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| Soaring Eagle Sconce |
Recently, we worked on a custom light proposal for a hotel in the forests of Oregon. They requested an Eagle soaring on one of our light fixtures. Since we have a talented and artistic staff, we were able to create a drawing and convert it into a Eagle light, base on our popular Cascade Large sconce. This is just one example of how a Made in USA lighting company can quickly design and make a unique lighting fixture.
We are going to include the Eagle on all of our Cascade series of sconces pendants and rustic bath lights. If you are interested in one for yourself, here is the link: Cascade Large Wall Sconce with Eagle
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| Grapevine, TX |
Anyone with children will agree that the Great Wolf Lodge is a fabulous place to spend time together. And with our children, it is also their greatest source of pride when it comes to the tour of rustic lights and Avalanche Ranch Lighting’s hospitality customers. Cat’s meow to have our lodge style lights–hundreds of them–light up the guest rooms and spaces of Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine, TX.
For anyone not familiar with this chain of lodges, Great Wolf Lodge offers a huge indoor water park, interactive games and a cabin themed guest suite experience. These themed hotels are located in 10 US cities along with Niagara Falls, Canada. The Great Wolf Lodge website offers deals for upcoming months, so check it out for a fun Fall getaway with your family.
As far as lodge style lights are concerned, the Great Wolf Lodge Grapevine location features many styles of our rustic sconces, chandeliers, semi-flush and close to ceiling lights. We did some customization by converting everything to compact florescent and 277 volts. Here are a couple of the lights you’ll see a lot of in your visit.
Sea Ranch Resort is located along the north Oregon coast – a splendid blend of ocean, forest and mountains. This area 
has long been a popular destination point for vacationers. Cannon Beach, just 70 miles from Portland and 30 miles south of Washington State and the mouth of the great Columbia River, is a prized jewel among Oregon’s coastal resort communities. It is nestled between the Coast Mountain Range and Pacific Ocean along miles of flat, sandy beaches and forested headlands that jut into the sea.
Offering camping and RV sites, along with cabins, this peaceful wooded setting is one of Oregon Coast’s best kept secrets. In addition to the Stables which offer guided rides for the entire family, Sea Ranch Resort has a wellness center, a store/laundry and an event Lodge. A few years back they turned to Avalanche Ranch Lighting to light up these spaces. Here is just a small offering of the cabin lighting that you’ll find at Sea Ranch Lodge.
The BEST WESTERN Sheridan Center Hotel is located at the base of the astonishing Big Horn Mountain Range in historic downtown Sheridan. This hotel offers 139 newly renovated spacious rooms in western elegance. And to get this feel in the conference center they specified Avalanche Ranch Lighting’s Ridgecrest Sconces and Ridgemont Chandeliers.
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| Best Western Sheridan Center and Ridgemont Sconces and Chandeliers |
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| Ridgemont Chandelier |
Western elegance can mean many things. In this case the simple design of the Ridgemont Series, the rustic, hand finished metal and the rough cut edge are hallmark features which distinguish these lights as western style. Elegant comes in the absence of western imagery. These are not the average cowboy lights you might find in this neck of the woods.
Visit here for more information on Sheridan WY and it’s famous rodeo.
This lovely Colorado vacation rental near the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park hosts 13 of our rustic lighting products, most of them with the spruce design.
Here’s what the listing for this vacation property says about its location: The setting of this incredible, secluded mountain home is Wild Basin with a mosaic of lakes, streams, waterfalls, wetlands and a plethora of other water topographical features. The best hiking in the park is literally right outside the cabin. The St. Vrain River borders the property – guests can fish free.
This vacation home boasts 5 bedrooms (3 of them suites), a bunk room and a grandma room (gotta love that) on the main floor. A wraparound porch and hot tub make this home complete with the amenities for a great vacation. I want to book a week!
The home has been appointed with Avalanche Ranch Lighting in the kitchen (Canyon Mtn Spruce Pendants), Family Room (Diablo Sconces), Dining Room (Ridgewood Ceiling Lights) as well as Bathroom Lights (Wasatch design) and a Double Bar Light. This is rustic mountain design at its best.
