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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.
Repurposed Elevator Indicator Lights
Industrial-chic, oversize wall sconces can be made from repurposed elevator indicator lights.
Sconces, Lamps, and Pendants
See traditionally-designed sconces, lamps, and pendants.
Restoring Antique Lighting
Regardless of the condition, restoring antique lighting fixtures is one of the best ways to maintain your old house’s original character. Here we give you an enlightening tutorial about saving vintage fixtures: safety, cleaning, replacing missing parts, and special finishes.
Lighting 1910 to 1930
Endlessly inventive, Teens and Twenties lighting fixtures still appeal today.
Traditional Lighting Fixtures
Illuminate the night with these beautiful traditional lighting fixtures.
Arts & Crafts Interior Ideas
More than a century after the movement began, artisans continue the exploration.
Nautical Lights Ahoy
Mid-20th-century ship lights are rewired and polished up to become attractive wall sconces or lamps.
High Tech, Historical Revival Lighting
Lighting has always been driven by technology and available sources of energy. As tech got more advanced there was an explosion of innovation in the shapes, styles, and placement of light fixtures and lamps.
Period Lanterns
The entryway or porch light looks right when it illuminates the style antecedents of the house. Early lighting designs in copper or iron have been joined by lantern types patterned on those in French monasteries, English castles, and California’s iconic Arts & Crafts houses.
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.
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.
How To Rewire an Antique Light Fixture
When original lighting fixtures flicker and fail, restore them to good working order by rewiring.
Restoration Resources
Restoration Resources is renowned nationwide as a retail treasure-trove...showcasing unique artifacts, antique decorative salvage, architectural and ornamental building elements, vintage statuary, and choice old house parts, hardware, and fixtures.
