Antique Lighting Styles

Antique Lighting - Antique Lighting Styles

When looking for antique lighting fixtures, you should try to find pieces that are complete and ready to be installed. It could be really difficult to find the missing element of some antique lighting fixtures that aren’t complete, for instance with missing glass shades.

Some sites specialize in particular types of antique lighting fixture, such as gothic candlesticks, chandeliers, sconces, tables lamps, and gas light fixtures made in the USA during a certain period, for example from the mid nineteenth century to the beginning of the 20th century. Other antique dealer sites specialize in British, French, Dutch lights from earlier periods.

(Antique Lighting - Italian Rococo Style Sconce 20th Century - $500 opening bid)

The style of antique lighting can be broad, from Rococo, Gothic, Victorian, Edwardian, Renaissance Revival, Exotica, Neoclassical, and Eastlake, Moorish to the Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Aesthetic Movement. You can also even find some sites that occasionally offer replicas when more than one piece in necessary. Such sites, thanks to their many contacts can often even find the rare fixture than you are looking for.

Some sites have a very large inventory of antique lighting fixtures, including wall brackets, floor lamps, billiard lamps, piano lamps, organ lamps, desk lamps, table lamps, post lamps, rolltop desktop lamps and gimbel lights from ships. Some sellers offer massive chandeliers for ballrooms, or medium size chandeliers more adapted to the dining room or the living room. You even can find small chandeliers for bedrooms or bathrooms.

(Antique Lighting Gilt Bronze Chandelier)

There are also antique exterior lighting fixtures to light the outside of your home. These lights include antique wrought-iron hanging lights and sconces, as well as bronze and copper hanging lights and sconces to put in your porch. You can also look for antique lanterns and post lights for your porch and loggia.

Apart from the sites selling antique lighting fixtures on the Internet, you can of course visit show rooms. Some of which are advertised on the net. If you want original antique lights, take your time, inquire and only buy one that has a warranty of authenticity from experts in the field that have built a reputation for integrity over a long time.

Finally, beware of sites that claim to sell antiques, but offer only new reproductions with some small antique elements in them.

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Choosing Antique Lighting Fixtures

Antique Lighting - Best Lighting Fixtures and Antique Chandeliers to Choose

Whether you want to create a genuine antique setting or want replicas or reproduction to create a style, you will find a lot of sites on the internet on which to browse and buy antique lighting fixtures.

Some companies can offer advice and help in your search, such as the Antique Lighting Co. which will give you some guidelines on how to find better lighting. To them Ambient fill-in lighting is one of the most important elements to consider. They also explain that to obtain this effect you should use a soft white light washing the ceiling into the corners of the room and bouncing off the walls. Antique lighting sconces are great to create this effect

(Antique Lighting - Pair of SGD Caldwell Huge Bronze 12 Arm Antique Chandeliers sold recently at auction by C&C Auctions for $20,000)
When lighting the dining room for instance what do you want? A drop or a chandelier? If you chose a chandelier, the electric bulbs should be of low voltage. And to provide fill light, you should add sconces. You’ll have to take into account the height of the ceiling and the width of the table to chose the height and the diameter of the light fixture. On the other hand the drop bowl, will give your room a marvellous source of light which is not direct and washes the whole room.

To light the kitchen antique lighting pendants are perfect over islands, open counters or sinks as they are a good source of light for performing kitchen tasks under. These can be supplemented by light over cabinets that don’t light the ceiling.

In the bedroom at least one kind of sconce has to be used to give a fill light effect, otherwise the lighting fixtures should reflect the taste and needs of the people who use the room. Lighting fixtures near the bed will be needed.

(Antique Lighting - Gilt Bronze 6 Arm with Eagle Head Antique Chandelier sold recently for $1057 by C&C Auctions)

The exterior lighting is quite important as it makes your house safe and inviting. There are antique lighting lanterns for the porch and entrance of the house, although you will have to find these on other sites as the Antique Lighting Co. doesn’t seem to have any, at least not on their site directory.

Finally, you need to check the materials - most antique chandeliers were made from brass, wrought iron, bronze, nickel, and crystal. If you see so-called antique lighting made from polished steel, then look elsewhere.
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