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Nautical Wall Sconces Add Industrial, Coastal Style to Any Space

How-To, Lighting 101 Betty L Leave a Comment on Nautical Wall Sconces Add Industrial, Coastal Style to Any Space

Climbing a lighthouse should be on everyone’s bucket list. Just north of us on the central Florida coast is the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse, the state’s tallest lighthouse, which rises 175 feet offering a panoramic view of the Atlantic, the inlet, and the surrounding coastline. Keeping the light shining was essential in the early and often dangerous days of coastal navigation and it was up to the lightkeeper to climb the 213 steps to the top to maintain the Fresnel lens that beckoned sailors safely home. As you retrace the lightkeeper’s steps up the winding staircase, you’ll notice bulkhead lights on every landing. These nautical wall sconces are often round but also come in this oblong shape.
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Style Me Sunday: Festive Barn-Inspired Laundry Room

How-To, Laundry Rooms & Mudrooms, Style Guides Betty 1 Comment on Style Me Sunday: Festive Barn-Inspired Laundry Room

Remember our last Style Me Sunday spotlighting utilitarian spaces? This week we’re looking at the room most of us dread: The Laundry Room.

Let’s take a moment to switch our sentiments from the tediousness of folding laundry and sorting out whites to reflect on the good elements of doing laundry. Everyone loves the feeling of swaddling warm towels fresh from the dryer, and the scent of mountain fresh laundry detergent is quite refreshing.
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Schoolhouse Shades, Barn Wall Lights for a 1920s Farmhouse

Home Tours, Residential Inspiration Betty Leave a Comment on Schoolhouse Shades, Barn Wall Lights for a 1920s Farmhouse

Like most extensive remodeling projects, Katie’s efforts on a 1920s-era farmhouse in Wellington, Colorado, have been underway for more than two years. She and her husband are working slowly to bring the jewel-in-the-rough back to its original state. One of Katie’s goals was to pay attention to the details — finding the perfect barn lights was paramount to her project.

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Schoolhouse Lights Bring Out the Best in Old School Design

How-To, Kitchens, Style Guides Betty 2 Comments on Schoolhouse Lights Bring Out the Best in Old School Design

The phrase “old school” gets bandied about to describe any number of things from clothing to language to video games. And while old school might mean traditional or old-fashioned to some, it also conveys a sense of timeless and classic design that never goes out of style. In the lighting industry, nothing says old school like vintage schoolhouse lights. This beautiful kitchen has loads of old-school style from the subway tile backsplash that floats right over the countertops to the rustic ceiling treatment studded with flush mount schoolhouse lights. Where a pendant would hang too low in this space, the flush mount fixtures hug the ceiling and spread just the right amount of glow without being obtrusive.
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Industrial Styling, Nautical Details Combine for Distinctive Fixture

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The classic styling of an RLM warehouse shade has long been a popular choice for both residential and commercial lighting venues where a downward focus of light is desirable. Think restaurant tables and retail store displays on the commercial side and kitchen islands and front porches on the residential side. The bowl shape of the warehouse shade keeps the light directed down, not splashing onto the next table or into the neighbor’s front yard. But sometimes you a bit of uplighting add visual interest to a fixture and provides more light to a space.
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Warehouse Shade, Wire Pendant for Our 3rd Place B.L.O.G. Winner!

Living Rooms, Residential Inspiration Betty L Leave a Comment on Warehouse Shade, Wire Pendant for Our 3rd Place B.L.O.G. Winner!

This summer’s annual B.L.O.G. contest — that’s Barn Light Online Giveaway — came at a perfect time for Shannan in Goshen, Indiana. A blogger who muses about house and home on her Flower Patch Farmgirl blog, Shannan and her husband Cory, along with kids Calvin, Ruby and Silas, were in the middle of building a new home so the contest was a great way to score some lighting for their new digs.
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