The light fixtures in our homes are often something we take for granted. They’re on the wall or hanging from the ceiling, ...

It's inexpensive brass. I would replace those lights with solid brass with a high-quality finish (about $60), cast aluminum with a flat-black finish ($80 to $180), or brass with a PVD coating ...

Brass is a very good substrate for chrome plating. I have two old word war II floating hospital surgery lights that I had chromed by hygrade plating in queens. It was about 8 years ago, so don’t know ...