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By: Craig Chambers
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.
You might be surprised to find how many different types or
styles work with southwest design. For example, you might
find that you already have all the lamps you need and the
addition of rawhide lamp shades makes them work perfectly.
By displaying them differently with rustic shades, many lamps
can be transformed from traditional to rustic style. It’s
not so much the lamp as it is the shade that displays the
rustic texture you want. Get creative with an old lamp by
adding rawhide shades and watch the room come to life.
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.
Lighting is a key element in the bedroom. You will want to
bee able to change the mood of the room. For romantic times
you may want to use subtle lighting, but you will also want
bright lighting for dressing. Most bedrooms are under lighted,
or poorly lighted by using one overhead light. This causes
a lot of glare and doesn’t have the mood creating properties
of individual lamps. By using several different lamps in your
bedroom, you can create focal points in different areas of
the room for different moods, and use higher and lower wattage
bulbs to set the right intensity of light. Natural rawhide
lamp shades create an ambiance that will coordinate the southwest
theme that you want to create.
Weather you use your existing lamps or purchase new rustic
lamps for your bedroom, the key to having the correct look
in the bedroom is to layer the lighting. In other words, create
lighting zones that give you the ability to create areas of
light that are suited to a specific function. One great trick
to enhance your new or newly created rustic lamps is to use
a dimmer switch. Because rawhide lamp shades are a natural
product, different lighting moods can be set by allowing more
or less light to filter through the rawhide. Another nice
idea is to use remote controls, timers and automatic switches
to turn light on or off in certain areas.
Bedroom lighting is important and rawhide lamp shades will
add a quality of life through a beautiful warm atmosphere
that you will enjoy day after day. And along with that also
comes the function that allows lighting to serve you better.
Lighting affects us on many levels and natural rawhide lamp
shades will help you create the harmonious and peaceful bedroom
that you need.
You can use lamps with rawhide shades in many locations around
your bedroom, beside the bed, on a desk, as floor lamps and
indirect lighting. Remember to use separate controls for reading
lamps and to place the lamps so the light is projected from
behind the reader to eliminate glare and shadowing.
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 décor and in unique colors for country décor.
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.
About The Author
Craig Chambers is the director of Mission Del Rey, offering
authentic Indian hand crafts, rawhide lamp shades, rustic
lamps and southwest home furnishing accessories. Learn more
at: http://www.missiondelrey.com.
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