Interior Accent Lights

[Frank&Mike]

The placemats are white plastic with a stiff board sewn into them where they don't bend or flex. Found them at Z Gallerie.

[safari62]

Originally Posted by Frank&Mike

Are there others out there that have a fascination with lamps and lighting? Been searching high and low for a set of lamps to place in the front wrap around windows. Found these vintage lamps in an antique store in Bisbee, AZ over the New Years holiday.

Now I'm anxious to start working on a solution to run the cords behind the sofa. Has anyone ever drilled some holes in that front section (behind the sofa) to conceil an extension cord? Or any other ideas out there to accomodate the need for an extension cord and also conceil the extension cord?

There are plastic and probably stainless grommets that you can fit into a drilled hole to run the electrical cord. Just make sure it is large enough for the plug. Other than this you could notch an edge an apply a molding to it along the wall to make it look like a stock part of the trailer.

Go to your local old fashioned hardware store and look for the little slide out boxes in the hardware section.

I like lights also and do like our vintage wall lights...but they are not much help for reading. I found one of these Lightolier lights awhile back and it makes a great reading and area light. Vintage too.

Gary

[Frank&Mike]

Originally Posted by safari62

There are plastic and probably stainless grommets that you can fit into a drilled hole to run the electrical cord. Just make sure it is large enough for the plug. Other than this you could notch an edge an apply a molding to it along the wall to make it look like a stock part of the trailer.

Thanks very much for your suggestions Gary. That is the information I was needing. I also Googled Lightolier. They have a some great looking products on their website. Your lamp looks great!

[Frank&Mike]

I had never taken a photo of our vintage lamps as they appear from the outside of the Airstream. Attached are a couple photos from when we camped in early July.

[valmog]

The look WONDERFUL!!! isn't it amazing how lighting makes such a difference in the overall feel...so much warmer! Thanks for sharing!

[Hoonanea]

A song comes to mind . . .
"How much is that doggie in the window?"

[Frank&Mike]

Originally Posted by valmog

The look WONDERFUL!!! isn't it amazing how lighting makes such a difference in the overall feel...so much warmer! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for the kind words. Lighting and lamps just seem to give it that warm homey feeling.

[Frank&Mike]

In preparation for taking delivery of our new Airstream tomorrow, I decided it was time to restore the vintage lamps (shown in post #24). The interior of our Airstream we pick up tomorrow is MOCHABLUE so I decided to alter the color (from tan to vintage blue) of the base of the lamps ... to pick up the blue tone in the interior fabrics in order to add a little color to the interior ... and I repainted the chrome stems . I also replaced the electrical cord with new electrical cord.

1st photo is the "before"
Photos 2, 3 and 4 are the "after"

[Frank&Mike]

Attached are a few photos of the refurbished vintage lamps in the new Airstream. I tried 3 different locations:
1. Bedroom nightstand
2. Above the fridge
3. On the bathroom vanity

I think my favorite locations for the lamps are the bedroom nightstand for one of the lamps and the bathroom vanity for the other lamp.

[ROBERTSUNRUS]

Hi, I like your little lamps; I made two bottle lamps and like many other things in my trailer they ended up in my new house because we had nothing else at the time. This reminded me that there are still more things that need to be returned to my trailer.

[indy]

Love the Vintage lights, we will get our lava lamp out for the road.

We /I added led strip lighting inside of the cabinets and the closets, and inside the medicine cabinet.
Wow what a deference.

[Frank&Mike]

Originally Posted by indy

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Love the Vintage lights, we will get our lava lamp out for the road.

We /I added led strip lighting inside of the cabinets and the closets, and inside the medicine cabinet.
Wow what a deference.

Thanks Indy. Strip lighting sounds like a great idea. How difficult to do?

[indy]

LED strip lights in the cabs on a scale 1 to 10 of difficulty 7 had to do some fine wire soildering an wire crimp terminals. Well worth the effort!
16ft. Of lights in all the dark spaces, PRICLESS