My favorite lighting shops on Etsy

Where to find unique, beautiful, and affordable fixtures for your home

“Where did you find all of the lighting in your home?” This is one of the questions I get asked most when we have guests over, and my go-to answer is: Etsy!

When we started renovating our Denver townhouse, I knew I wanted to find beautiful, unique fixtures that could be the “jewelry” of the home. The right lighting is often the final touch that makes a room feel complete.

But quality lighting tends to be incredibly expensive—even more so when you start looking at multi-bulb, large-scale fixtures. Since this isn’t our forever home, I didn’t want to overspend, so I turned to Etsy for special pieces that wouldn’t break the bank.

Prices on these lights range from about $100-800, with multi-bulb chandeliers trending toward the high end of that. While not necessarily inexpensive, relative to what you can get from the likes of brands like Visual Comfort, Kelly Wearstler, etc. Etsy makers often offer very good value—many pieces we’ve bought off of Etsy are solid brass with realistic patina, vs. the sprayed-gold look you often end up with from big box stores.

I’m slightly appalled to share that I’ve sunk umm, hundreds of hours, over the course of the last two years into browsing lighting on Etsy. So I hope you can benefit from some of my finds!

Let there be (pretty) light,

Teresa

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Here are the five Etsy shops I’ve sourced unique chandeliers, sconces, and flush mounts from for our Denver home:

Emily Schuman’s living room, designed by Katie Hodges.

1. Enchant Lighting. After striking out on several other sconce options, we bought three curved disc lights for our stairwell. They’re sculptural and interesting little works of art, and in the rare instance someone walks upstairs into the private quarters where all my mess hides, we always get compliments. You can also get the streamlined three-light look in the above image with the slingshot chandelier from Enchant—another option I considered for our office.

   

   Inscapes Design makes lights similar to the sconces in Athena Calderone’s kitchen.

2. Inscapes Design. This shop makes beautiful lighting that is heavy and high quality. The handcrafted Bolivar, a six-light ceiling fixture, hangs over our dining table. I loved that we were able to customize the exact length of the rods to accommodate our specific ceiling height! We had a little snafu, and they were very responsive and quick to resolve our customer issues. These wall sconces look very similar to Athena Calderone’s kitchen lighting.

3. Olde Brick Lighting: I discovered Olde Brick Lighting through Chris Loves Julia, who have one of their semi-flush mounts in their old entryway. We ordered a milk glass globe semi-flush mount fixture and love it! Their lighting leans a little more traditional/schoolhouse than I normally gravitate toward, but the globe fixture is a clean, simple option for our entryway. They were also able to customize the globe size for us, too.

   

   Get this look with the Lollo flush mount from Light Cookie.

4. Light Cookie: LightCookie is a lighting shop out of Greece with beautiful, interesting designs. I hung LightCookie’s Giacomo plaster chandelier in the office and love the way it adds a little texture to the room without too much contrast against our white ceilings. Their plaster flower sconces look lovely, too—they would be so fun flanking a mirror or piece of art. The Lollo flush mount is very similar to the light in the bedroom above and would be such a statement for a room with lower ceilings. And this single tube spotlight would be a neat alternative to doing recessed lighting in a room.

5. BootsnGus: This Ann Arbor, Michigan shop offers an excellent variety of affordable lighting. I used this brass flush mount wall light over a circular mirror in one of our guest bathrooms, and I think the ribbing adds adds a unique touch to an otherwise basic bathroom. The brass finish on this light is a bit shinier and yellow than I’d like, but this shop is a great source if you’re looking for more reasonably priced options.

Want even more to peruse? I haven’t ordered from the shops below yet, but have these lights saved in my Etsy favorites:

1. Pair of wall lights, $444 (TheARTofObject)

2. Cask mini, $150 (Raraforma)

3. Art deco chandelier, $665 (Sputnik Lights)

4. Bedside plugin sconce, $179 (newwildoldbottles)

5. Rattan flush mount, $199 (Reveal Home)

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1. Check your measurements twice. I am the first to admit I’ve bought lights that were way off in scale or didn’t cover my junction boxes because I didn’t check dimensions carefully. Returns can be extra tricky with Etsy. While I’ve found Etsy sellers to be generally flexible and accommodating, especially when they are small businesses trying to earn your five-star reviews, it’s expensive and inconvenient to repackage and return ship lighting, so I typically consider it ordering lighting on Etsy a final sale, done deal.

2. Leverage the reviews—and the reviewers. Etsy now allows you to send a message to other users, and I’ve found other Etsy shoppers are more than willing to share reviews, tips, and sources. I love that it does feel like a little community of makers and the people who love them! Before messages were a feature, I once tracked down someone’s Instagram profile, slid into her DMs, and asked for her thoughts on the disc lights before I bought them! She very helpfully sent me both photos and videos of the lights, installed and uninstalled.

3. Plan for a long ship time. Many items are made-to-order, so you’ll need to factor in both the manufacturing and the shipping time. Unless the shop explicitly says that the item is US-made, I’ve often found that many lighting shops are actually shipping items from India. I’ve had lighting take several weeks to ship, and in some cases even months, so order with time to spare. That said, all the lighting I’ve received from India has been of excellent quality, so I have no qualms about it coming from abroad.

4. If you’re seeing something similar to but not quite what you want, reach out directly to the seller and ask about customization options. I’ve been able to customize the length of the drop, the size of the globe, the type of finish—you name it! Because so many of these pieces are being made to order anyway, in my experience, there’s no significant up-charge for customization.

I’d love to hear your favorite lighting sources—drop us a link in the comments if you’ve discovered any other Etsy gems!

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