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Learn How To Mix and Match Styles From the Pros

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We love people who are as passionate about their work as we are about hand crafting our American-made lighting. And no one is more passionate about post war-era ranch homes than Austin King of Rafterhouse. Having just wrapped an HGTV pilot episode, Austin has been incredibly busy of late, but he agreed to take over the blogger’s chair to talk about mixing vintage and modern styles — a technique he loves to use to create visual interest with a touch of history.

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Farmhouse Lighting Cozies Up Your Home for Fall

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This time of year, folks here in Florida have to enjoy fall by cruising our favorite home design blogs and Pinterest boards that tout the latest apple recipes. The view outside our windows is still pretty much green and full of sunshine, but we too enjoy getting cozy for the season. No matter where you live, you can infuse your home with the colors and textures of fall with a few simple touches borrowed from the popular farmhouse style.

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Guest Blogger | When Old Meets New: Vintage Touches for the Contemporary Home

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Living in a contemporary home and appreciating history don’t have to be mutually exclusive. In fact, the real design magic happens when old meets new, or when a vintage aesthetic gets a mod twist. The marriage of past and present is an important part of the Barn Light Electric ethos, which, with the help of highly skilled American artisans, has spent nearly a decade reviving the lost American art form of hand-spun porcelain lighting. Today, when most have abandoned this craft for less-expensive manufacturing methods, BLE is the only company in America producing traditional porcelain enamel lighting made for the present-day lifestyle.

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Guest Blogger | Beyond the Kitchen Island: The Versatility of Pendant Lighting

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With endless mounting options, shade shapes, and styles, pendant lighting complements any design aesthetic and can be used virtually anywhere. However, the pendant light is most often associated with the kitchen island – and understandably so. It provides the ideal lighting for the task-oriented space and adds interest without interrupting the eye line. But the pendant can do so much more. Here are a few of my favorite ways to use pendant lights beyond the kitchen island:

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Design 101: How to Embrace Color in Your Lighting Selections

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One of the comments we hear quite often from customers is how much they love the extended range of colors we offer in our lighting collections. In our Barn Pendant Lighting collection, for example, we offer a variety of different powder coat finish colors ranging from basic black to bold royal blue. But many people shy away from using color in their lighting so we asked our good friend Sandy Cooper, Operations Manager for Spring Creek Design, to offer her advice on this question:

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