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.
Brass Light Gallery
Interior and exterior architectural lighting for your home and garden, in styles from Victorian to '30s Modern. Select from 15 finish options. Made in USA since 1974. They also have a vintage/antique lighting department, and offer expert restoration services.
Unico System
A central heating and cooling system using "aspiration" technology to warm and cool homes evenly and quietly with flexible small ducts that weave through ceilings, walls, and even floors.
Authentic Designs Colonial Lighting
Authentic Designs makes reproductions of colonial and early American lighting fixtures. We began by researching the originals which we found in historic New England inns, museums and private collections, and now recreate them in perfect detail.
