You love the rustic lifestyle and your home is decorated with a hunting lodge theme, stuffed trophy mounts, lots of bear and deer collectibles, fishing creels, and log furniture. Braided rugs are scattered over hardwood floors, and the fireplace is the heart of your home. You live in an outdoorsman’s paradise, but you don’t want to live in the dark ages!
Quality, adequate lighting is important in every home-no matter what the style. And not only is it functional, but it also adds to the look, feel, and value of your home.
Regardless of your choice of decor, there are light fixtures and lighting options to fit every decorating style or taste. If you own a cozy log cabin or a rustic retreat, forget all about those plastic and fake brass fixtures of the past! Track lighting isn’t your taste? Say no more! You can find gorgeous lighting to suit your space-and illuminate the place-in style!
Today’s lighting and light fixtures are available in a wide variety of materials and styles. Fixtures are made from natural materials like wood and bamboo, distressed metals like hammered bronze, wrought iron, pewter, and copper-and even from wagon wheels and deer, moose, or elk antlers-either real or cast (manufactured).
Imagine a moose antler chandelier hanging down from a long chain or wrought iron rod in the middle of your great room. Very impressive! Hammered bronze floor lamps stand on either side of your leather chairs while matching hammered bronze table lamps sit on the side tables flanking the leather sofa. Your lighting choices are the perfect accompaniment to your warm gathering place in front of the fire.
In the dining room, a wagon wheel light fixture hangs centered over the antique pine table and chairs you inherited from your grandmother. You can already visualize the children (and the grandchildren you will have someday) gathered around that table on Thanksgiving day, the light reflecting in their joyful eyes.
Wrought iron or bamboo lighting is perfect for a bathroom. These fixtures can be put around a large mirror or over a sink. By adding a wrought iron pendant light over a bathtub or a whirlpool you can even create a spa-like atmosphere in your rustic styled home.
Faux alabaster sconces flank distinctive artwork on large canvases in your entryway, and there is a coordinating wrought iron and faux alabaster chandelier hanging overhead. What a statement it makes when your guests arrive to visit.
Ever detail is attended to, and every detail adds to the warmth and cozy country feel of your lovely rustic home. It’s the perfect place for family and friends to gather and a relaxing respite from the rest of the world at the end of a long day.
Fortunately, today there are enough styles of light fixtures to match any kind of home decor. It no longer matters if you want a modern or rustic look since there are light fixtures available that will blend in and even enhance the feel you are trying to create. Fixtures also come in all price ranges and are functional, as well as attractive. Decorating is now just as fun as purchasing the light fixtures.
