I think it’s fabulous, I love unique decor like this. Thanks for sharing.

From what I can see of your house, it looks right up my alley. How old?

I love it…great job! i once turned an antique cheese basket into a ceiling light fixture when i lived in an old home.

This is fantastic! I love it.

my tip is get medium base candle tip bulbs it will look better! great job.

@Jilly

It is not that old, or at least in terms of New England standards with the house being built in 1940. I actually have another house that is older; a four square built in 1930, but this is our primary residence.

What we are having trouble deciding is if this is a house we fix up and sell, or our forever home. From room arrangements to being on a nice bend in the river, it has about everything we want, except a downstairs full bathroom. As we age, that might become a problem. In another thread there was discussion of adding a tower/turret so we could put in an elevator to all three floors which is still an idea I am kicking around.

Interesting, Travis! Both your houses sound amazing; I love the NE area.

@RL Relocation LLC

I agree and while it is easy enough to swap out the bases, one issue i have as i get older is, I find I need more light.

A great thing about LED lights is, you can get 100 watt eqivilent lumens with only 12 watts of consumtion by the sppluance. That gives ma a lot of light without overloading the socket base past its 60 watt rating.

Can you get candlebra light bulbs in 100 wattt equivilent now?

I would imagine you can, that fact that you are using edison bulbs when you need good lighting is blowing my mind lol.........(just joking around). I would do 4 60 watt bulbs on a dimmer.

You can also get medium based candle bulbs.

@RL Relocation LLC (regarding former post above)

I think I was like 10 when I went into my uncle's old sawmill, one I actually own myself now, and it had these weird light bulbs and I asked my father about it, and he said they were old Edison bulbs. From that day on, I kind of liked them, and then when they came out with them in LED, I started incorporating them into my lights.

I am still on my relight the house mission though. This house was dreary, every room had a single 60 watt light equivalent bulb in it making it very dark. They had to go or we would be bumping into things at our ages. Good gosh, I never thought I would get this old that fast!

We found a nice triple light at the antique store on sale for 50 bucks, so we got that for the library, but the dining room light was something my girlfriend wanted for her birthday. It was a Hobby Lobby find, NOT on sale, and took two attempts to get it to work, but it is growing on me. More Edison bulbs, but really makes a dining room we hated to be in, awash with light now and inviting.

I am on a different device, but I will try and get some pictures of the lights, Spoiler alert however; more Edison Bulbs! :-)

Oh, just realized something....

In the original photo on this thread, the first one, the top on that side table was made from Black Cherry grown on our farm and sawn on that old 1900 Roberts rotary sawmill.

Yep, I like old, as in old houses, doing stuff old school ways, and wit old equipment like sawmills. Its just at age 49, I hate being old!

Here are some pictures of the library light and ding room light.

Dining room light

(Note: the table top is black cherry saw from wood from the farm and on our old family sawmill as well)

Forget the light :) We need to talk about that fabluous staircase!!!!!!

The table is amazing! the light... well.......lol, the library light is just beautiful.

Yeah, I understand on the light. It is not practical either as it cast all its light above and has some shadow on the table. I can fix that, but not well. But my girlfriend likes it, and it's better than the bare, single bulb that was there.

There is an antique shop within walking distance of my house though, with a ton of antique lights. A great owner too, but having spent his whole life in antiques, knows what he has and is not going to part with anything without a price to compensate himself.

Just as an example, he had an old flintlock rifle that would look great on the mantel for $50, and I said to my girlfriend, "I am going home with that", but the barrel hid part of the price tag and he actually wanted $250 for it. It did not go home with me. $250 for a non-working rifle? Maybe, but I can pay $800 for a Lever Action and look just as good antiques wise, and be able to use it if some undesirable comes through the front door. I always keep my guns loaded as I made that mistake once before. NEVER again; always loaded.

I did go home with a door with lots of stain glass though. Seeing it, I thought it would look good in our bathroom as a door for our linen closet. It needs to be trimmed to fit, some rot taken care of, and a pane of stained glass replaced, but should work well in our main bathroom. I paid $50 for it, which might have been too much, but I'll make it look good, but then again, I said that about the light @RL Relocation LLC ! (Teasing myself).

@pennfire

Mmmmm... not sure what to say about it. I did not build it, but it is typical of a house in the northeast. The windows within a stairwell were typically stain glass and the best possible to show skill from both inside and outside.

Like the rest of the house, it has a single, bare bulb illuminating the stairs area which needs to go. I got some ideas for that, but right now my library is looking like crap. I found a hidden room underneath those stairs and so I need to trim out the hidden door with a bookcase, fabricate a secret latch and install more baseboard trim to match, so the light must be put a bit down on the priority list unfortunately. If I was not working 80 hours a week at my job, I might actually get something done at my house, but that is just part of the job; people die without electricity and providing it is a 24/7/365 is required. (2003 Blackout: 100 people died in 12 hours)

I was thinking about a light similar to the first one in the very first picture on this thread, but bigger, and maybe having four lights. Stairs are safety hazards in any house and now at age 49, my eyes are bad, my knees are shot, and I scoff at great advice that @RL Relocation LLC gives, at least in regarding to the Edison light bulbs. (Teasing myself again), But I do recognize I need more light in this house and especially over the stairs.

The sad part is, I thought it would take a lot longer for me to feel this darn old!

@pennfire

Apologies for failing to note the previous picture did not have the stained glass windows in it. Here is a better picture of the staircase though it needs more painting as well as trim.

Swooning!

@pennfire

I was finally able to get to Hobby Lobby and get the lantern that they had there, work my magic with a few ceiling fan sockets, and cobble up a new light for the main stair case landing.

The picture is terrible because its dark with the light off, and too bright with it on, but maybe with some squinting you can see how it looks in above the stairs.

For those that like to make their own lights (an addiction for sure) this was a $100 lantern at Honby Lobby with sockets and hardware purchased at home depot for a cost of around $50, so $150 total not counting the hour it took to wire up. It has (4) 100 watt equivilent bulbs making the stairs brighter and safer.

In driving to work i noticed an old door for sale by a neighbor that had a lot of stain glass. I thought it would match the windows in our house well by being a missing linen closet door. It took a lot of time and money to fix, but along the way I learned how to cut stained glass.

With that in mind, another Hobby Lobby find, along with glass panes replaced with stained glass to match my bathroom color scheme gave me a new bathroom light that ties stained glass throughout the house together.

I am not done with this bathroom yet, but i will include some pictures of the light I made last night, and the stained glass linen closet door I rebuilt.

New bathroom light

This is such a great idea! You're very creative and I appreciate your DIY skillzzz!

Very cool light ideas, Travis.

Love the stained glass in your house, gorgeous!

I wish i had put some stained glass in the big light above the stairs before i put it up, but i am not climbing up there again now.

Thanks for the kind words. This house is in very rough shape but liitle by little we are making it better.

LoveLove your space!

Beautiful! I just had my electrician rewire lights bought in Mexico city In1952 and then put the gas looking bulbs in. But your idea is great! I'm going to make lights out of everything. 

 And oh you should come to ohio they throw so many doors with the stain glass away.

  Could you suggest a way to mount these lights I just bought to the wall?