Archive for October, 2010

Beautiful Chandeliers Centerpieces for Weddings or Fine Dining at Home

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Jake has worked in residential lighting design for 12 years.


Posts: 24

Chandeliers centerpieces may be used to create an intimate lighting scheme in even a large banquet hall. Though they are most popularly used for formal weddings, they may also be added to the home table for special occasions like holidays or anniversaries. These centerpieces can hold multiple candles or lights and add all the elegance [...]

Antique Glass Lamps: Can You Say Whale Oil?

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Jake has worked in residential lighting design for 12 years.


Posts: 24

With electricity so prevalent in our environment, we forget the difficulties of lighting the dark of times past. Even if only the home is considered, before electricity and natural gas was run to the home and through the walls, the light in each room came from an antique glass lamp filled with kerosene or whale [...]

Have You Ever Considered a Chandelier for Your Home?

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Murphy Weaver is a professional dilettante, an expert on knowing just enough. Whatever little bits of information he has picked up along the way in life, he is happy to share them.


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Choosing the right interior lighting fixture to best suit your needs is crucial to designing your ideal living space. Many still opt for track lighting, which is easy to install, and rather simple to maintain. Others opt for some other forms of hanging lights, while also using stand-up models that fit neatly in the most [...]

Wall Sconce Lighting for Home

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Jake has worked in residential lighting design for 12 years.


Posts: 24

Looking for lighting ideas for your home? More to the point, are you considering what type of sconces will look and work best for your indoor or outdoor lighting needs? Well, this article will address some of the more general points to think about in regards to this type of lighting. You’ll probably notice that [...]