So coming to a lamp and fixture, you’ll know what you’re getting. You get what you pay for. So we put the best quality care in your lamp or fixture. Most of the cases, they’re passed down from generations and generations, two or three generations of taking
Read more →I would say do your homework, know what you’re working on, and just be very careful with how you’re doing it. At a lamp and fixture, we try to do everything as if it was UL listed. Safety comes first. And then we work on the aesthetics.
Read more →That is one of those things I’ve learned from my father. He’s seen a lot and he’s worked with very expensive, Tiffany lamps really expensive fixtures, glass. So there’s certain ways that we do try to protect the integrity of the outside of the lamp when we’re
Read more →That’s a great question. We get that asked often. We try to keep the natural patina of a lamp or fixture or sconce. It’s, it brings the character out of the fixture. And we don’t wanna ruin it. I know some people, they’ll say, can I use
Read more →That’s a great question. I’ll oftentimes believe it or not, I’ll ask my father Paul, who has got a wealth of information knowing Kind of era of what those lamps, what that lamp came from, or where it came from, or type of glass that people bring
Read more → I would say the challenging ones that we get are fixtures that, come in from Europe. Europe is very different than than the United States, for many reasons. But how they do things electrically, your voltage is different. So you’re going from 220 volt up to
Read more →The sources have changed throughout the years, like most people have had dealt with in their own businesses and companies. Way back when my father first started, Chicago was one of the main hubs of electrical parts or just manufacturing alone. There’s two big companies Frederick Cooper,
Read more →It’s hard to determine the the cost of a lamp. Other than knowing of where to look and how to look. We do not appraise by any means, but we can give you an estimate of, what our ranges of, we always tell our customers, it’s what,
Read more →The process of restoration, that’s a big question that we get asked a lot of times. When re when people refer to restoring they’re thinking of, electrically and cosmetically, meaning the color of the fixtures. What we deal with a lot more of is the the internal
Read more →It wasn’t on my plan. Starting off I went to school for exercise science and I wanted to be a personal trainer. So I did that for several years and realized that it really wasn’t for me working a lot of hours for very little payback. I
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