Interior Lighting

Ideas for interior lighting designs for historic homes, including historic reproductions, lanterns, pendants, wire-armed chandeliers, mica shades, and sconces.

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Endlessly inventive, Teens and Twenties lighting fixtures still appeal today.

By Mary Ellen Polson

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Illuminate the night with these beautiful traditional lighting fixtures.

Inspired by a billiard fixture, the ‘North’ from Rejuvenation is casual yet period over a kitchen counter.

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Whether your taste runs to colonial wire-arm chandeliers or hammered copper with mica shades, period-inspired lighting is easy to love. But are reproductions really functional in this age of halogen lamps and organic LEDs?

A variety of salvaged ship lights hang on a wall at Olde Good Things in New York.

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Mid-20th-century ship lights are rewired and polished up to become attractive wall sconces or lamps.

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They still make bridge lamps.

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Lighting and hardware inspiration for your next interior design project.

Ceiling pendant with a hurricane shade by The Mine.

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Brilliant tiles, lighting and ornaments.

Lights flanking a mirror cut down on harsh shadows and offered optimum illumination for grooming. The shades here-called turtles because of their resemblance to the critter-could also be mounted facing the wall, and often sat on brackets made of porcelain that featured convenient, built-in electrical outlets. Photo Courtesy of Linda Svendsen

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When it comes to lighting bathrooms of the 1930s and '40s, you can't go wrong with a little Modern design.

With a chisel-punched shade and glass reservoir base, House of Antique Hardware’s Electrified ‘Cupid’ lamp is a revival of an authentic oil lamp design.

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Based on the idea that rustic materials—punched tin, seedy glass—make for a period type, Farmhouse Style is a new lighting craze.

Hardware & Metalwork

Make an electrical outlet or switch disappear by painting or wallpapering it to match the wall. (Wallpaper gets dirty fast, so make two and store one for later.) Alternately, these decorative covers turn the switch plate into an architectural detail.

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Exceptional early American lighting is still made by craftspeople like Chris Burda, owner of Period Lighting Fixtures in Clarksburg, Massachusetts.

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How to create a light fixture from salvaged metal.

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They still make gaslight-era lighting fixtures.

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They still make pushbutton switches.

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Those 1920s designs mislabeled "Victorian" are pleasing to our eyes--but don't you want to know what really shaded your 1886 or 1905 lamp?

Traditional sconces flank a bathroom mirror.

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For more than 40 years, Steve Kaniewski of Brass Light Gallery has been producing works of art in light fixtures.

In the original great room of an Arts & Crafts house, very plain lamps on industrial arms throw light toward the beautifully stenciled ceiling. Antique lamps add ambiance.

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High-tech lighting illuminates places that period lamps don’t reach.

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Learn more about what influenced lighting designs between 1865 and 1970 with this illustrated timeline.

The Space Age had a profound impact on mid-20th-century lighting.

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A look at how lighting fixtures changed over the course of a century.

An ornate brass chandelier with candles in an 18th-century room is the early American ideal.

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Chandeliers are the apex of "colonial" lighting, but many beloved designs date to after the Revolution, even well into the 19th century.

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Good lighting does more than just illuminate a space—if that were the case, we’d all be content to light our rooms with nothing more than a bare bulb on a string.

A trio of low-voltage ‘Adler’ pendants from Wilmette Lighting, fitted with the fluted amber ‘Blossom’ shade.

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Newfangled lighting systems, once the scourge of old-house renovation, have become period friendly—or at least less obtrusive.

The lighting in Chuck and Judy Kohlhaas’ kitchen is all vintage—the 1920s Art Deco fixtures, which Judy found on eBay, were salvaged from an old theater.

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Narrow down the choices with these tips on what to look for in vintage and reproduction lighting.

The company has skilled craftspeople such as Roz Cristinson, shown here gilding a fixture by hand, to create one-of-a-kind pieces.

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One couple’s passion for beauty evolves into a vocation to produce period-inspired lighting.

The ‘George,’ an industrial brass shade from Rejuvenation, is most colorfully available in five high-gloss enamels and more than a dozen metallic finishes.

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