FAQ

For lighting and hardware exposed to humidity and heat, you can't beat Polished Nickel, Brushed Nickel, and Polished Chrome.

Polished Nickel was the traditional choice for turn-of-the-century kitchens and bathrooms - and with good reason. Nickel plating, which has a warm, amber hue, provides a hard, protective shell for solid brass fixtures, making them less susceptible to the pitting caused by humidity. Chrome plating, which has a much cooler, blueish hue, came about with the advent of automobile mass production.

Lacquered brass finishes eventually pit in bathrooms and other humid or hot locations. Our Polished Nickel and Polished Chrome need no lacquer to preserve their durability. We also don't lacquer our Brushed Nickel lighting, but we do lacquer our Brushed Nickel hardware.

Tip: If you're ordering Porch Lighting and if chrome and nickel aren't your cup of tea, we suggest painted Black Enamel or Oil-Rubbed Bronze, dark finishes which are the least likely lacquered finishes to show pitting.