In September 2011, a fire broke out in a 150-year-old building that housed a hotel, bar, and Frank M. Booth, Inc. Water damage was significant for this 100-year-old company so the owners decided to remodel. As the structure was torn apart, they noticed large, hand-hewn columns that were part of the original building — a […]
The historic Travis Heights neighborhood in south Austin, Texas is more than 100 years old and features a range of home styles from 1920s bungalows to carriage houses renovated into apartments, to larger, more modern homes. Close to downtown but with plenty of wooded, rolling land, Travis Heights is one of the most sought-after addresses […]
When Emily of Houston was expecting her first child, she and her husband wanted the nursery to be a relaxing space full of meaningful items for a baby boy. Along with handmade curtains and bedding and an embroidered verse over the crib, the couple chose to highlight the nursery with a rustic Laramie Pendant from […]
Sometimes you find interesting lighting in the most unexpected places. On a recent trip to the Grovewood Gallery, a 9,000-square-foot showcase of some of America’s finest artists and craftsmen, we were pleasantly surprised to find not only the friendliest standard poodle ever was waiting to greet us, but an array of RLM-inspired warehouse shades in […]
When homeowners Carrie and Chris purchased their new home in Rhode Island, they had one goal in mind — to make it their own and to have fun in the process. “We purposely bought the worst house in the best neighborhood with the intention of starting over from scratch,” Carrie says. “Our house is more […]
People throw the term “classic” around to describe a lot of different things — from ’60s rock music to Roman civilization to an antique Ford Thunderbird. The term classic light gets used quite a bit around here and often pertains to the RLM warehouse shade designs from the 1930s. These fixtures were sometimes called barn lights but […]
