Lighting & Fans

Blue and White Porcelain Bowl Pendants with a Piecrust Edge
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Blue and White Porcelain Bowl Pendants with a Piecrust Edge

These bowl pendants come in two variations with a piecrust edge and a wavy edge.   They look just like country style bowls turned into a pendant. They are really adorable. The pendants are hardwired. They look like vintage lighting but they work with our standard normal electricity. They are both almost 10″ wide. They come…

Madcap Cottage by Port 68 Oh, Pagoda Chandelier
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Madcap Cottage by Port 68 Oh, Pagoda Chandelier

This chandelier showed up in my Pinterest feed. The link didn’t go anywhere, but after some googling and clicking around I found out is the the Oh, Pagoda Chandelier from Madcap Cottage by Port 68. The center column is a porcelain pagoda. The metal has a gold painted finish. The tassels are polystone resin and…

Picture Lighting: The Basics

Picture Lighting: The Basics

Picture lights are ideal to highlight artwork or other special objects. It is functional and decorative. Traditional Picture Lighting Traditional picture lighting highlights a single picture. Used discerningly, they can provide intimate lighting to a room. A traditional picture light is mounted on the frame or above the artwork on the wall. A picture light…

Picture Lighting: Beyond the Basics
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Picture Lighting: Beyond the Basics

Track lighting, monorail lighting, ceiling and wall mounted spotlights and recessed lighting are all good options for picture lighting. STAS Powered Picture Rail hangs artwork and powers picture lights. Track Lighting or Monorail Lighting Track lighting and monorail systems are great if you want to light more than one picture. They have a clean, minimalist…

Octopus Lighting
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Octopus Lighting

I was trying to find an octopus chandelier. I saw one, but I could not find it for sale anywhere. But, I found many octopus wall sconces and octopus table lamps in two styles and four variations. There are a lot of octopus wall sconces available, but they all seem to be these three variations….

Get Rid of Dimmer Buzz and Hum
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Get Rid of Dimmer Buzz and Hum

Do you have a buzz or hum? Here’s how to track it down and get rid of it. I want control over my light levels and I love dimmers. I have them all over the house. But one problem with dimmers can be buzz. Even if the buzz doesn’t sound like it comes from the…

Antler Chandeliers
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Antler Chandeliers

I overheard a couple in a lighting store super offended about an antler chandelier. It wasn’t even natural antler, it was made from cast resin. They thought that deer had died to make the chandelier.* They compared it to killing elephants for the ivory. No, deer do not die to make chandeliers. Deer shed their…

Modern Wood Lighting from Dezaart’s Design Workshop

Modern Wood Lighting from Dezaart’s Design Workshop

Did you know that you can buy handmade lighting from all over the world on Amazon? I just found DEZAART handmade wood lighting. It is really cool natural wood that looks like the Modern style lighting from the Modernage Furniture store in Oakland Park Florida. Dezaart’s Design Workshop Mid Century Modern Wood Lighting on Amazon…

Brighten the Night with Cafe Lights and String Lights

Brighten the Night with Cafe Lights and String Lights

We just got some Adirondack chairs and a fire pit to enjoy in back of our new house. Nothing as ambitious as this outdoor fireplace, but I want to do something a little more than the chairs on the grass we have now. This time of year it stays light really late, but when it…

Lighting with Vintage Telegraph and Telephone Glass Insulators
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Lighting with Vintage Telegraph and Telephone Glass Insulators

Repurposed old glass insulators are all over Etsy. People turn them into candle holders and book ends. I have about a dozen of them that I put over inexpensive solar lights. They mostly block both the light and the solar panel, but I don’t care. A number of lighting manufacturers make lighting collections that use…