Residential & Commercial Security - Locks, Keys & Dead Bolts - Locked out....

My two small children succeeded in locking all of us out of their playroom and the keys are in the room!

I recently installed a Deviant Lockset to prevent them from getting in the room without my permission. How do I either pick the lock or remove the knob? The knob is a standard looking brass door knob which requires a key to unlock it. The inside knob has the standard thing that you move to a horizontal position for unlock and vertical for lock.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Beth

Picking locks is something very few people can do - if you had to ask how, you won't be able to do it. Other than calling a locksmith, the best suggestion I can think of is "The credit card method." You can open the lock by pushing against the latch if you can get to it. Look at a different door you can open and you'll see that one side of the latch is flat, but the side that faces the door jamb when the door is open is tapered, so it can be depressed by pushing the door closed. If you can get at it from the outside and push against it, it will retract into the door and disengage the lock. Most often used tool for this is a credit card, thus the name. A handy neighbor will probably know this trick already.

Welcome to the forum bethr1977!

mitch17 has some good suggestions and I would just add a couple of details.

Assuming an inswinging door, it may be hard to access the latch. Keyed locks will also have a deadlatch feature which, if aligned with the strike properly will defeat the credit card trick, if not aligned correctly then it may work.

You could remove the door stop trim and try and access the latch but this most likely will involve damage to the woodwork, depending on the age and finish.