Comments on: 41 midcentury lighting ideas – post lanterns, lamp posts, wall lanterns and landscaping lights

By: Heidi Swank

Heidi Swank — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:06:58 +0000

We bought a light that looks a lot like the P 5970 from Rejuvenation called Otis. We love it. It really lights up a lot of our yard and yet makes the front of the house seem homey and inviting.

By: Vacc139

Vacc139 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:28:53 +0000

Progress Lighting http://progresslighting.com/ still has some landscape ligthing fixtures that resemble the 1961 ones.

By: sumac sue

sumac sue — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:44:08 +0000

One last thing — my parents once had a lamp-post featuring a projection made to look like a tree limb, with a squirrel perched on it. Like Maureen’s mother, they kept it painted white. We kids would joke about the albino squirrel on the lamp-post.

By: sumac sue

sumac sue — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:40:00 +0000

Our colonial-style lamp-post is somewhat like #5490. But, the top of the lamp, or lid, has four glass inserts, rather than being solid black metal. We couldn’t get the lamp to come on by flipping the most likely switch, and we figured something was wrong with the wiring. Then, we discovered it was wired to a different switch, which also controls one outlet in the living room. Weird. The previous owner, a retired art teacher, had painted the pole bright red, as well as the mailbox by the front door. Also weird. We repainted them black. I use twine to allow morning glories and clematis to grow from the ground up to the lamp. (I also use twine to allow morning glories to grow up to the soffits on the west side of the house, creating some shade over the windows. It’s fun, then, to look out the windows and watch the bees on the flowers.)

By: Tut

Tut — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:42:05 +0000

5970 is the one that caught my eye. But my favorite outdoor fixture is still the green 3-tier ground lights, especially when they’re near some big evergreen bushes or along a curved driveway. Timeless.

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:15:42 +0000

Out door lighting seems to mystify people. I have some in my studio, not a whole lot. Here is a great source http://www.loveitlighting.com , if you do not already know about them. Good quality, I have had customers use them and been happy.

By: Maureen

Maureen — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:16:55 +0000

Here’s a post about my parents’ house that has a lamp-post that my dad would have made in the mid-1960s:
http://mjsputtering.blogspot.com/2008/07/mish-mash.html

My mother still has this lamp-post which sits near the sidewalk leading to their house. She had it painted white instead of its original black. (I prefer it in black). It may inspire others to make their own too! He also put an electrical outlet in the bottom of it which was handy in winter for block-heater purposes and the outlet was controllable from the house. (Can you tell he was an electrician?)