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Featured Customer | Gooseneck Lights Bring Historic Touch to Conch-Style House

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They pack a lot of culture, sunshine, and absolute fun into the seven square miles that make up our nation’s southernmost city. While Key West, Florida, is known for many things, the history of the place is particularly fascinating. Cuba may come to mind when you think of cigar making, but Key West was once considered the cigar capital of the world shipping more than 62 million cigars annually. In the late 1800s, there were more than 80 cigar factories with hundreds of workers living in small conch houses. One of these houses, severely damaged by fire in 2011, was recently rebuilt by today’s Featured Customer Mark who shares with us why he chose gooseneck barn lighting to honor the history of the home.
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Repurposed Warehouse Shades Find New Life in Australian Retreat

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While we knew that RLM warehouse shades were all the rage in the United States during the 1930s and 40s in factories and warehouses, apparently they were quite popular Down Under too. Our friends at the Red Brick Barn, a rustic, two-story retreat in central Victoria, found some vintage warehouse shades at a local flea market and repurposed them for use in the communal dining room. The shades were green enamel when found at the flea market but were spray painted an off-white color leaving a hint of green showing at the rim as an accent.

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Featured Customer | Remodel Blends Traditional Architecture with Modern Industrial Touches

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With the vintage rage still roaring like a flapper in the 1920s, it’s no wonder people salvage historical details whenever they remodel. In this Featured Customer’s 1,500-square-foot apartment in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, there were many pre-war details the homeowners wished to save.
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Porcelain Graniteware Pendants Grace a Wisconsin Log Home

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Some home styles are very flexible when it comes to dècor and fixtures. You can dress up an older home with sleek finishes and geometric shapes for a more modern touch or use industrial dècor to give a dated space an edgy new look. It all depends on your taste and, of course, your budget. A log home, however, almost begs for a rustic touch. When Colleen started building her log home on the Red Cedar River in Chetek, Wisconsin, she knew barn lighting would come into play.
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Porcelain Pendant Lights for Barn-Style Home in Utah Mountains

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A remodeling project often starts with just a nagging feeling that something in a space needs attention. It may be a worn out rug, a sagging sofa, or lighting that needs updating. Luckily, lighting is one of the easiest and most economical ways to give a room new life and a fresh look! When one of our recent Featured Customers recently tackled the remodeling of her home — a barn-like structure nestled in a beautiful valley in the mountains of Utah — she focused on aesthetic changes which included new porcelain enamel lighting in several rooms.

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Featured Customer | Colorful Porcelain Pendants Star in Apartment Remodel

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When you tackle a remodeling project, there is a laundry list of decisions to make — what rooms need attention, will the changes be cosmetic or structural, and what kind of budget is realistic for the family. When Eva took on the remodeling of her home, a barn-like structure nestled in a beautiful valley in the mountains of Utah, she focused on aesthetic changes which included new porcelain lighting in several rooms. Lighting is one of the easiest and most economical ways to give a room new life and a fresh look!
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