Looking for Arts&Crafts lighting fixtures...

[BooUrns!]

Looking for Arts&Crafts lighting fixtures without the BS prices. I can't believe how much some outfits try to charge for these things. They look good but they aren't hard to make.

I'm getting really frustrated with the building industry right now. Prices don't reflect demand.

 

[kartracer23]

My wife and I are restoring a Prairie Style Foursquare, so I feel your pain. We've been able to find some fixtures at HD, Lowe's, Menards, etc., but they're rare. You can't really go out looking for a certain style - just have to keep an eye out for what you need.
We have bought one light (school house pendant) from Rejuvenation. Not cheap but nice quality and they would make it exactly how we wanted (finish, length, shade, etc.). Our best buy was a set of four down pendants for the cross beams in the living room - $14 each from Menards (photo below). Rejuvenation has a very similar pendant, but they're over $100 ea. before you add the shades.

 

[PAToyota]

A couple places I know of:

http://brasslight.com/browse.lasso?B=R
http://www.jtcooperstudio.com/

 

[bomber]

what we've done is search through "American Bungalow" and "Style 1900," found some styles we liked, and went hunting at the local big boxes -- you can get really close (visually) to what some of the high-dollar places are selling for much less, especially if you, like the other posters have suggested, you stay a little flexible . . . . .

I'd love to see more on Arts & Crafts garages -- we visited the Greene and Greene Gamble house in California a couple of years ago -- the garage was aces, but had been converted into a bookstore (I was sorta kinda hoping to see a Deusey getting an oil change in there)

 

[PAToyota]

I agree on American Bungalow - just started a subscription to it earlier this year after picking up the magazines at the bookstore for awhile. It is an excellent resource for that era.

http://www.ambungalow.com/AmBungalow/home.htm

They have resource links on the website, but unfortunately they are just alphabetically listed without much information about what they supply - just name, phone number, and website for the most part. So if the name doesn't make clear what they deal in...

 

[bluesman2a]

have you looked at http://www.restorationhardware.com

more than a little pricey, but they have some nice stuff.

 

[burger]

Here are a few links to places that my wife and I have used with our 1929 bungalow.


http://www.crafthome.com/products.htm

http://www.historicproperties.com/resources.htm

http://www.vandykes.com