Use Antler Lamps To Create Unique Mountain Interior Design

Antler lamps are wonderful for enhancing western home decor. Much more than average home lighting, antler lamps add charm to your room. If you have a rustic cabin or western style home, the wonderful character of antlers with their unusual shapes and variations in natural color will give your space the designer western look you are hoping to create.

Ranch style home owners as well as those designing modern houses have used antler lamps for many years as the beautiful rustic lighting to enhance their western or southwestern home look. Because of the natural shape of antler lamps and chandeliers there is a unique charm in the antlers themselves that wonderfully goes along with any form of rustic style furniture. There is something dynamic about antler lamps that pulls every element together and creates a sophisticated rustic look within the room. Antler lamps have a magic about them that definitely enhances rustic beauty in any environment.

Antler lamps also enhance many other western elements in home interior design. In the Northwestern states or "north woods" antlers may be put on snow shoes and adorned with rawhide lamp shades to create one-of-a-kind wall sconces. The light wood and rawhide lacing on the snow shoe, in combination with the leather binding and warm glow of the hand stitched shade, make it a beautiful combination. Weather you prefer to enhance the beauty of your antler lamp with rustic light rawhide shades or country style dark rawhide lampshades, the choice is yours and the outcome will be amazing.

Small antler chandeliers are sometimes fashioned from whitetail deer antlers while larger chandeliers may have several tiers of huge elk antlers. Weather your home is large or small an antler chandelier will compliment western home furnishings.

In a small town in Wyoming, the center of town is embellished with arches created from Elk antlers. It is certainly unique and you can capture the same look with antler lamps. Small lamps are made from whitetail deer antlers while larger chandeliers may have tiers of elk antlers adorned with rawhide lampshades. One of the most sought after lamps is created using moose antlers, unmistakable with their beautiful dark palms and beautiful dark rawhide lamp shades.

Throughout the year, groups and associations like the Boy Scouts will find the prized sheds. If you ever discover antler sheds outdoors, it is a thrilling occurrence. Antler lamps enhance that same look in your home and can alter your home's atmosphere in a unique way.

Antlers are found in varying qualities that are categorized like rare coins. The highest quality is given an "A" grade. The grading scale, indirectly, has to do with the how much time the sheds lie outdoors before they are foung. The more time they are left outdoors, the more they deteriorate. Newer antler sheds will be a darker brown color. Sheds that are not found soon will begin to fade in the sun until they are a chalky white. Another factor they loose their quality is because of chew marks from small rodents and stains from wet ground or moss.

There are also different techniques for making the antler lamps themselves. Some lamp makers simply glue the antlers together. Others may fasten them together with rawhide lacing for a rustic Indian look. And some of the most appealing antler lamps may use a combination of being glued, drilled and screwed together, with the holes closed up for a natural look. High end lamps will almost always use rawhide lamp shades.

Each antler is a little varied than any other, so each antler lamp is specially unique 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.