The Antler Chandelier
We all enjoy enhancing our homes. Making it transfer from a house into a home is a pleasure. Not only should carpet colors, furniture shades and fabrics, drapes, and end tables be considered when trying to create the atmosphere you desire. Also a careful eye should be paid to the lighting. Antler chandeliers are one way to add emphasis to a room’s décor. Not only popular in log homes, the antler chandeliers found brick homes and standard construction homes alike. The antlers are simply part of nature. Transformed into a light fixture and enhanced with shades or metal working, the antler reflects a simpler way of life. Large elk antler chandeliers are larger than the deer antler lights. Taken from the sheds, some of the horns can have six or seven tines and be a few feet log. The single tines, that each stretch upwards in an upsweep, are far from dainty. Not designed for a low overhead room, these larger models usually occupy an area with a cathedral ceiling.
The deer antler chandeliers are another choice. Made from either mule deer or the very common white tail deer antlers, they are suitable for a lower over head area. Smaller and tighter in design, these lights can be selected for over a dining room table. Some only have two our three antlers in the composition, so they are not going to look out of place over a table.
The faux antler chandelier appeals to the pocket book and the home. Faux chandeliers are the imitation ones. Not requiring actual animal antlers, this type can be designed with very small antlers or wide stretching ones. When purchasing a replica it is very important to unwrap it and check for any damage. Any broken tines or candelabra sticks that are not straight up and down should be returned.
It should be noted that animals such as the elk and deer shed their antlers each year. The antlers are actually outgrowths of bone. First they are covered in velvet as they grow. The animals are very sensitive on the horns in the beginning because of the blood flow to them. Once the fall comes the animals rub the velvet off the horns, using trees. Used in the mating rituals since time began, they are carried proudly by the animals through the fall and early winter. Once mating season is over and the weather drops to very cold temperatures, the horns begin to slowly detach themselves from the animals head. Some deer can be seen running through the fields with only one antler left. Fairly soon the second one will disappear as well. One pass time that has grown in participants is to hunt for the shed horns. The sheds are what the antler chandeliers are made from.
Antler chandeliers cast a glow about them that gives a feel of yester-year. Are you sitting in the Inn at Yellowstone Park or are you really in your living room? Only you can decide that.
