Crackle Cranberry Glass Victorian Lamp Casts a Rosy Glow for Cindy's "My Romantic Home's" SHOW AND TELL FRIDAY!

Have you ever yearned to have lived in another era?

I am drawn to the Victorian age. The fashions, interior decorating, and aura of that time have great appeal. 

Much of the interior decorating of our house has a Victorian touch but I wanted to have an old-fashioned hanging lamp in the living room. The overhead light in there when we moved to this house was really ugly.

Looking at an antiques catalogue, I clipped the kind of lamp I would  love. It was cranberry, to match the pink fireplace and the rest of the pink decor, and it had sparkling prisms.  The price tag told me the lamp would have to remain in a magazine clipping. E-x-p-e-n-s-i-v-e.

Then, one day last fall, intuition told me to go to a particular estate sale advertised in the local newspaper.  I walked through the door of the deceased owner's home, looked up , and almost keeled over myself.  There hung the lamp I wanted, almost identical to the one in the magazine clipping.

The cranberry section was crackle style. With its dangling prisms and low overhead lighting, the lamp merited drop dead gorgeous status.

The cost, after a bit of haggling, turned out to be a mere fraction of the price asked for the lamp in the catalogue. 

The crackle cranberry glass lamp now casts a rosy spell on our rather Victorian living room. 

Furniture, lamps, rug, and so on were all either thrifted or purchased at yard or estate sales.  The old-fashioned lamp remains the best find of all. 

DO YOU LIKE VICTORIAN DECOR OR DO YOU PREFER MORE MODERN?