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Track Lighting – Lots of Light for Any Style Kitchen
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Track Lighting – Lots of Light for Any Style Kitchen

Are you trying to get a lot of light where you want it in your kitchen? One option is track lighting. Just replace whatever light is already there with track. You can aim the light wherever you want. You can even add more light. You don’t want to overload the circuit. It’s not just annoying…

Use a Lantern Over a Table
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Use a Lantern Over a Table

House Beautiful October 2017 Article The Experts: Instant Room quotes Richard Keith Langham, author of About Decorating on his design for a “mountaintop spot for fall fetes.” “A copper lantern illuminates an octagonal wooden table.” The Experts: A Cozier Dining Room Richard Keith Langham House Beautiful October 2017 A lantern can make an ideal statement…

Laura Ashley Summer Palace
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Laura Ashley Summer Palace

If you love Chinoiserie and blue and white, you are going to love the Laura Ashley Summer Palace Collection. It is a beautiful interpretation of Chinese artistic traditions realized in blue and white. The print has birds and flowers in royal blue against a white background. The collection includes window treatments, bedding and coordinating fabric…

French Country Style – The Salle, a Historic Open Floor Plan
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French Country Style – The Salle, a Historic Open Floor Plan

French Country style is warm, comfortable and easy to live with. And, surprisingly, it works great in an open floor plan. “The one room that these homes were sure to have was the salle, which served as a sort of kitchen-cum-living room. All the activities of a household – from cooking and eating to gathering…

Tech Lighting Kable for Great Kitchen Lighting
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Tech Lighting Kable for Great Kitchen Lighting

Tech Lighting Kable is a great way to light any room. The new Tech Lighting Catalog has photos of kitchens with great looking cable lighting. This kitchen has a cable with K-Pivot lights strung wall to wall. This kitchen has K-Bye Bye heads and Kiev pendants suspended from cable. The cable attachment is into the…

Perfect Measurements – Universal Rules for a Solid Floor Plan
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Perfect Measurements – Universal Rules for a Solid Floor Plan

House Beautiful June 2017 regular article Master Class is by Vern Yip. Master Class Vern Yip On Perfect Measurements “I used to be a premed student and was deep in that world of science and math,” says the Atlanta designer. “I’m still equally left- and right-brained. People often tell me they feel design paralysis, thinking…

Coordinate Your Metal Finishes
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Coordinate Your Metal Finishes

From traditional to eclectic, no matter what style you choose, coordinating your metal finishes can make all the difference in pulling a look together. There are more choices than ever in metal finishes. Brass, bronze, chrome, nickel and stainless in bright polished or matte brushed finish, each sets its own style. Then there are custom…

How to Easily Install a Ceiling Medallion
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How to Easily Install a Ceiling Medallion

I love the look of traditional plasterwork and millwork. Now, you can get the look of fragile plaster in molded polyurethane – lightweight, easy to install and surprisingly inexpensive! You can install a ceiling medallion as an architectural focal point to your dining room, entry, bedroom, even over a bath! You really can get a…