Vintage lighting, accessories for antiques lovers

Store sells: Vintage and reproduction lighting from the turn of the century through the 1940s. The store also sells gift items, home and garden accessories and vintage furniture. And it offers repair, restoration and in-home consultation services.

Price range: $1.50 for finials (lamp toppers) to $4,500 for an intricately cast ceiling fixture with gold Steuben glass (c. 1905).

Replacing a new cord and socket costs $10; restoring an antique ceiling light runs $150; and consultations range from $50 to $125, depending on how far staff members have to travel. The service is free of charge if customers purchase several lights from Revival Lighting.

Who owns it: In 1999, David Farmer, John Hahn and Janine Vaughn established Revival Lighting in Spokane. The store had so much business from Seattle residents that in 2001, the longtime Spokane residents opened another shop in the historical neighborhood of Rainier Valley's Columbia City.

What's unique: About 350 antique and restoration ceiling lights provide a golden glow above the store's maroon carpet. It also sells scores of wall sconces, table lamps and floor lamps.

Revival Lighting offers such surprises as birdhouses, door knockers, wind chimes and even bell-shaped rain chains ($99 each) to put on the end of gutters.

Vintage armoires sit next to antique tables and chairs. A black-lacquer vintage rocking chair costs $250, a rusted garden topiary is $55 and a stained-glass Tiffany-style frog accent light costs $99.

Customer favorites include handglazed ceramic switch plates ($15 each) and a clawfoot-style bath-tub soap dish ($25).

What's functional: The store carries about 150 styles of reproduction glass shades (from $8 to $125 apiece), which can be purchased separately from the holders.

A reproduction cord-hung pendant light with Halophane (clear-ribbed) glass is $92; the same fixture with a gray-blue art deco glass shade runs $105, and the same holder with vibrant red bell glass costs $150.

"People can dress up their ugly old chandeliers by putting in new glass," suggested Vaughn.

On the whole, antique pieces will cost more than reproductions. Vintage two-bulb ceiling lights run between $195 and $225, while an equivalent reproduction costs $165.

How the store works: Sometimes customers like to buy exactly what they see on the showroom floor. But they can customize their lights.

"You can mix and match the holder and glass on almost everything in here," said Vaughn.

The light restoration and repair department gives antique or contemporary pieces a quick fix or a complete face-lift.

One thing that customers should know: Gold is used to make red glass, and since gold is currently very expensive, so are light fixtures with red-glass coverings, said Vaughn, adding that "some companies have discontinued making red until the prices go down."

Judy Chia Hui Hsu, Seattle Times staff reporter

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