Artisan Crafted Iron Furnishings and Decor Blog
Home Furnishings for Life
by Joanna
Century Hardware is a U.S. based company that specializes in superior quality decorative hardware for the bath and kitchen industry. Century Hardware offers a wide range of design options and finish choices to its clients.
The company takes great pride in its excellent customer service and innovative designs and claims to have the widest range of high quality hardware products in the American marketplace.
You can opt for a Century Hardware product to match virtually any design possible.
by Joanna
Wrought iron products are a great way to create different interior styles. You can use wrought iron products to create a timeless, old-world look or a contemporary, bold approach combined with functionality and individual style; the options truly are limitless. If you are looking for unique, handcrafted wrought iron pieces that are designed to make a style statement, then opt for Bago Luma Wrought Iron Products.
These over sized yet artful pieces are sure to add a touch of style and drama to a living space, transforming it completely while still maintaining practicality. Bago Luma products have been around since the past 12 years, and are known for their unique designs and superior craftsmanship. Judy Deaton, owner and co-founder at Bago Luma, believes in individuality, and each piece is exclusively designed with attention to quality and detail.
by Joanna
Today’s homes are filled with families enjoying decor that is both beautiful and functional. Interior designers are often plagued with the problem of making a home warm and inviting, while utilizing items that will last a long time. Wrought iron has regained its popularity due to a charm and durability that goes back several centuries. The average American family has a busy lifestyle between work, school, extra-curricular activities and play. A fast-paced living environment deserves to look great with a comfortable atmosphere.
by Joanna
The town blacksmith was a busy individual in the early 1800’s. Everything from tools and nails to cookware and furniture were constructed in small dark shops by a skilled craftsman. Wrought, which is derived from the meaning “worked metal,” was the iron of choice. In its authentic stage, wrought iron is embedded with slivers of iron silicate known as slag that actually change the chemical properties when heated. The slag gives this metal a grainy look similar to wood, adding to its physical appearance and beauty. Wrought iron was quite popular before the development of steelmaking. It was best known for strength, resistance to corrosion and malleability.
by Joanna
The rustic artistry of wrought iron plant hangers is a great way to express your style and add that extra touch of class to your hanging foliage. Most wrought iron plant hangers have an artful arch which attaches to either a wall or to a post and is used to suspend hanging baskets or pots filled with lush leaves or heavy blooms. But some wrought iron plant hangers are simpler, designed with an understated iron clamp to display clay pots creatively indoors or outside on fences.
by Joanna
I love my wrought iron garden stakes. They are a constant in the ever changing tides of color that ebb and flow through the flower beds that frame my back yard. When song birds first whisper and then crescendo into a orchestra’s worth of counterpointed warbles and spring emerges as if conjured up with a melodic incantation by those winged magicians, my wrought iron garden stakes stand tall, ready to greet the first bulb plants willing to brave the cold and daring enough to splash color on drab winter beds.
by Joanna
Wrought iron bar stools offer superior stability, durability, and class to almost every decorating style. Wrought iron bar stool designs range from traditional, to modern, to vintage, to country western. You can find the right look for any room. Additionally, they are a great choice for both indoor and outdoor use. Indoors, wrought iron always offers a stylish edge to any room. And outdoors, because they are heavier than other yard furniture, wrought iron bar stools have a stability edge in gusty weather.
by Joanna
Classic wrought iron house numbers and letters look outstanding on nearly every home. But they’re not just for displaying your home address any more. Wrought iron house numbers and letters can be used inside and outside your home to give your home the perfect touch of personality and stamp of ownership. For example, use two different sizes of a decorative font to custom design a wrought iron monogram to hang above a doorway inside or outside your home.
by Joanna
If you are looking for a functional yet artistic piece for safe backyard grilling, or something to provide great outdoor atmosphere, look no further than artist John T. Unger’s fire bowls. John T. Unger provides high quality wrought iron fire bowls made from 100 percent scrap metal, primarily from recycled steel tanks. His green-appeal coupled with the intrinsic beauty of his work have resulted in Unger’s fire bowls being sold all over the world. With pride, he refers to his work as “sustainable design with an edge.” He aims to design for permanence by creating wrought iron fire bowls that will be timeless, lasting for generations.
by Joanna
Spring is in the air and your green thumb is probably itching to be outside getting your backyard garden started for the year. But since we’re not quite to the out-like-a-lamb days of March and the lion’s breath is still adding a fearful nip to the air, you might want to think about bringing a touch of garden inside your house to help with the spring fever until that frosty lion’s been defrosted by those April showers that are right around the corner.