When Nancy decided that the bathroom in her mid-century ranch home needed a facelift, she wanted to upgrade the 50-year-old sink and toilet, but she didn’t want to lose all of the detailing that she loves so much.
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Blending old and new elements is a trend that we see quite often in customer photos. Today’s Featured Customer is no exception. When this husband and wife, who have chosen to remain anonymous, built a new home, they wanted to build a period correct 1750s-style, post-and-beam farmhouse. The home, located on 20 sprawling acres in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, is dotted with stone wall-lined pastures, open fields, and a renovated barn complete with eat-in kitchen and bath.
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We love revisiting customers to see what’s new. Just this week, we crossed paths again with Jocelyn from Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Jocelyn was featured in a blog post not once, but twice, way back in 2011 when she and her husband built their new home. Jocelyn confesses to being up late one night browsing the internet looking for unique lighting when she came across the Barn Light Electric website.
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In last Wednesday’s blog post, we offered some advice on how to choose the correct size of light shade for your space. Today, our Featured Customer, Tony from Decatur, Georgia, schooled us up with another solution — Photoshop!
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If you follow the Barn Light Electric blog, you probably know all about our porcelain enamel lighting. And about the special oven we use to seal the porcelain enamel glass to the hand-spun steel shade. This oven was brought over from Italy in 2013 and revs up to 1,500 degrees creating a super high-gloss finish. In fact, this Labor Day weekend, we will celebrate the two-year anniversary of the launch of our porcelain enamel manufacturing operation!
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Every kid needs a place to just be. To be safe. To be loved. To simply be a kid.
The KidSanctuary Campus in Palm Beach County, Florida, offers exactly that — a place where the most vulnerable kids in the foster care system can thrive. Several South Florida interior designers recently collaborated with KidSanctuary to create rooms that not only give kids shelter but give them a place to dream. Today we talk with Eilyn Cueto, with Sire Design of Aventura, Florida, about the vintage-themed room she created for the campus.
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