Mission Del Rey Blog
Rawhide Southwestern Lamp Shades Create That Special Look
Southwestern lamp shades can make a difference in any room and bring your rustic lighting to life. If you have worked hard to outfit your room or new home, you want to be able to create the right mood for specific occasions. Create a really neat ambience in a room by selecting Southwestern lampshades for your lighting needs. By using rustic lampshades, the aura of a room can be transformed, from the stark reality of a typical light bulb, to a natural and more calming atmosphere. When you are get
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Sep 12th 2015
Southwest Indian Pottery Lamps Are Timeless
The hands of a Native American artist formed these southwest Indian pottery lamps from clay found near the arroyos and rivers of their homeland. Rolling out the clay, then coiling it to form the shape of the lamp is the first step of their construction process. Smoothing the clay, both inside and outside with a crude tool such as a piece of broken glass or a stone or stick, letting it dry, then firing it in the kiln will turn this formless substance into an object of beauty and use. A home that
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Aug 27th 2015
Southwest Painted Leather Lamp Shades - A Decorator's Choice
The vistas of the west can be portrayed beautifully on southwest painted leather lamp shades. Distant mesas looking out over a spectacular sunset desert, a cabin tucked into a meadow beneath the mountains, or a quaint pueblo are scenes that will all add to the ambiance of the southwest theme you have chosen for your home. The rugged naturalism of the southwest portrayed on leather lamp shades will make any room more unique and individual. You will almost be able to hear the wind and smell the sa
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Aug 27th 2015
Use Custom Rawhide Lamp Shades For Rustic Interior Design
Using custom rawhide lamp shades as part of your home decorating is the easiest and most inexpensive way to give your home true rustic or western style. The thing I love most about decorating with hand made lamp shades is the natural glow and welcoming warmth they create no matter where they are used. These natural rawhide shades are made of goat skin and are wonderful because of their versatility and ability to combine with all southwestern style home accessories and any color palette.Wonderful
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Aug 15th 2015
Use Rawhide Lamp Shades to Create a Southwest Room.
By using rawhide lamp shades, young artists and designers are discovering what has traditionally been the icon of rustic lighting, lamps and decor. Moving out of the lodges and into the living rooms of America, rustic lamps with rawhide lampshades are making a rustic statement in every part of the county. It seems to be a way to bring a part of the past into the present. Many home decorators are creating southwest rooms or western theme rooms in dens family rooms, even bathrooms, bedro
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Aug 13th 2015