You can invite the guests, prepare the dinner, travel out of town to find the right drinks. You can dress the table with napkins, cutlery holders and a crockery set to impress. Yet a dining table setting just isn’t the same without a light at its centre. The ancients used candelabras; today, we use pendant . . .
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30 Industrial Style Lighting Fixtures To Help You Achieve Victorian Finesse
When you think of Victoriana, your minds fills with frills. White balconies, brick laced with ivy and china teapots set a dainty, wealthy scene. These visions forget the real Victorian times – the times that inspired steampunk; the times that saw cobblers and blacksmiths; the times that saw the invention of the steam train. These . . .
Homes With Inspiring Wall Treatments And Designer Lighting
An artful home doesn’t require many standalone decorations – in this post, four incredible interiors demonstrate that everyday necessities can serve as beautiful accents with the ability to stand on their own. Turning the utilitarian “must-haves” into attractive decor is a convenient way to maintain a more minimalist appeal without sacrificing character or opportunities for . . .
50 Unique Kitchen Pendant Lights You Can Buy Right Now
Kitchen lighting requires the careful consideration of two purposes. Ideally, it should illuminate the work surfaces where you conduct most of your preparation, and it should provide welcoming ambiance during dinner or evening hours. Pendants fill a special role in the kitchen, in addition to the two requirements mentioned previously – kitchen pendants are the . . .
25 Stunning Bedroom Lighting Ideas
Lighting is art. Decorators balance a wide range of needs to achieve a practical and beautiful bedroom lighting arrangement, every factor touching multiple points. Consider placement – a decision influenced by lifestyle choices like whether the resident loves physical books or prefers videos from a bright screen, but the photo tour below also shows its . . .
5 Living Rooms With Signature Lighting Styles
Lighting plays an important but hard-to-define role within the home. It’s not just a tool to illuminate the home on dark days, yet it shouldn’t serve as a purely decorative piece of furniture either. A designer would certainly never want to start chasing stylish lighting ideas without thinking about the quality and intensity of the . . .
50 Uniquely Beautiful Designer Table Lamps You Can Buy Right Now
The perfect lighting can make a huge difference in any room. Overhead fluorescents can easily send you into a self-confidence tailspin while the perfect soft bulb can make you feel like a million buck. The 50 lamps featured in this post range from the classic to the whimsical, from industrial to minimalist and from those . . .
A Set of Extraordinary Lights
Although lighting is always an essential part of interior design, some designers do little more than include soft track lighting and perhaps a chandelier in the dining area. The lights in this post are so much more than practical. They provide light while also bringing creativity, art, and even humor into any room where they . . .
Stylish Desk Lamps
Nothing sets off smart work areas like ultra stylish desk lamps, and choosing an office piece that is both useful and attractive deserves some careful consideration. Here are some of our favorites to get you started: The Tolomeo Desk Lamp is a modern icon of Italian design, created by Michele De Lucchi and Giancarlo Fassina . . .
Remarkably Artistic Lighting Designs
Lighting probably plays the most important role in good design practice. Once you know what type of lighting you need, be it task, ambient and/or accent lighting, you can use it to good effect to change the mood of a room. Here are some fancy lights that push the very concept of what lights can . . .
Designer Lighting – Set 3
We had featured two sets of amazing lighting options (Set 1, Set 2) before at Home-Designing , but if you are hungry for more, this post is for you. Branch Light by Michail Komarov allows you to shape and grow your own lighting by fitting togethor a multitude of straight and curved pieces so that . . .
Supercool Lights – Set 2
We thought we would thrill you again with a new set of super cool lighting. If you have missed Set 1, you can take a look at it here: Amazing Lights Set 1 The Hanged Lamp by Enpieza The Line King Lamp by Aykuterol Light Drop by Rafael Morgan Believe in Aliens? Check out the . . .