Hardware to wear

Nut-and-bolt wedding bands, charm tools, the perfect T, and other haute home improvement-themed gifts for the tool lover in your life-or yourself

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A Perfect Fit

Because this is a family magazine, we'll leave it up to your imagination to decide why the groom wears the bolt and the bride wears the nut in this pair of interlocking 24-karat gold wedding bands. Though the stone sits in the man's ring, when the rings are screwed together it rests against the woman's finger. It's a match made in heaven. (Or a hardware store.) Starts at about $2,500 for the pair; Kiley Granberg

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Charm Tools

Lots of folks make ornamental screwdrivers and hammers, but nobody digs quite as deep into toolbox obscurity as Rembrandt Charms. For the truly bedecked bracelet, they offer a sparkling chain saw, a paint roller in its tray, an anatomically accurate circular saw, and an assortment of wall-finishing tools that includes a brush and taping knife. Available in sterling silver, gold plate, and 10- or 14-karat gold. About $20 to $40 for sterling and gold plate, $140 and up for solid 10- or 14-karat gold; Rembrandt Charms

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The Work Shirt

If your shop were as thoroughly equipped as this ladies' T-shirt, you'd be ready for anything. The tool top of course features wrenches, nuts, clamps, and bolts, but it also has a few Band-Aids and even some iodine-for "those times that we've injured ourselves with these very same tools," the maker says. About $24; Etsy

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Haute Hardware

The toolbox bling sold by Los Angeles artist Nicola Vruwink draws comment even before you hear the names of her creations. From left, you're looking at "I Saw You," "Screw It," and "Let's Get Hammered." While we're at it, let's get some of these around the burly necks of our favorite contractors-the TOH TV crew. About $92 each; Nicola Vruwink

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