Choosing a Chandelier

Don’t you always envision the chandelier as belonging to the most opulent grand home in the neighborhood?

Chandeliers offer elegance, style and visions of royal style living when you see them in your mind, or in a home.

Regardless of how new the glassware chandelier is, it still seems to reproduce the aura of being of another time and another place, where life was grander and far more elegant than it is now; a bygone era that many are seeking now to reproduce.

If you are searching for the look of days gone for your home or vacation cottage, a chandelier will be among the first things you will search for.

Antique shops will be your first line to finding what you are searching for. Granted that those who shop in well known antique shops will most likely find a piece whose cost will be a bit more, they will be an easier find for you.

But for those who want to find something within a certain price range, where can you look? Estate sales will very often garner some wonderful old lighting pieces, chandeliers among them.

If you are willing to use a piece that is modern day your costs will be cut significantly and you can still get the same look as those which were made in other centuries.

There are several tips to keep in mind when seeking a chandelier to look the part of an older one.

Firstly, stay away from those which are polished steel or chrome. They are more art deco or post modern than the one you are seeking. Look for ornate pieces, with drippings of glassware, or wrought iron. Candle chandeliers will always impart a feel of an older world.

Choose one of these and it can easily be made to use electric with minimal wiring and effort.

Antique chandeliers were traditionally made of crystal, iron, rusted metals or wood, and sometimes even antlers, but very rarely or never were they shiny in looks or smooth in their feel.

To replicate the older look and feel, study the antique chandeliers in images or online and then even if you are using something made in amore modern time, to gain the look you want, you will want to replicate the materials in the chandelier that you purchase.