Niche Modern Oculo Pendant
Flickr finds: Pretty pendants
Recessed Lighting 101
When helping customers design spaces in newly constructed homes, or places undergoing a renovation, we often get questions about lighting plans – especially recessed lighting plans. We stumbled across a great blog post that offers some recessed lighting basics. Click here to read the post in its entirety, but we’ve included a few highlights below…
The Basics
- Recessed lighting is one of the most versatile ways to light a room
- Recessed lighting is available in a number of sizes and lamp combinations
- Recess lighting is available in compact fluorescent, which means significant energy savings
- A good recess lighting plan will provide general lighting in living rooms, family rooms, bedrooms and hallways, task lighting in the kitchen, and accent lighting for artwork
Knock on wood!
Here’s a round up of some our favorite wood veneer light fixtures…
True Blue
Bored with your room…
…change your lampshades! This great tip is courtesy of Jonathan Legate in his interview with Modern Bird Studios. It’s super quick and fairly inexpensive to make this easy update to any room. Great idea Jonathan!
Plum crazy!
Gorgeous plum colored hand-blown glass pendants from Niche Modern…
It’s not easy being green…
Black magic…
Bored with your room…
…change your light fixtures. Have you had the same pendant hanging in your entry or above your dining table for years? Not so fond of the table lamp on your bedside table? Try something new! Choose a fixture that has a printed silk shade, an interesting base finish like chrome or is made of an interesting material to change things up a bit.
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