To view property information, click here.
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| Tod Mtn Ranch Lodge wth Rocky Mtn Table Lamps |
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Tod Mtn Ranch Cabin wtih Cascade Table Lamps
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Tod Mountain Ranch is a dude ranch located in BC’s Southern Interior. The ranch can accommodate 16 guests in newly constructed cabins, each with a private bathroom. Guests share a western style living, dining and games area in the guest lodge. An inclusive resort means you are served up three cowboy meals a day and some great BC wines and Canadian beers. They ride in almost 30,000 hectares of mountain trails, forest and alpine that surrounds the ranch and is home to bear, deer, moose and coyote. Look up and you just might see a baldeagle or hawk flying overhead. Sounds like the perfect place for some of our lamps, eh?
You’ll find two styles of table lamps adorning and lighting the lodge and cabins at Tod Mountain Ranch. In the cabins, the Cascade Horse Table and Desk Lamps and in the Lodge the Rocky Mountain Table Lamps–one with Moose and the other with Deer. Although we haven’t visited Tod Mountain, we have explored this region of BC in both the winter and summer and can attest to the nature’s bounty that exists here.
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The Starfish Vanity Light (custom backplate) created by Avalanche Ranch Lighting for the Inn at Cape Kiwanda
A few years back, the owners of the Inn at Cape Kiwanda renovated all the bathrooms in the inn–where every room has a view!–to include the Avalanche Ranch Lighting Starfish Vanity Light. The combination of the cobalt blue vanity and the rust patina of the light is fantastic. Also scattered throughout this 35 room inn in the delightful seaside down of Pacific City OR are Starfish Reflection Sconces, shown here next to the grand fireplace in the lobby–which looks out onto Haystack Rock. Avalanche Ranch Lighting prides itself on the ability to customize almost any light with a specific design motif–in this case the starfish.
Consistently rated at one of the best beaches to vacation with your dog(s), we found the big dune and the Pelican Inn and the lovely Inn at Cape Kiwanda reason enough to want to return to this gem sans pets. Just waiting for the perpetual rains to end…
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| Looking out onto Haystack Rock from the Inn at Cape Kiwanda |
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| View more Starfish Lights here |
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Avalanche Ranch Lights in the Marine
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Our first stop on the tour of rustic lights across America takes us to the San Juan Island of Orcas. Just a ferry ride away from Anacortes, WA, Orcas Island is home to the YMCA Camp Orkila. We visited Camp Orkila a few years back for Family Camp and had a blast–also good fun to find our lights in the Marine Center. I recommend attending Family Camp to introduce elementary age children to the idea of sleep-over camp and all the joys of the camp experience, especially the nightly campfires which included skits and songs. In our case, fond memories of Grandpa Charlie playing his guitar.
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| A school of salmon |
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| Sunset from Camp Orkila |
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| Grandpa Charlie entertains. |
The Travelin’ Trout Sconce is one of Avalanche Ranch Lightings original designs. It is handcrafted and handpainted and looks great on these knotty pine walls. We supplied the camp with the individual metal salmon cutouts for the assemblage of fish on the wall. Also in the Marine Center is a Salmon Crestline Chandelier, shown below.
Beginning this month, Avalanche Ranch is taking to the road for a virtual tour of our hospitality customers across the United States. We’ll make visits to the camps, hotels, restaurants, lodges and ranches who use our lights as part of their decor–some having been our customers since way back in the early days of crafting lights. We’ll begin in Bellingham, WA, the home of our manufacturing facility, which is also the host to the Famous Ski to Sea Race. You can see why we’re inspired by nature’s riches in this part of the world.
Every week we’ll post a new location. Follow our blog to follow us as we explore the places where nature inspires and showcase the settings of our rustic, handcrafted lights.
All you horse lovers out there will be happy to know that we have created a new web page that showcases all of our rustic horse themed lights – all 125 of them! One of the most popular new styles is the halogen horse light, which is available as a single sconce (shown here), as well as double and triple bath vanity lights. Click here for direct access to the Avalanche Ranch Lighting Rustic Horse Lights
