| Antler lamps are wonderful for enhancing western | | | | look with antler lamps. Small lamps can be made |
| home decor. So much more than average home | | | | from whitetail deer antlers while large chandeliers |
| lighting, antler lamps add charm to your | | | | may have tiers of elk antlers with rawhide |
| environment. If you have a mountain cabin or | | | | lampshades. One of the most sought after lamps |
| southwestern home, the rustic character of | | | | is made with moose antlers, recognizable with |
| antlers with their unique shapes and variations in | | | | their broad dark palms and beautiful dark rawhide |
| natural color will give your area the unique old | | | | lamp shades. |
| west style you desire. | | | | Throughout the year, groups and associations like |
| Ranch owners as well as those designing modern | | | | the Boy Scouts will search for the prized sheds. If |
| log homes have used antler lamps for years as | | | | you ever find antler sheds in the wild, it is a |
| the beautiful rustic lighting to complete their ranch | | | | thrilling event. Antler lamps bring that same spirit in |
| style home design. Because of the natural shape | | | | your home and can change your home's |
| of antler lamps and chandeliers there is a unique | | | | atmosphere in a most exciting way. |
| beauty in the antlers themselves that wonderfully | | | | Antlers are available in different qualities that are |
| goes along with any variety of ranch style | | | | graded like rare coins. The best quality is awarded |
| furniture. There is something dynamic about antler | | | | an "A" grade. The grading criteria, indirectly, has to |
| lamps that combines all the elements and gives | | | | do with the amount of time the sheds lie on the |
| off a sophisticated country feel within the room. | | | | ground before found. The longer they are left on |
| Antler lamps have a unique quality about them | | | | the ground, the more they lose their quality. |
| that easily enhances rustic beauty in any | | | | Newer antler sheds will be a darker brown color. |
| environment. | | | | Sheds that are not discovered quickly will begin to |
| Antler lamps also go along with many other rustic | | | | fade in the sun until they are a chalky white. |
| elements in home interior design. In the Northern | | | | Another reason they loose their quality is because |
| states or "north woods" antlers may be put on | | | | of chew marks from small rodents and stains |
| snow shoes and complimented with rawhide lamp | | | | from wet ground or moss. |
| shades to fashion beautiful wall sconces. The light | | | | There are also varying forms of making the |
| colored wood and rawhide lacing of the snow | | | | antler lamps themselves. Some lamp makers |
| shoe, along with the leather binding and pleasant | | | | simply glue the antlers together. Others may lash |
| glow of the rawhide shade, make it a wonderful | | | | them together with rawhide thong for a western |
| harmony. Weather you prefer to adorn your | | | | look. And some of the most appealing antler |
| antler lamp with rustic light rawhide shades or | | | | lamps may use a combination of glue, screws and |
| western style dark rawhide lampshades, the | | | | lacing, with the holes sealed for a natural look. |
| choice is yours and the result will be beautiful. | | | | Better quality lamps will almost always use |
| Smaller antler chandeliers are sometimes made | | | | rawhide lamp shades. |
| from whitetail deer antlers while large chandeliers | | | | Each antler is slightly varied than any other, so |
| may have many tiers of huge elk antlers. | | | | each antler lamp is a unique treasure and works |
| Weather your area is large or small an antler | | | | wonderfully for rustic lighting. Try antler lamps |
| chandelier will enhance western decor. | | | | with rawhide lamp shades in your home to create |
| In Jackson Hole, WY the downtown is embellished | | | | true rustic charm and to give it that warm, |
| with arches made from Elk antlers. It is certainly | | | | inviting look and feel that everybody loves. |
| one of a kind and you can create the same rustic | | | | |