Antler lamps are attractive & wonderful for enhancing western home decor. So much more than average home lighting, antler lamps add charm to your home decor. If you have a mountain cabin or southwestern home, the rustic character of antlers with their unique shapes and variations in natural color will give your area the unique old west style you desire.
Use Antler Lamps For Beautiful Mountain Interior Design
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Craig_Chambers]Craig Chambers
Antler lamps are wonderful for enhancing western home decor. So much more than average home lighting, antler lamps add charm to your environment. If you have a mountain cabin or southwestern home, the rustic character of antlers with their unique shapes and variations in natural color will give your area the unique old west style you desire.
Ranch owners as well as those designing modern log homes have used antler lamps for years as the beautiful rustic lighting to complete their ranch style home design. Because of the natural shape of antler lamps and chandeliers there is a unique beauty in the antlers themselves that wonderfully goes along with any variety of ranch style furniture. There is something dynamic about antler lamps that combines all the elements and gives off a sophisticated country feel within the room. Antler lamps have a unique quality about them that easily enhances rustic beauty in any environment.
Antler lamps also go along with many other rustic elements in home interior design. In the Northern states or "north woods" antlers may be put on snow shoes and complimented with rawhide lamp shades to fashion beautiful wall sconces. The light colored wood and rawhide lacing of the snow shoe, along with the leather binding and pleasant glow of the rawhide shade, make it a wonderful harmony. Weather you prefer to adorn your antler lamp with rustic light rawhide shades or western style dark rawhide lampshades, the choice is yours and the result will be beautiful.
Smaller antler chandeliers are sometimes made from whitetail deer antlers while large chandeliers may have many tiers of huge elk antlers. Weather your area is large or small an antler chandelier will enhance western decor.
In Jackson Hole, WY the downtown is embellished with arches made from Elk antlers. It is certainly one of a kind and you can create the same rustic look with antler lamps. Small lamps can be made from whitetail deer antlers while large chandeliers may have tiers of elk antlers with rawhide lampshades. One of the most sought after lamps is made with moose antlers, recognizable with their broad dark palms and beautiful dark rawhide lamp shades.
Throughout the year, groups and associations like the Boy Scouts will search for the prized sheds. If you ever find antler sheds in the wild, it is a thrilling event. Antler lamps bring that same spirit in your home and can change your home's atmosphere in a most exciting way.
Antlers are available in different qualities that are graded like rare coins. The best quality is awarded an "A" grade. The grading criteria, indirectly, has to do with the amount of time the sheds lie on the ground before found. The longer they are left on the ground, the more they lose their quality. Newer antler sheds will be a darker brown color. Sheds that are not discovered quickly will begin to fade in the sun until they are a chalky white. Another reason they loose their quality is because of chew marks from small rodents and stains from wet ground or moss.
There are also varying forms of making the antler lamps themselves. Some lamp makers simply glue the antlers together. Others may lash them together with rawhide thong for a western look. And some of the most appealing antler lamps may use a combination of glue, screws and lacing, with the holes sealed for a natural look. Better quality lamps will almost always use rawhide lamp shades.
Each antler is slightly varied than any other, so each antler lamp is a unique treasure and works wonderfully for rustic lighting. Try antler lamps with rawhide lamp shades in your home to create true rustic charm and to give it that warm, inviting look and feel that everybody loves.
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Rustic Chandeliers: A Buyer's Guide
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Jennifer_Bailey]Jennifer Bailey
Rustic chandeliers are ideal for a lodge or a cabin, as they provide adequate lighting and lend a rustic look to the surroundings.
If one would like a woodsy look, one could choose chandeliers designed with a pine, cedar, or chestnut finish. Rustic pine chandeliers are made of cast fiber and a timber slice finish, a metal base with wrought iron armature, and hand painted laced lampshades. One could get a 4 light pine cone chandelier with dangling pinecones or go in for ponderosa pine cone chandeliers, where the base of the lights are shaped like pine cones.
In cedar log chandeliers, one can get 5 downward lights and an aspen bronze finish with rustic Scavo glass, or a 9-light chandelier with hand painted copper claret finish and
buckskin leather shades. The chestnut chandeliers with 5 lights (single tier) or 9 lights (double tier) have a chestnut finish with gold dust glass for shades.
One could go for ?bear creek? 3-light, 5-light (upward /downward), or even 9-light fixtures with two tiers sporting an antique bronze finish with champagne frost glass. Or one may prefer a Brownstone 3-light or 5-light (upward/downward), or even a 15-light fixture with three tiers and champagne frosted glass.
If one wants a wild life feel, one could go for the antler or the buckhorn chandeliers. Antler chandeliers come in 5-light or 6-light designs, giving the impression of real antlers with a faux antler finish and with natural faux ostrich leather shades.
One may prefer the soft impression of candlelight with candlelight/casa chandeliers.
Fixtures with 6 lights or 9 lights (two-tier) come in a natural iron finish with rustic candle style glass. The casa chandeliers have 3-light, 5-light, or 9-light (two tier) options with an olde black finish and rust Scavo glass. [http://www.e-chandeliers.com]Chandeliers provides detailed information on chandeliers, crystal chandeliers, antler chandeliers, candle chandeliers and more. Chandeliers is affiliated with [http://www.i-ceilingfans.com]Kids Ceiling Fans .
Antler Shed Hunting Soon To Arrive In The Northeast
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Alan_Jackson]Alan Jackson
Spring is just around the corner here in the northeast, and as the snow dwindles down, it is time to go hunting. For antler sheds that is. Here is just a small sample that I pulled from a Google search.
Antler Chandeliers on sale
Whitetail Antler Chandeliers starting at $339.99. Whitetail.
Did you notice starting at $399.00. I have seen them in shops in Telluride Colorado, as high as $3500.00. So as you can see it is a great little hobby to get into, if you are good at using your hands and imagination.
Here in the northeast hunting for antler sheds can be quite a task. Snow plays a big factor in finding sheds. However, as the snow recedes in the spring, antlers begin to show up, in around deer yards. The deer tend to yard together in areas as deep snow arrives. Often times it isn't uncommon to see herds of 2 or 300 in an area.
Talk to your local deer biologist in your area, and you may be able to find a bunch of sheds to start in this hobby. As you can see it can be very profitable.
Sheds can be made into lamps as well. Some local crafters also create knives, and use the antlers as knife handles. Your imagination can lead to some really beautiful creations, that can command a pretty high price.
If your not the type that likes to search for antlers, you can always put an ad in your local paper and offer to buy antler sheds from those that enjoy searching for them. If you live in a cold climate and get snow, the best time to search for sheds is coming rite up shortly. Mice and squirrels tend to chew up the sheds if they aren't retrieved beforehand.
Also as the snow recedes and you can get around pretty good, even without snowshoes. If you search before the snow is completely gone you can find the deer tracks and the sheds quite easily.
As the weather warms up it is a great way to get a little exercise and enjoy the great outdoors.
Don't forget to take along a camera.
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