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Light Up the Night with Cupola Lanterns

2/26/2021

During the long winter months, nothing cheers up your home’s exterior quite like a cupola lantern! Our unique collection of cupola lanterns gives your home a welcoming glow that your friends and family will enjoy. There are numerous benefits to adding exterior lighting to your home, from highlighting architectural features (such as a custom cupola) to creating a specific ambiance. Outdoor lighting also increases safety, as it is an excellent crime deterrent and makes it easier to navigate your yard and driveway after dark. Exterior lighting also increases the curb appeal of your home, both while you live there and when you choose to sell.

Cupola Lanterns for Every Home

At Valley Forge Cupolas, we offer cupola lanterns in a wide variety of sizes and styles to complement any design or architectural style. Here we have one of our newest styles, the New York Lantern. This lantern’s circular design and clean, black lines are the perfect accompaniment to a modern home. (For a more minimalist look, consider our Capture Lantern.)

An extremely popular and enduring design is the Onion Lantern. This distinctive design can be found throughout coastal communities where it was first introduced in the early 1800s. Used as nighttime work lights on fishing vessels, these lanterns got their name from the onion-shaped globe of glass that protected the flame from rain, wind and sea spray. A cage was added to protect the globe from breaking, completing this classic design. Our Onion Lantern comes in a beautiful copper finish, and is the perfect addition to any Cape Cod or coastal home.

Our Old Colony and Beacon lanterns are the perfect combination of traditional and contemporary. These elegant designs hark back to pre-electric days when streets and homes were lit by oil lamps. Function and durability were the most prized elements in these lanterns, so there was a focus on strong, clean lines that didn’t hide the light. With an air of sophisticated simplicity, these lanterns elevate any design, from rustic to postmodern.

We make it easy to illuminate your roofline with one of our beautiful cupola lanterns. For a small additional fee, we can fit one of the windows of your cupola with an inside hinge. Simply remove the exterior screws, and the window will swing upward. Prop the window open, and you can easily install your new cupola lantern or change out the bulb.

If you are interested in adding a cupola or cupola lantern to your home, call Valley Forge Cupolas today at 866-400-1776. Our cupola specialists are happy to answer all your questions and pair you with the perfect products for your home!

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What Color Should I Paint My Cupola?

2/19/2021

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When selecting the perfect cupola for your home, there are several details to consider, including size, style, material and custom accents. One factor that can get overlooked is picking out a cupola paint color. While many customers choose traditional white cupolas, there is a rainbow of possibilities to choose from. Our cupolas are built from PVC vinyl and Western Red Cedar, both of which can easily be painted to match any color scheme.

How to Choose a Cupola Paint Color

When picking a color scheme, it’s a good idea to acquaint yourself with the color wheel. This tool will help you avoid choosing colors that clash or simply don’t blend. An easy way to keep things simple is to stick to two colors on your home’s exterior: one main color for siding, and one for trim. If your siding is dark, choose a lighter color for your trim, and vice versa. If your siding is a medium tone, a darker trim will give a more modern look while a lighter trim is more traditional. With this approach, you would paint the body of your cupola to match the siding and paint the base and/or accents to match the trim.

Cupola Paint Color Example

This elegant custom 30” Bethany Cupola gracefully adorns a 20’ carport. Our customer painted the cupola to match the warm, neutral tones of their home’s siding and stonework, and then detailed the trim in a rich, dark green that highlights the window below. This is an example of a triad color scheme because green, brown, and blue (the undertone in the shingles) are evenly spaced around the color wheel. By choosing two darker tones and one brighter tone, the homeowner was able to evoke a traditional, rich look.

Here’s an excellent example of matching your cupola to your home. We created this custom cupola for a customer from the architect renderings they provided. By painting the cupola to match the building and adding shingles, the customer created a seamless design. Not only is the cupola a perfect fit for their custom layout, it looks like an original piece of the building.

You can also choose paint colors that highlight a specific design scheme of your building. For this commercial project, the customer chose cupolas with grey bases and roofs and white vents. The strip of white on the cupolas provides the perfect contrast to the strip of grey below, creating a unique, eye-catching design with only two simple colors.

For an extra pop of color, our Sundance cupolas feature cellular PVC vinyl and a metal roof and base. The metal is available in 25 beautiful colors that complement any color scheme. Whether your style is traditional or modern, we have the color to match.

Not sure what cupola paint color is right for your home? Call our cupola specialists today at 866-400-1776. We can answer all your cupola questions and help you order the cupola of your dreams.

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Custom Commercial Cupolas for Any Business

2/12/2021

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“Beautiful products and worth the quality and craftsmanship that goes into these. I shopped around for a long time; these guys are the best.” - Josh S.

