Illuminate the night with these beautiful traditional lighting fixtures.

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?

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

They still make bridge lamps.

Lighting and hardware inspiration for your next interior design project.

Brilliant tiles, lighting and ornaments.

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

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

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.

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

How to create a light fixture from salvaged metal.

They still make gaslight-era lighting fixtures.

They still make pushbutton switches.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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