Old-style houses are filled with character and old charm, and the best way to demonstrate such a place is with the help of vintage lamps. These lamps indirectly highlight the nooks, cracks and architectural details of your heritage style house, just like with candlelight, when the house was probably built for the first time.
Remember that just eighty years ago, most homes began to receive electricity. Before that, the lamps were burning with wax or gas.
Indoor lights, which may be most appropriate for the historic style of the house, are likely to be a pendant lamp with shades of glass, metal or porcelain, as this controls the flame of candles.
Think about getting a big fancy colored ball for large rooms, such as a living room, and place them with incandescent lights to mimic the warm yellow soft light of gas or candles. In fact, the painted ball was an ordinary gift for the newlyweds at the turn of the century.
If the flowering of your home was during gas lighting, then you might want to choose lamps that mimic the look of a gas lamp. These would be fixtures that would extend far from the wall if they were branes and rather far from the ceiling in the case of a chandelier.
Today, the lighting fixture actually consists in looking in which direction the shades are located, and if they are cups, they are suitable for older homes, and if they point down, then they are better for a newer home.
The invention of electricity bought a boon for home design between 1890 and 1920. This was called the Arts and Crafts movement, and all kinds of glass and metal shades were invented to house the new light bulb. So if your house was built at this time, then Tiffany-style lamps or glass lampshades could look best.
After World War I, Art Deco designs took over, and the glass light bulb was engraved and molded into a zigzag, crescent, and sunbeams. If your house was built in the 1920s – 1940s, Art Deco lamps would look more appropriate and complement the decor of the surroundings.
If you find an antique lamp dating from before 1920, there is one important thing to remember. You cannot use light bulbs that are stronger than 15 watts, or you can cause a fire. If the lamp has been antique since the 1920s, then stay safe and use only a 40-watt light bulb. Lamps
who could safely receive a 100-watt light bulb, did not appear until the early sixties, and even then you should carefully check the antique lamp to see if instructions have been written somewhere about what kind of lamp power should be installed. Of course, one way to avoid all this fuss would be to simply
buy the retro-style recreation you want so you can use any type of light bulb you like.
In our modern world, with a light touch of a button, it is easy to forget that, until the 19th century, the production of light was a costly, cumbersome and dirty process. We forget that our grandchildren and other predecessors, most likely, stumbled in the dark, nothing but a candle and its small flame, providing for them the only source of light.
Over time, many different types of lamps came and went away, such as torches with a flame, collection vessels for tablets, wax candles, oil lamps, paraffin lamps, then gas, and finally electricity.
As electricity became available with ease, it was quickly perceived as an exciting and revolutionary way of enriching the home environment, creating lighting fixtures that looked decorative, but also provided good light quality for the home.
As a result, the design of the lamp and other lighting devices has undergone many different stages. We know about some old vintage lamps with a lot of love and a touch of nostalgia.