At Valley Forge Cupolas, our beautiful custom cupolas aren't just for homeowners: we are proud to offer custom cupolas for commercial applications as well. From shopping centers to restaurants, our commercial cupolas will give your building an attractive facelift that draws customers in. If you are a contractor, builder or developer looking for high-quality custom cupolas, we are the experienced team you’ve been looking for.

All of our cupolas are handcrafted by skilled Pennsylvania craftsmen to your exact specifications. We can create any size or style cupola you need to complement both new and existing structures. We also offer special pricing on larger projects so you can be certain you are getting a competitive rate on your custom order.

All of our cupolas are built from durable, high-quality materials, such as copper, Western Red Cedar, and PVC vinyl. These maintenance-free materials ensure your cupola will remain beautiful for decades to come without any hassle. Another benefit is that these materials can be easily painted to match your building’s exterior. As you can see in the photo below, we were able to perfectly match the grey and white pattern of our customer’s building to create a sharp, cohesive look for their business. No matter what roofing material you have, our cupolas make a beautiful addition.

In addition to stellar craftsmanship, Valley Forge Cupolas offers unparalleled customer service. Our cupola specialists provide responsive and timely assistance, using their years of experience to help you choose the perfect size, style and material for your project. We work around your tight deadlines to ensure you have the product you need, when you need it. We always go the extra mile to achieve our goal of 100% customer satisfaction.

We are also the only cupola supplier to provide our customers with custom digital quotes. Simply send a photo or blueprint to MagicCupolas@ValleyForgeCupolas.com and we will supply you with a custom image that shows exactly what you’re getting along with an accurate estimate of its cost. Contractors who haven’t submitted their proposals can include our custom digital quotes to better succeed in acquiring projects.

Order Your Custom Commercial Cupola Today

Whether you need cupolas for office spaces or a horse training facility, Valley Forge Cupolas makes ordering custom cupolas a breeze. Call us any day of the week at 866-400-1776 to discuss your project with one of our cupola specialists. We look forward to doing business with you!

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Beautiful Cupola Images to Inspire You!

2/5/2021

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We love sharing cupola images from our satisfied customers to help inspire your cupola dreams! All of our beautiful cupolas are handcrafted in the USA by Pennsylvania craftsmen, using only high-quality building materials for a superior, long-lasting product. You can choose a cupola from our extensive collection, or create a one-of-a-kind custom cupola with the help of our cupola specialists. The possibilities are endless!

Find Inspiration in Some of Our Favorite Cupola Images

This beautiful barn-style garage features a Vinyl Concave cupola with louvers and our popular Horse on the Run weathervane. The gentle curves of the concave roof and eyelid arches above the louvers provide a nice contrast to the sharp lines on the rest of the garage. The color of the patinated copper roof complements the shingle roof, creating a cohesive look.

Thar she blows! A 36” Carlisle cupola and Whale weathervane add a fun nautical twist to this two car garage. We added extra corner trim to the base of the cupola as well as a cupola lantern to help light up the home at night. The patina finish of the weathervane highlights the dark roof and doors of the garage, while the polished copper of the cupola roof accents the light siding.

In this cupola image we have our most popular model, the vinyl CNC Window cupola. It’s arched, multi-paned windows and concave roof easily complement any design, and it is available in a wide range of sizes to fit any roofline. This customer paired it with a traditional rooster weathervane in a brilliant polished finish. We have 15 different rooster weathervane designs to choose from, including our new Bantam Red Rooster with red color accents!

The Waterford cupola is a unique design that features both windows and louvers. It’s perfect for spaces that would benefit from both extra ventilation and natural light. For this home, we added horizontal shiplap trim to the base. Shiplap is a great way to accentuate the vinyl siding on your home.

Custom Cupola Designs

All of our cupolas can be customized to meet your exact needs and style. Just take a look at how we’ve transformed the Morton cupola above. The classic Morton is a louver style cupola with a concave roof. In the center, we customized it to have an elongated concave roof, corner trim on the base, and an extended drip rail. On the right, our customer needed an extra tall cupola, so we heightened the louver section, created a custom roof, and added a beautiful shiplap base.

If you have a specific cupola image in mind, we can bring it to life! Call us today at 866-400-1776 to speak to one of our cupola specialists.

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Light Up the Night with Cupola Lanterns

Cupola Lanterns for Every Home

What Color Should I Paint My Cupola?

How to Choose a Cupola Paint Color

Cupola Paint Color Example

Custom Commercial Cupolas for Any Business

Order Your Custom Commercial Cupola Today

Beautiful Cupola Images to Inspire You!

Find Inspiration in Some of Our Favorite Cupola Images

Custom Cupola Designs

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