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Antiques Glass Oil Lamps And Contemporary Home Decor Can Blend

Monday, February 02nd, 2009 | Author:

Contemporary home decor is, of course, very relative notion. What is contemporary for you will be old-fashioned for your children. Now contemporary home decor means glass, minimalism, and plenty of storage for electronics. If you think that there is no place for your family heirlooms in the modern design of your house, think twice and you will find a way to integrate great-grandmother’s Victorian into a 21st century home.


Small Things

Some small antiques not only blend into contemporary home decor, but can even enhance it. Glass vases, antique glass oil lamps, silver, and textiles designed with clean lines and classic style are easy to use. The fabrics in many old quilts, for example, tend to be more neutral from a time before very vibrant dyes were invented. Geometric patterns are the easiest to sew – perfect for contemporary home decor.

Primitive pieces are also wonderful accents in a contemporary home. An oversized, well-used dough trough is a perfect centerpiece on any large dining table. Fill it with something like sand or pebbles for a more modern look. Arrange bamboo in grandmother’s old milk churn; the contrast makes both look better.

Contrast is what makes the more overwrought pieces look their best. Aunt Mildred might want you to display the antique pink epergne she gave you, but where can such a big piece of ruffled, dainty pink glass fit in contemporary home decor? Hang it as a chandelier. Or, make a modern monochromatic ensemble. Let one shelf of the bookcase be the ‘pink’ department, and put all the pink there. Single-color groupings fit well in the contemporary home.

Furniture

Even antique furniture is quite easy to put into contemporary home decor. Many contemporary styles are inspired by the past in any case. Upholstered pieces like couches and chairs can be easily brought up to date. Replace seventies avocado or fifties floral with your own modern colors. Even pieces with elaborate carving can be toned down when matched with the right upholstery.

If there are big sets of antique furniture that look too country for your contemporary home decor, try and break them. A country table and six Windsor chairs don’t’ necessarily have to be used together – use the dining table and pair it with new upholstered chairs that fit the rest of your style. The chairs of the set can be placed in the other rooms of the house. This way allows ‘diluting’ the old-fashioned look of antique furniture and blending it better with your contemporary home decor.

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Decorating With Antique Lamps

Saturday, January 31st, 2009 | Author:

For several years, hurricane lamps were popular. With their large, blown-glass base, these lamps were popular before electricity, because their shape prevented the wind from extinguishing the flames from an oil or gas lit candle. Modern hurricane lamps are available to be used with votive lights, tower candles and even with real light bulbs. Shopping for a modern hurricane lamp is easy, and they look great with a beaded vintage lamp shade.


Some people choose to use antique lamps when they want to recreate or just remind themselves of Grandma’s house. Depending upon when you grew up, you might just want to pick up a set of those green or gold glass lamps. Popular from the 1940’s and 50’s when electricity was widely available, and technology was celebrated, these lamps have vibrant colors and patterns. You might want to take it to an electrician for a wiring update and a safety inspection. They can replace the bulb receptacle with an approved modern one and remove the old wiring in favor of newer wiring, without damaging the appearance of the lamp. Recreating special memories can be a safe and enjoyable way to relax.

Antique floor lamps are also beautiful, they can come in a stained glass style, like Tiffany lamp, or in one of many other styles. Reproductions are available, but are often made with different materials. Plastics and other composite materials that are widely available now were not available in the past and so you’re more likely to find metals, in a variety of finishes, rather than plastics. Lamp base styles were often of carved wood, metals, molded and hand-blown glass. Beaded Victorian lampshades go great with most antique lamps.

Whether you’ve chosen to go with an antique hurricane lamp, a vintage floor-standing Tiffany lamp, or a hanging lamp or even just vintage accent lamps, the distinctive styles of the old days will bring something special to your home. You can find antique lamps, reconditioned, from online vendors, you can also find reproductions. Keep your eyes open at Grandma’s house, in old pictures and at second hand stores, for just the perfect antique lamp for your home.

Author: Ellen Tayana

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Antique Lamps – The Latest Collecting Craze!

Friday, January 30th, 2009 | Author:

Antique porcelain lamps can be oil lamps or electric lamps, simply depending on when they were made and for what market. Some of these antique lamps are oil burning lamps. The most commonly recognized antique oil lamps are built with a large globe on the bottom and a smaller globe on top. Most of these are very decorative, with both globes painted, usually with floral designs.


Electric antique porcelain lamps are typically of a table lamp style, but are still well known for having painted designs and patterns on one or both globes. There is a wide and varied assortment of antique lamps that can be purchased from ‘Net sites, antique stores, or even (sometimes) at yard or garage sales. These lamps may be oil or electric, plain or fancy, but are almost always high quality, as well as a lovely addition to a room or house.

One of the most enduringly popular of all of the types of antique lamps is the banker’s lamp. A bankers lamp is normally constructed of a brass post with a green or blue glass shade. Today, the green shades are most common in reproduction lamps, but the blue shades were as common in the original type.

