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Jackson House Lighting offers lighting repair, restoration and rewiring as well as chandelier cleaning and maintenance.
We also offer custom metal refinishing to the public and to the trade. Of particular interest is our metal polishing service for brass, bronze and aluminum light fixtures, architectural items & building facades.
We welcome enquiries from the public, antique dealers, architects and tradesfolk restoring old buildings and fixtures. Please direct all enquiries through our website contact page.
We are always interesting in buying vintage lighting and metal items in the unrefinished state.
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Lighting Restoration:
Most antique and vintage lighting can be restored and rewired to live a second useful and beautiful life. Here are some examples.
The first picture below shows how old lighting sometimes arrives - an old carton full of parts and an assortment of crystals in a shopping bag. Luckily this one still had all its parts. Now restored, this pretty, six arm, Edwardian era chandelier really sparkles.
The Arts and Crafts fixture below was sold to us by a picker who believed it to be wood. Once restored, we found it to be solid brass, marked Tungstolier Made in USA with Weber patented shade holders dated 1904.
A lucky client of ours bought an old Victorian house with 12 coordinating sets of brass sconces, all of them painted with white house paint. After removal of the paint and some restoration, she nows has 12 gorgeous functional Victorian sconces, just as they were originally. Below is a before and after picture.
We also restore chandeliers - cleaning (see before and after of the hollow cut glass chandelier arm, and of various crystals, in the photos below), rewiring, replacement of missing bobeches and crystals.
Most old lamps can be restored if complete with all their original parts. This pair of English oak lamps dates from the Arts and Crafts era. Notice the very old plug, sockets and electrical cord in the second photo which shows the unrestored condition. We have rewired and refurbished the lamps, and given them elegant newer lampshades, so that they can enjoy a second life today as an elegant pair of candle lamps.
Please contact us if you have any questions.
The Rogue's Gallery of Wiring:
We have compiled a few examples of unfit wiring and electrical components from repairs that come into our shop. If you recognize any of these items in your lamps at home, please do not plug them in!
From left to right in the photo gallery, see the following:
Wooden unsupported sockets and thin gauge wiring in this otherwise gorgeous European chandelier
A lighting post in a chandelier mended with an old yellow wooden pencil
Old Dutch ceramic wire nuts which do not meet current electrical code.
Really ancient wiring and plug
Metal polishing and antique metal restoration:
We try to restore each piece sympathetically according to the following principles:
Here are some materials which can benefit from buffing and polishing:
See the difference metal polishing and fixture restoration can make in this pair of heavy brass antique sconces. Click on the photo to enlarge; use your back button to return to this page.
We do not, as a general rule, refinish:
