Antler Lamps: The Perfect Rustic Lamp

Use antler lamps to create true rustic charm in your home decorating. So much more than a lighting fixture, antler lamps bring character to your environment. If you have a rustic cabin or southwestern home, the rustic character of antlers with their unusual shapes and variety of natural color will give your space the authentic rustic design you love. Ranch style home owners as well as those designing contemporary houses have chosen antler lamps for decades as the ideal rustic lighting to enhance their western home decor.

Because of the smooth design of antler lamps and chandeliers there is a natural beauty in the antlers themselves that perfectly enhances any type of rustic style furniture. There is something dynamic about antler lamps that pulls every element together and gives off a sophisticated country look in the area. Antler lamps have a quality about them that easily creates rustic beauty in any environment.  Antler lamps also compliment many other rustic elements in home decorating.

In the Northern states or “north woods” antlers may be put on snow shoes and complimented with rawhide lamp shades to fashion fabulous wall sconces. The light wood and rawhide lacing on the snow shoe, combined with the leather binding and luminous glow of the rawhide shade, make it a wonderful harmony.  No matter if you decide to compliment your antler lamp with southwestern light rawhide shades or country style dark rawhide lampshades, the option is yours and the result will be amazing. 

Small antler chandeliers are fashioned from whitetail deer antlers while larger chandeliers sometimes have many tiers of huge elk antlers. Weather your area is large or small an antler chandelier will enhance western decor.  In Jackson Hole, WY the town square is adorned with arches created from Elk antlers. It is definitely one of a kind and you can achieve the same look with antler lamps.

Small lamps can be fashioned from whitetail deer antlers while larger chandeliers may have tiers of elk antlers adorned with rawhide lampshades. One of the most popular lamps is made with moose antlers, recognizable with their beautiful dark palms and dark rawhide lamp shades.  Each antler is somewhat varied than any other, so each antler lamp is especially unique and is great 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.

Throughout the year, organizations like the Boy Scouts will find the prized sheds. If you ever discover antler sheds outdoors, it is a thrilling event. Antler lamps bring that same spirit in your home and can alter your home’s atmosphere in a unique way.  Antlers are acquired in different qualities that are categorized like rare coins.  The highest quality is awarded an “A” grade. The grading scale, indirectly, has to do with the amount of time the sheds lie outdoors before they are found. The longer they are left exposed, the more they break down. Newer antler sheds are dark brown in color.

Sheds that are not discovered soon will begin to fade in the sun until they become 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 various forms of making the antler lamps themselves. Some lamp makers simply glue the antlers together. Others may lash them together with rawhide string for a western look. And some of the most attractive antler lamps may use a combination of glue, screws and lacing, with the holes sealed for a natural look. High end lamps will almost always include rawhide lamp shades.