Vintage Lighting

Before the beginning of the twentieth century, amazing designers have made lamps and lighting fixtures that were designed to make your home look elegant and capture your imagination as well as our senses.

What is more beautiful than the constant sparkle of a crystal chandelier or more interesting than the bubbling lava lamps of the sixties. Vintage lamps can offer you the same feeling of peace that you get by staring into a flickering fire, or the sense of exhilaration that you get when you stare upward toward a magnificent lightning storm and the hairs raise on your neck.

For the most part, lighting your home is the function of lamps and lighting fixtures in general, but some lamps and lights are designed to do a great deal more. They warm your senses and bring about emotions that are pleasing. Lighting also brings out, if chosen correctly, certain areas of the home, accenting other colors, your particular style or offers up its own sense of style.

While lighting in the beginning was pure function, it changes and evolved to be more than simple function, and around the turn of the century, was style and appeal as well.  LIghting fixtures from this time period can be remarkable inexpensive, depending on who’s collecting, or they can be astronmically expensive, costing more than a down payment on a new home, depending on what you want to put into them.

Old Tiffany is, needless to say, costly and in high demand, but older chandeliers or even the lava lamps of the sixties can be had for a minimal price and bring about warm memories of your childhood or a favorite relatives home who used to have one.

Motion lamps, featuring some of the beautiful waterfall scenes, nature or wildlife will fit well into a room that is more outdoor in nature, while the lava lamps would accent a retro fifties or sixties room quite nicely and neither will cost you vast sums if you shop sites such as Ebay or other used lighting sites.

Collecting vintage or antique lamps can be as expensive or as inexpensive as you wnat it to be and offer up glimpses of a more colorful and more stylish past, when water flowing over Niagara falls could be viewed on your side table, or bubbling blue lava was the norm for every household. Consider vintage lamps as eye candy, and get out there and see what you can find.

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