Monday, January 2, 2012

Rawhide Lamp Shades For Rustic Lamps Create Beautiful Western Style

!±8± Rawhide Lamp Shades For Rustic Lamps Create Beautiful Western Style

Rustic lamps with rawhide lamp shades are a great choice in home lighting fixtures because they offer an easy way to create rustic charm and enhance southwestern style in a log cabin or ranch style home. While in the southwestern states, you will probably recognize the warm glow of rawhide lamp shades being used in the decorating style of many public places. Their rustic charm makes them a great choice in southwestern home decorating.

The wonderful thing about decorating with rawhide lamp shades is that they go well with rustic style accessories like drum tables, log furnishings, or antler lamps as well as with traditional style interiors. These lamp shades are also found in multi-colors that make it possible for designers to use any color pallet. If you are looking for a great way to use southwestern style in your design projects, you will like how these beautiful shades enhance rustic furniture and the way they simply bring a welcoming ambiance to your home.

When you are ready to buy rawhide lamp shades you will want to first consider the way your lamp will be used. Are they to be used on tall floor lamps to light a large space, or on small bedside lamps to illuminate a small corner? The shade you end up buying depends on how you plan to incorporate it in your decor. For instance, you may be illuminating a big area or just lighting a dark corner of the room.

Rawhide shades are also popular on antler chandeliers and antler lamps since they a standard for southwest home lighting fixtures. From simple table lamps to large wall sconces, leather lamp shades allow you to be flexible while providing great southwestern style at the same time.

The glow illuminated through the rawhide, gives your home an appealing warmth and creates a pleasant environment for your guests. The natural colors of the leather when lit by the light shining through, creates a striking and very appealing image. While it may not be the focus of your room, it will definitely add an abundance of character to your space. If you are including a lamp in your interior design, purchase a style and size that will be large enough to hold a larger size shade and one that gives off sufficient light.

Leather lamp shades are also perfect for other types of lighting like wall sconces and chandeliers. Because they are available in a variety of sizes, you will be able to find the right shade for any style lamp. Remember, when you are choosing the lighting for your home, the light from rawhide table lamp shades allows you to cut the bright glare and enjoy its charm while focusing it where you need it most. Light colored rawhide, sometimes called southwestern lamp shades, will let the maximum amount of light shine through while dark rawhide shades, called western lamp shades, are more subtle, producing a deeper color when the lamp is turned on.

The thing you will like most about the leather lamp shades you purchase online, is the ability to use them on traditional or rustic style lamps and with the decor you already have. Decorative antler lamps are a wonderful choice in home lighting fixtures because of the great ambiance they produce when matched with a rustic shade. You can also consider combining rawhide shades with heavy iron lamps for the perfect western design. You will be surprised at how simply switching the shade on modern style lamp you already own, can add variety to your whole decor.

The great variety of size and color allow these lamp shades to be utilized in practically any area where you want to add southwestern character or are enhancing the room with what has been called rustic chic style. Just as appropriate in the living room, family room or den as well as bedroom or study, rawhide shades can be used in just one room or used to give a western theme throughout your entire house.

One great thing about these shades is that you can purchase a great selection of rawhide shades at discounted prices when you shop online. Rawhide will produce a true southwestern feel in your home that you and your family will enjoy for years to come. Whether transforming the decor of an entire room or simply including a few rustic accessories, you will love the way southwest design can be created with rawhide lamp shades.


Rawhide Lamp Shades For Rustic Lamps Create Beautiful Western Style

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Monday, December 19, 2011

Isodore Drum Shade in White

!±8± Isodore Drum Shade in White

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SLD202 Features: -Shade. -White finish. -Faux silk shade. Specifications: -Shade dimension: 9.5'' H x 12'' Top Width x 14'' Bottom Width. -Overall dimensions: 9.5'' H x 14'' W x 14'' D.

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Monday, December 12, 2011

Lamp Shade Styles and Shapes

!±8± Lamp Shade Styles and Shapes

A little ground work for discussion: A shade basically has 3 measurements: top diameter, bottom diameter and side length. There are other measurements on complex frames which is another subject.

Here is a listing of many basic lamp shade styles:

1) Empire Lamp Shade- a round shape lamp shade with straight sloped side. The shade slope is not exaggerated but rather at a traditional angle, the most common type of shade found.

2) Bell Lamp Shade - the same as an empire lamp shade except the side is curved not straight.

3) Drum Lamp Shade - a round shape lamp shade with straight side where the top and bottom diameter are near each other crating a near cylindrical or drum type of shape.

4) Coolee Lamp Shade - a round shape lamp shade with straight or curved sloped side. The shade slope is exaggerated due the top diameter being much smaller than the bottom diameter thus resembling a Chinese coolee hat.

5) Square Lamp Shade - self explaining

6) Rectangular Lamp Shade - self explaining

7) Oval Lamp Shade - self explaining

8) Hexagon Lamp Shade - six sided lamp shade

9) Octagon Lamp Shade - eight sided lamp shade

10) Cut Corner Lamp Shade - the corners are cut straight across instead of a right angle.

11) Inverted Cut Corner Lamp Shade - the corners are cut inward in a curve instead of a right angle.

12) Out round Corner Lamp Shade - the corners are rounded outward in a curve instead of a right angle.

13) Scallop Top or Bottom Lamp Shade - the top or bottom edge is wavy or curved in a scalloped manner instead of being straight.

14) V Notch Lamp Shade - the top or bottom edge has a "V" shaped design instead of being straight.

15) Gallery Lamp Shade - the bottom edge has a wide gallery section which may have a different decorative treatment.

16) Fancy Square Lamp Shade - a square top bell shape lamp shade with square bottom where each bottom side has a single out scallop.

17) Bouillotte Lamp Shade - a short drum (or bell drum) lamp shade, named after the French card game where this lamp and shade were commonly found.

18) Junior Lamp Shade - a short drum (or bell drum) lamp shade made especially to fit a 6 way reflector floor lamp that became popular c 1930.

19) Uno Lamp Shade - any lamp shade where the shade "FITTER" is large enough to slip over or screw over the socket.

Now there are hexagon bells and squares with inverted cut corners. There are V notch bell drums and most any other combinations of features that you may imagine...

It may be obvious that this could go on limited only by our imagination and the lamp shade makers skill. Then there are custom shades in great variety and complexity.

Some say the shade makes the lamp and there is some truth in that. Just do not begin with an ugly lamp and expect your shade to redeem it !

Good luck on selecting your next lamp shade.

- Jim Hoyle


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