Interior Lighting

Last month, Linda over at 1893 Victorian Farmhouse did a post on her favorite things. She has a gorgeous home and has spent the last few years restoring it. I love her taste in almost everything, and noticed she has a lovely collection of lamps, most in the Tiffany style.

I love lamps, too! I have to stop myself whenever I see one I want, because we already have too many. I like the way rooms look when small lamps are used.

This table lamp, above, is an imitation mica lamp. I have always used it on my "cat table" in the parlor. This small gateleg table was in my father's home when he was a boy. I keep photos of my cats, past and present, on this table, along with my Bastet (the Egyptian cat goddess) statues.

In the same room we have this floor lamp. It's great to read by, and helps my African violets grow and bloom with extra light at the same time!

And on the piano, we have a sweet accent lamp given to us as a wedding gift. There are three dolphins holding up the globe and it gives off a soft, amber light.

In another corner of the parlor I have an Eastlake table topped by this cherub lamp. I found it at an antique fair several years back and I just love it! I like that it has a light in the base as well.

My husband and I also love lithophane night lights and lamps. This one, a fairy gazing at the moon, is on our kitchen wall.

And this lithophane lamp is on one end of our kitchen counter.

This is our new light fixture on the kitchen ceiling. I couldn't stand the fluorescent light that was up there all these years, and I looked high and low until I found this one. I really like the etching on the shade. We like to have all our overhead light on dimmer switches. I usually have them turned down low, if at all.

This is my bedside reading lamp.

In the room we call the "library" (my future plans call for built-in bookcases), I have this chandelier over a center table. We have no dining room, but on occasion, have replaced our center table with a larger table to entertain. I always wanted a chandelier, and it was one of the first things I had put in when I bought the house, replacing the ugly ceiling fan that was there. It's not large or expensive, but I love it!

In the same room is our sideboard, where I keep the china, glassware and table linens. This beautiful Art Nouveau-style lamp sits on the sideboard.

The floor lamp below is rarely used. It stands in the corner near my ficus tree and Boston fern.

In the bathroom, we use this lithophane night light.

And on the wash stand I have this figural lamp. It reminds me of the newel post lamps on grand Victorian stairways. Alas, I have no exposed stairway, so this will have to do.

Well, that concludes the tour of the many lamps of Eastlake Victorian. It's hard to take good photos of lamps when they're turned on (especially at night when I had no sunlight to help out)!