In last Wednesday’s blog post, we offered some advice on how to choose the correct size of light shade for your space. Today, our Featured Customer, Tony from Decatur, Georgia, schooled us up with another solution — Photoshop!
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It’s a big decision to completely remodel your kitchen. And perhaps an even bigger decision when the current space isn’t really all that bad. For an Asheville, North Carolina couple, the decision to rip out their current kitchen hinged on functionality. They both love to cook and the old layout just didn’t work for two. Plus there was no eat-in area for their four kids to hang out while mom and dad prepped and served three meals a day.
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When you’re the second owner of a home (or third or fourth for that matter), you often find yourself adapting to other people’s choices in home design and décor. When Jai and his family moved into their previously owned home in Oklahoma back in 2012, they loved the farmhouse style of the design but wanted to bring the 1976-era home into the current millennium.
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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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Pizza places tend to be some of the most family-friendly restaurants you can find. In the world of design, that often translates to bright, colorful spaces with rugged materials that can handle high traffic. When the owners of the Trattoria Pizzarelli restaurant in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, started planning for a new location, they wanted to create an inviting, family atmosphere but one that offered an upscale industrial look.
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Who knew gooseneck barn lights could be elegant?
Designer Serena Armstrong certainly did! As the creative force behind Farm House Urban, Serena has a keen eye for blending rustic and chic elements to create spaces that are comfortable and inviting but with a touch of elegance. On a recent remodeling job in Glen Ellen, California, Serena was called in to update the exterior of a ranch home nestled in a lovely part of the area’s wine country.
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