Lighting 1910 to 1930
Endlessly inventive, Teens and Twenties lighting fixtures still appeal today.
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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Traditional Lighting Fixtures
Illuminate the night with these beautiful traditional lighting fixtures.
Period Lighting Choices for Your Old House
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?
Nautical Lights Ahoy
Mid-20th-century ship lights are rewired and polished up to become attractive wall sconces or lamps.
Lighting & Hardware Inspiration
Lighting and hardware inspiration for your next interior design project.
Art Deco Lighting for the Bathroom
When it comes to lighting bathrooms of the 1930s and '40s, you can't go wrong with a little Modern design.
Farmhouse Lighting
Based on the idea that rustic materials—punched tin, seedy glass—make for a period type, Farmhouse Style is a new lighting craze.
Switchplates with Style
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.
Wire-Arm Chandeliers
Exceptional early American lighting is still made by craftspeople like Chris Burda, owner of Period Lighting Fixtures in Clarksburg, Massachusetts.
Lighting Whimsies from Another’s Junk
How to create a light fixture from salvaged metal.
Lampshades Come to Light
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 Trades: Brass Light Gallery
For more than 40 years, Steve Kaniewski of Brass Light Gallery has been producing works of art in light fixtures.
6 Ways to Integrate Modern Lighting into Old Houses
High-tech lighting illuminates places that period lamps don’t reach.
A Timeline of Lighting History
Learn more about what influenced lighting designs between 1865 and 1970 with this illustrated timeline.
100 Years of Lighting Designs
A look at how lighting fixtures changed over the course of a century.
The Best Chandeliers for Colonial-Era Houses
Chandeliers are the apex of "colonial" lighting, but many beloved designs date to after the Revolution, even well into the 19th century.
Room-by-Room Lighting Guide
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.
High-Tech Lights with Old-House Style
Newfangled lighting systems, once the scourge of old-house renovation, have become period friendly—or at least less obtrusive.
Kitchen Lighting: Antique or New?
Narrow down the choices with these tips on what to look for in vintage and reproduction lighting.
Traditional Trades: Reproduction Lighting
One couple’s passion for beauty evolves into a vocation to produce period-inspired lighting.
Vintage Doors
Bring beauty and value your home with heirloom-quality REAL wood doors by Vintage Doors. Meticulously handmade by expert craftsmen in your exact size and style—to be loved and respected for generations, just like the olden days. Hand-crafted wood product line includes: screen doors, storm doors, Dutch doors, French doors, louver doors, pantry doors, interior doors, exterior doors, entrance units, three season porch enclosures, pet doors, arch top doors, round top doors, custom doors and more.
Nostalgic Warehouse
Classic-style door hardware, engineered for new construction or historic renovation, lacquer-coated, solid brass, patterned after original antique hardware, passage, privacy, mortise lock, or dummy sets and cabinet hardware and accessories.
Pewabic Pottery
Pewabic fabricates heirloom quality architectural tiles for public and private installations, gift and commemorative tiles, vessels, gardenware, ornaments and both reproductions and adaptations of its historic designs and offers classes, workshops, lectures, internships and residency programs for studio potters and other artists.
