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Barn Wall Sconce Highlights Restaurant Menu for City Strollers

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barn_light_wall_sconce_commercial-626x1024.jpgWhen you’re in business, you can do all the big things right and still have trouble getting people in the door. Sometimes, it’s the little things that make a difference. Take this sweet little wall sconce for instance. It’s doing a big job highlighting the restaurant menu outside the entry with classic barn light style. Passersby might be tempted to stop, take a look, and maybe even wander in for an appetizer, drink, or perhaps dinner.
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Bold Angle Shades Draw Many to Cooperative Art Gallery

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gooseneck_angle_shade_exterior_lighting1-300x291.jpgThe Sourwood Gallery, located in Black Mountain, North Carolina, is a cooperative venture full of creativeness both inside and out. Inside you’ll find paintings, pottery, sculpture, jewelry, turned wood, photography, stained glass, and other examples of fine art. And though the artisans could have focused soley on their own work, they didn’t neglect the outside of the old brick downtown building. Highlighting the sky blue Sourwood Gallery sign and awning are bold and bright red angle shade lights that draw attention from two blocks away. These gooseneck angle shades, much like our Angle Shade Gooseneck Sign Lighting, project from the rooftop out and down to highlight the sign and awning. Read More »

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Porcelain Deep Bowl Shades Give Classic Touch of Americana

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The farm-to-table movement is gaining momentum across the country not only because fresh simply tastes better, but because restaurants typically love supporting their local economy. A strong local economy means people eat out more often! Buying local helps your neighbors thrive and is also easier on the environment as less travel means less energy consumption and less pollution. Asheville, North Carolina, a leader in the Buy Local movement, has a vibrant restaurant scene that includes many establishments with a focus on local ingredients. The Early Girl Eatery is one such restaurant that has stayed true to its motto “made from scratch” by creating a wide variety of dishes that reflect true southern cooking with fresh meats, cheeses, and produce.
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Rustic Warehouse Pendants Meet Cutting Edge Web Design Firm

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One of the things we love most about barn lights, and quite frankly there are a lot of reasons to love them, is the flexibility to take a simple, hand crafted shade design and customize it to give it so many different looks. Take this office for example. It’s the home of Integritive, a webbarn_light_warehouse_pendant_commercial-300x217.jpg design and development company in North Carolina. It’s filled with bright young minds that are creating new e-commerce and e-marketing strategies. And their very modern office space is filled with barn lights!
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Professional’s Corner | An Aussie Diner’s Before & After

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Screen-Shot-2012-02-08-at-1.03.22-PM.pngThe Juke Joint Diner, a 50s style cafe in Melbourne Australia, closed last year and underwent a major transformation. When the doors reopened, it was the new Laurie Dee’s serving up American burgers and frozen custard. Cobi Marsh of Cobi Retail Design Architects took the lead on the redesign of this cafe and one of her goals was to completely change the look and feel of the place.
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Porcelain Goosenecks Lend Style to Historic Shipyard

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Bath, Maine is a city rich in shipbuilding history. One of the most popular tourist destinations in Bath is the Maine Maritime Museum located on the scenic shores of the Kennebec River which boasts an active waterfront even today. The museum is an historic shipyard that includes five original 19th century buildings where visitors can explore and learn about the colorful history of Bath, its shipbuilding industry, and life at sea.
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