry door with a magnetic or roller catch, or wherever you need a matching lever for appearance only. If the door has to latch, you need a passage, privacy, or keyed-entry Milan lever instead.

No cross bore is needed. The Milan round rose half dummy fastens to the door face, so it can go on a solid, undrilled door, and it does not care about backset or door thickness the way a latching lever does. It will also cover an existing rose footprint if you are converting an old opening to a dummy pull, as long as the previous 2-1/8 inch bore sits behind the rose.

Not handed in the usual sense. Because a half dummy has no latch and no spindle, you simply mount the Milan lever with the handle pointing toward the direction of pull you want, so one part works on a left hand or right hand leaf. On a pair of doors most installers mirror the two levers so they point away from the meeting stile.

The 157MIL-RDT-26 is Bright Chrome, Kwikset's 26 finish code, which is the polished chrome used across their lever lines. It matches other Kwikset levers ordered in 26 Bright Chrome. It will not match Satin Chrome or Satin Nickel, which are brushed and noticeably duller side by side, so if the rest of the doors are brushed, order the Milan in that finish rather than this one.

A half dummy gives you one lever on one side of the door. A full dummy gives you a lever on both faces. For a closet or pantry door pulled from the hallway only, the half dummy is the right part. For a pair of french or double doors where the inactive leaf gets pulled from both sides, you need two half dummies or a full dummy set. Model 157MIL-RDT-26 is the single-side half dummy.

Use it only on the non-latching leaf of an opening that is already secured another way. A half dummy provides no latch, no deadlocking, and no security, so it is not an exterior entry solution on its own. On a fire door assembly, positive latching is required by code, so a dummy pull cannot serve as the latching hardware on that leaf.

The Milan is a lever, not a knob, so it is operable with a closed fist or a forearm, which is the reason levers are specified on accessible routes. Keep in mind that as a half dummy it is just a pull, so there is nothing to operate, the accessibility benefit is in the gripping shape rather than in any latch action.