LARGE SCALE
Go big or go home! With a bold, statement piece for your light fixture you can really get some visual interest in the room. Play with scale and get a fun look by going with several matching lights down your dining room table or one large fixture to add a focal point to the room. When playing with scale, you can make sure you are not going too over the top by picking something simplistic in design, such as The Rustic.
RING LIGHTS
Ring lights, like The Citadel pictured above, are a great way to add sophisticated drama to any space as well as uniformity to the lighting in the room. The symmetry in this style makes for a timeless piece that will always be on trend.
RUSTIC
If your wondering if the rustic look is still “in” the answer is YES! This is a trend that just won’t quit and a quick search of designer lighting will help you rest assured that you cannot go wrong by going rustic! You can keep to this chic decor by selecting a light with metal finishes and reclaimed elements like seen here in The Double Barrel. This is a surefire way to keep your dining room space in the now!
MINAMIL
If a large statement piece is not your thing, you’re in luck! This year a minimalist style is making a come back. This fresh take on lighting can help a space feel open and airy. Stick to a simple pendant or wall sconce in areas that don’t need a huge amount of illumination or a simple beam light could do the trick in a larger room needing more light. Be sure not to go too small to avoid an incomplete or sterile feel. Edison Bulb lights help the minimalist look still feel very cozy.
Do you have a space that you just can’t quite figure out and could use some guidance? Reach out to us! We can help you come up with the right balance of timeless lighting while still keep you on trend.
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SPIRAL 40w BULB
The spiral bulb is the smallest of the three styles. It’s perfect for areas in need of a little ambiance, giving off the feeling of a small fires glow. A cozy nook in your home or a bedside table light, like The Hangman, is perfectly suited to its warmth.
GLOBE 60w BULB
This light is the roundest and largest of the three styles. It emits a soft, yellow light making it ideal for pretty much any area in your home that needs some added charm. It can also add a slightly retro style to the space making it useful when trying to pull a few different design elements together. Being the largest of the styles, it also works well with wider chandeliers such as The Double Barrel and The Citadel.
SQUIRREL CAGE 60w BULB
The perfect balance is found with the squirrel cage bulb. It isn’t as round as the globe and not as small as the spiral making it fit most fixtures just right. It also emits the most amount of light so areas that require a bit more visibility should be ordered with this bulb, like The Pipeline vanity light. You still get the vintage feel of the other lights, while avoiding a bad make-up job caused by low lighting!
So basically you can’t go wrong; you are putting one of the most universally stylish bulbs in your fixture. As Thomas says, “You can’t be the gansta of home design without an Edison light bulb fixture!” …or something to that affect.
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Ever feel like you're never actually going to like any job you have? Of course, it's only a means to an end, most people don't like their jobs anyway ... at least that's what we tell ourselves to make us feel better about never liking our job! Rewind 6 years ago and my husband and I were no different; we worked and made money...yay us. At the time we had bought our first house together and my hubby (the genius carpenter of the century as he will come to be known) was remodeling from the ground up. As stressful as it was, there was a TON of excitement that came along with it. However, my design strategy looks more like, "Suuuure, that will work, I guess?" after shopping for two hours and deciding I NEED to eat something right now, so the last thing I saw is what I buy. Hubby, on the other hand, has a clear idea of what he wants things to look like as a whole and is VERY good at making sure the small details all come together to make that vision happen. How he has come to this ridiculous talent, I couldn't say, but it was clear about 2 minutes into our renovation that I just needed to hand over the decision making to him and sit back to watch our dream home come together. After several months of the big decisions (what walls to leave standing and which to knock down) we got to the nitty gritty stuff that can really pull together the house and make it our home. Cue the light fixture dilemma of 2014! He was obsessed with getting the right lights for our home picked out and just could not find what he saw in his mind's eye. And when he did find some he was drawn to, no surprises here, it was at least three thousand dollars! After way too many hours on the wide world web, hubby just started sketching, to at least show me what he wanted to see in our dining room space. When I saw his idea on paper I was in love so, brilliant as we are, we went back to searching online for many more hours (the genius part hadn't kicked in yet) and we just kept hoping to find what we wanted for a reasonable price. NO such luck! But now that we knew what we wanted there was no going back. Finally, hubby remembered he is a carpenter by trade and has been for 15 years! So he took to the basement and started working on our finishing touch to the gorgeous space he had already created. It was built, stained, assembled and hung within a couple of days. Our chandelier search was finally over and they all lived happily ever after, the end. Just kidding! Obviously, we had to show our new beautiful baby off to our friends and hosted a few dinner parties to celebrate the completion of our home. Without even mentioning the light, it became the focal point of conversation as soon as someone walked into our dining room. "How cool is that?!" I thought, "I'm not the only one who thinks hubby is the genius carpenter of the century!" This went on for a while before we finally realized that we are not the ONLY ones searching for a really cool chandelier and couldn't find one for under $3K, go figure! We very tentatively decided to try putting our own creation online to see if anyone else loved the refined rustic look as much as we do. MIRACLES OF ALL MIRACLES, YOU DO! We honestly could not believe that so many people related with our struggle and reached out to us to have a custom light made of their own. SO here we are with a job we actually love doing for a people who are in the exact same boat we were in and shocked (lighting pun intended) that we have come this far. Obviously, we want more of a good thing, so what are your struggles in your home design? What space in your home can you just not find that perfect last piece of the puzzle to pull the room together?? Please comment, share and subscribe so we can keep brainstorming, creating and being part of your story on how your house became home!
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