The Best Rustic Lighting & Log Cabin Lighting Manufacturers

By Joshua Scheide | December 29, 2025

Your home sits among the pines—timber beams overhead, stone fireplace, everything built with natural materials and careful attention to detail.

Then you start looking for lighting fixtures and realize most options feel wrong. They scream ‘gift shop’ rather than rustic home. The difference between real rustic character and theme park kitsch becomes painfully obvious.

"Rustic" means different things depending on who you ask. For some, it's wildlife motifs worked into metal. For others, it's wagon wheels and antler chandeliers. Still others are looking for something refined, but they won’t know it until they see it.

But authentic rustic design shares common ground: materials and construction that don't hide what they are.

True rustic homes exist where landscape still has presence—mountain clearings, remote properties, camps, working ranches. The buildings sit within their environment using materials that make sense for the region. These structures were built for utility first; the aesthetic emerged from solving practical problems with honest materials. But you don’t have to live in the wilderness to love that aesthetic.

And yes, we manufacture rustic lighting at Old California, so we've included ourselves here. But we know different projects need different solutions, and understanding your options helps you make the right choice.

Here's our list of manufacturers creating rustic and cabin lighting that honors the natural aesthetic rather than caricaturizing it:

Avalanche Ranch Lighting (Washington)

Produces handcrafted steel fixtures spanning lodge, Southwestern/Western, and Craftsman styles as well as wildlife metalwork designs.

Avg. Pricing: $150-$800+ | Available online direct and select retailers

Cast Horn Designs (Utah)

Produces faux antler chandeliers using resin construction. Hand-finished reproductions of whitetail, mule deer, elk, and moose antlers. Also produces fixtures based on working animal tack.

Avg. Pricing: $200-$1,200+ | Available online direct and select retailers

Mica Lamp Company (Closed)

Montana Antler Chandeliers (formerly Alaska Antler Works) (Montana)

Small shop specializing in naturally shed real antler chandeliers and lighting. Ethically sourced or collected by themselves.

Avg. Pricing: $400-$3,000+ | Available online direct

Old California (California)

Produces period lighting including Gold Rush era lantern reproductions and Craftsman options that fit the rustic aesthetic.

Avg. Pricing: $250-$2,000+ | Available online and Southern California showroom

Old Hickory (Indiana)

Produces lighting featuring textured bark construction. Rawhide and parchment shade options.

Avg. Pricing: $300-$1,500+ | Available direct online and select retailers

Steel Partners Lighting (New Mexico)

Produces handcrafted heavy steel fixtures spanning rustic, Western, lodge, and Spanish Revival styles.

Avg. Pricing: $200-$1,500+ | Available direct online and select retailers

The manufacturers listed here produce fixtures built for their environments—not just a ‘rustic theme.’ Steel, brass and genuine natural components hold up where cheap imports fail. Choosing between them comes down to your priorities, budget and what rustic means for your specific project.

At Old California, we manufacture rustic lighting rooted in California's frontier history. Our Sutter's Mill Collection reproduces the lanterns that lit mining camps during the Gold Rush. A selection of our California Craftsman pieces also fit the rustic look like a glove.

Every fixture we make is handcrafted in Southern California using materials that belong in the mountains—period-authentic reproductions and refined rustic designs built to last generations in lodges, retreats and wilderness homes around the country.

Shop our rustic & log cabin lighting collections and find fixtures that feel at home among your timber and stone.

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