Tuesday, August 16, 2011

For A Southwest Style Bedroom Use Rawhide Lamp Shades


Rawhide lamp shades are what can turn your bedroom into a designed showplace of southwest style. By accessorizing your bedroom with rawhide shades you are infusing the key elements of the decorating process. It is the natural character of rawhide that captures the essence of southwestern design and adds the rustic beauty to your room. With just a few changes to your lamps and lampshades you too will find the warm inviting feel of a southwestern bedroom.


Table lamps too can be placed all over the house and enhance it with a cosy look as night starts to fall, place them on hallway tables, on a desk, on bedside table for the kids room, bookshelves and dressing tables and save on overhead lighting. The contemporary Hamburg Table Lamp has an attractive traditional shape and comes in an antique brass or chrome finish complete with shade, the range also offers matching pendants and wall lights in the same style. The Tevere Table Lamp is a traditional fixture with a black gold chain that can be removed giving you the option to fit it flush to the ceiling, and comes complete with glass shades.It is best to match your rawhide lamp shades in your bedroom by color. For southwest style bedroom lighting, a light bleached rawhide shade is the color of choice. Draw your bedroom together with rawhide floor lamp shades that match the shades on your bedside lamps and any table lampshades that you might have in the room. Different heights and diameters of rawhide shades are also very attractive and add an interesting sense of drama to the room.If you have never heard of accent lighting then get online and do some research. Used as an addition to stronger practical light fixtures, accent lighting is used to emphasise a particular area or object in a room and can really add to its style by drawing attention to these aspects. Use them to highlight items on the wall, or pieces of furniture, they can often add surprising amounts of dimension and depth to a space. Decorative sconces or wall lights can add character to an entrance hall or porch by creating a warm, cosy glow, a great welcome home for your family, and any visitors, on a cold winters evening.Fluorescent lighting can be used in all kinds of places, use strip light fittings for under your kitchen cabinets enabling you to see everything clearly when preparing meals, ceiling pendant lights in various lengths to brightly light a room, and suspended ceiling lights for direct light. The lifespan of fluorescent lighting is approx. 5,000 hours and light bulbs are not expensive to replace.Order your home or commercial lighting online and you'll find a great choice of products, fast delivery service, and outstanding value for money.The bright light supplied by fluorescent lighting means they are suitable for work areas - the office, kitchen and your workbench will all benefit from being well-lit and you don't have to have them fitted in the main ceiling light either. Use wall or desk lamps to throw extra light on the particular area you are working in, then just switch it off when you want a softer light.

Rawhide lamp shades will work miracles on your rustic bedroom makeover. We have been discussing southwest style, but rawhide shades are also available in dark western hide for ranch or lodge d�cor and in unique colors for country d�cor. Each type of rawhide has its own special lighting characteristics. So weather you want to lighten your bedroom, darken it, or add rustic color, you will find inspiration in hand crafted rawhide lamp shades.




Author: Craig Chambers


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