Antique porch lamps, which are very popular with designers today, were originally used not on porches, but in carriages. Carriage lamps were mostly made of brass, wrought iron, or wood, and were mounted on the carriage doors or side walls. The sturdy construction and design of the carriage lamps makes them well suited to their modern use as porch lights. They are usually seen mounted on either side of a door.

The antique torchiere lamp, the antique brass floor lamp, and the antique art deco lamp are some of the more modern antique lamps that are still very popular today. Torchiere lamps are very useful and easy to place, because they provide indirect bright light to a room or area without the trouble of installing overhead fixtures. Most antique lamps are quite ornate and beautiful, since they were considered to be a design feature, not just an appliance.

Antique brass floor lamps are very popular, partly because they are well made and sturdy, and partly because they are plentiful on the market. Brass floor lamps typically require little in the way of renovation; a bit of polishing, modern wiring, and perhaps a shade are all that is needed.

The beautiful designs of Art Deco lamps make them very valuable, not only as antiques, but also for the intrinsic design value of that period. Art Deco lamps might be made from brass, copper, mica, stained glass, or other aesthetically pleasing (and somewhat atypical) materials.

Antique kerosene lamps are well liked, not only for their value as antiques, but also for their beauty and functionality. The most popular type of antique oil lamp (from the late 1800’s) is the student lamp.

These student lamps were available as both single and double burner models. They were widely used because they threw very little shadow which made them ideal for their intended purpose as a reading and study lamp.

Author: Hwang Keum-Ok

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Antique Lamps Questions Answered

Thursday, January 29th, 2009 | Author:

Interest in collecting antique lamps is very high these days. In an effort to help those who might be interested in this area of antiques and collectibles, this article will attempt to address some of the common questions and answers associated with antique lamps –

Question: Which antique lamps are the most valuable?

Answer: There is no single make or style of antique lamp that is the most valuable. Those made by the Stiffel Company and Handel lamps are very popular, because they were very well made and beautiful. Antique brass floor lamps are very popular, as they are easily rewired and placed into every day use. Many styles of antique art deco lamps are also very well loved, in part because the style and artistic value is so high.

Question: Isn’t it best to collect antique oil lamps?

Answer: Antique oil lamps are certainly older, as a general rule, and might therefore be more valuable as antiques. However, the construction, materials and design of antique electric lamps make them very valuable as well. Two of the most popular antique oil styles are the antique bankers lamp and the antique student lamp.

Both are quite easy to find (because they were so very popular) and parts are fairly easy to find for them, which means that they can be restored to working condition very easily. Antique carriage lamps and other antique kerosene lamps are also quite easy to find and are highly valued. An antique porcelain lamp might also be very collectible. They can be oil or electric models. Either type is usually painted and fairly ornate.

Question: What kinds of antique electric lamps are valuable?

Answer: Antique torchiere lamps are very well liked. In addition to their distinctive look and decorative value, they are also high quality lighting fixtures, since they provide bright indirect lighting. Many varieties of antique porch lamps are also very attractive and sought after.

Question: What is the best way to get started with collectible antique lamps?

Answer: The most important things that a new collector can do are learn and compare. There are four excellent resources available to one who is interested in learning more about antique lamps.

There are lots of good books written about the subject, and those are available online or in local libraries. The Internet provides a perfect place for a collector to view samples and compare prices and quality. Antique malls and shops are also a great place to learn. Finally, a collector should always check out yard sales, garage sales, and flea markets for that rare (but very possible) treasure.

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Antique Oil Lamps History

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 | Author:

Oil lamps are one of, I think, the greatest inventions ever. Sure it seems like a simple and primitive device, but it also was the main provider of something we all have to have so we don’t run into walls or trip and break things we all need, LIGHT.

Antique Oil lamps predate prehistory and have always been used as a source of light. Oil lamps today are primarily used for alternative emergency lighting and mood setters. Other people collect antique oil lamps.

There are several types of fuel that are used with oil lamps. You’ve got olive oil that was the main fuel in the Western nations; people also used extracts like fish oil, nuts, plants, and petroleum. Egyptians were known to use castor oil and India was known to use sesame oil, peanut, or mustard.

Up until around the 3rd c. BC, oil lamps were made using the crude potter’s wheel. After that Greece and Egypt introduced to the world the use of molds to create their oil lamps. That was the primary way to create oil lamps up until the 8th century AD.

Although oil lamps were primarily used for light, they also served for funerary and votive purposes. Old oil lamps also played important roles in religion. Oil lamps bared a significant role in Christianity as lighting the way for the righteous and often buried with dead to light the way for the soul to the hereafter. In India, oil lamps were often kept lit during marriages to keep the evil away.

This being said, if you are able to obtain an antique oil lamp you are most likely also inheriting a rich history of culture from where it derived. It can give insight into the culture and social status of the previous owner or owners. Its nice having things of the old to reflect on and learn from.

Author: Brandon Lyles

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