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Vintage Barn Lights Add Historic Charm to Your Home

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With a vintage barn light, you can add charm and character to your home without a weekend’s worth of redecorating or a budget-busting renovation project. These vintage RLM Warehouse Lights from Crouse-Hinds & Appleton will revive a historical section of any home or office. The vintage barn light pictured above is a 12″ Green Porcelain Warehouse Pendant. It comes with an 8″ black cord, an authentic green porcelain enamel finish, a 75W socket and an on/off push knob.
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Featured Gooseneck Barn Lamp: The Artesia Warehouse Shade

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One of our the most popular vintage inspired light fixtures at Barn Light Electric is the American made Artesia Warehouse Shade. Customers rave about the Artesia’s blend of rustic and contemporary styling, which makes it versatile enough to blend with virtually any design, from log cabins to post modern homes. Read More »

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Vintage RLM Warehouse Lights from Crouse-Hinds™ & Appleton™

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vintage-industrial-barn-light.jpgBarn Light Electric has been able to salvage classic RLM warehouse lights and offer them to you under our Vintage Barn Lighting and Crouse-Hinds portions of the website.

Focusing our attention today on Crouse-Hinds and Appleton, these time-honored vintage barn lights have been cleaned and preserved as eclectic trophies of the past. Each displays exceptional craftsmanship that was first released over 50 years ago. Originally, these porcelain pendants were used around factories, auto shops and gas stations. Today, warehouse shades are perfect for accenting above tables, bars, counter tops, or even in a workshop. Just as relevant as they were so long ago, these vintage warehouse shades with stand the test of time, becoming the perfect addition to any nostalgic project.
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A Guide to Porcelain Enamel Barn Lighting

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Barn Light Electric is the exclusive American manufacturer of the following porcelain enamel lighting styles: Goodrich® Gooseneck Lights, Benjamin® Stem Mount Lighting, and Ivanhoe® Pendants. Based on a classic style from the early 1900’s, the porcelain enamel barn light has returned to prominence in modern design. Many Americans will recognize these barn lights from the early to mid 1900’s, when vintage barn lights were commonly used around gas stations, agricultural areas, and industrial warehouses.

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Vintage Barn Lighting From Barn Light Electric

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Barn Light Electric offers American-made vintage barn lights in a variety of classic shapes and sizes to bring functional style to your residential or commercial space.

During the 1920’s and 30’s, many of these Porcelain Enamel Lights, were commonplace in work related areas. Originally small in size, new RLM warehouse shades were designed to be much larger. These wide shade designs were able to produce a large amount of directed light over manufacturing areas and production tables. Companies such as Benjamin®, Crouse-Hinds, Appleton and The Miller Company created differing variations of shade styles. Thanks to their durable construction and large numbers initially created, Barn Light Electric has been able to salvage and restore many styles of these vintage barn lights.
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