Sconce Styles

Reinvent and revamp your home simply by changing your traditional lighting systems into beautiful and elegant alabaster wall sconces! Alabaster wall sconces are not only available in a variety of styles, but come in millions of different sizes and materials as well. Alabaster is basically a kind of fine-grained stone that possesses a smooth whitish [...]

A glass sconce is the perfect way to enhance the look of your home without doing any heavy-duty refurbishing or renovation. Not only do glass sconces make an excellent source of lighting, but the sconces themselves are so pretty that they add to the overall look of your home interiors. Glass Sconce Types Here’s a [...]

An alloy of copper and zinc, brass has been known to man longer than history was written and long before the metal zinc was discovered. Not to be confused with bronze which is an alloy of copper and tin, brass was made in the old days by melting copper together with zinc ore, called calamine. [...]

Sconces are very versatile lighting options and can be used in most homes to create a modern look as well as to create a warm and inviting ambience. While glass and stainless steel sconces are very popular with those who wish to create a contemporary lighting look in their homes, bronze sconces are the ideal [...]

Before glass and china making was widespread, the material of choice for tableware was pewter. Throughout the middle ages, pewter was a metal alloy of tin, copper and lead. After a period of decline towards the end of the 19th century, the art of pewter making was revived in the 20th century for the production [...]

Crystals are solids with atomic, molecular or ionic constituents packed in an orderly, repeating pattern extending in all the three spatial dimensions. However, when is comes to crystal glassware or crystal wall sconces, lead crystals are used. In these cases, lead oxide is added to molten glass to produce a high refraction index on the [...]

Mica wall sconces come in many shapes and designs, with the mica substance either used to with other materials, or as the core substance of the sconces. While many types of materials can be used to design and produce wall sconces, with a variety of effects, the mica material is semi transparent, and thus is [...]

Creativity has always been expressed through carvings from wood, bone, stone and even antlers and horns. Indeed, many works of art have been produced from wood carvings, wooden sconces included. This may be the fact that wood is one of the most basic materials for most of man’s creations, from tables and chairs to cutlery [...]

Of all the various types of wall sconces available nowadays, a wrought iron sconce is perhaps one of the most elegant and stylish lighting option available to homeowners. Wrought iron has an unmatched beauty that is hard to find in any other kind of metal or material. Over the centuries, wrought iron has been used [...]