![]() ![]() EntrywayĬreate airiness and open up spaces with the direct lighting of a pendant lamp. Options range from a pendant lamp that looks like a woven vase with triangular patterns to one with diamond patterns that widens to a wicker band in the middle. These pendant lamps emit a soft warm glow as light casts in a wide arc below while also filtering through the bamboo to cast playful designs on the wall. Wow your family at holiday gatherings or friends at a dinner party with chandeliers made of woven bamboo that provides a rustic and stylishly artful expression. ![]() Here’s where you may want to go with a showstopper. As with any room, three pendant lights over a larger island strike a better balance than two placed at either end. ![]() Line up multiple pendant lamps over bigger kitchen islands or prep stations for more illumination and a greater sense of grandeur. If you want an industrial look, the metal shade recalls classic street or work lamps with an elegant edge while directing light in a wide swath directly below to your kitchen counter or kitchen table. For maximum direct light to any kitchen counter, you can choose a pendant lamp with a softly shaped beige metal shade topped with a decorative detail in solid tan birch than can complement other modern design elements in the kitchen. Use hanging lights to illuminate your knife work and all other meal prep at your kitchen island. Let pendant lighting accentuate your style in any roomĬhoose styles of pendant lights for specific settings based on their look and how they distribute light. Pendant lights are stylish additions to any room, particularly kitchen and dining rooms, that pour down from the ceiling like jewelry to provide direct lighting, general lighting or a combination of both as some hanging lights emit a warming glow through openings in their woven patterns or holes of their hand-knitted lamp shades. ![]() Bronzeville Wide Abstract Chandelier $485ĩ.Bring warmth to your home with pendant lighting Here are a few of my favorite bubble lights that I’m deciding between for Faye’s room! Which is your favorite?:ĥ. Sometimes even I forget–oh yeah, we’re going for MODERN cottage, not just cottage. I’ve had a lot of you request more behind the scenes with design decisions, so I thought it would be important to share how I make these kinds of decisions but also why. Two of my favorite examples are this living room from Stoffer Home:Īnd this countryside sitting room from Chango & Co: Right now, I’m leaning toward a bubble chandelier! It feels fun and quirky and playful and modern but will also tie into the spindles on her bed. While her room was torn apart, we had an electrician add a box right above her bed in the vaulted portion of her room, which strangely didn’t have any lights previously. I’d love to get some curtains with a small pattern on it and then–boom! A fun, modern fixture hanging from the ceiling. We went all in on a trad bed and charming bedding (more about that here). The epiphany came just in time for me to order a light for Faye’s room. Almost every room I’m drawn to lately has vintage and wallpaper and traditional and an uber modern light of sorts somewhere. But fortunately, no room is ever marked with a “done” stamp. My favorite place to bring in modern touches? Lighting! There’s nothing like an unexpectedly modern light in a traditional setting that bends all the rules and makes you do a double take. I’ve been going hard on the traditional, cottage-y notes but as our bathroom comes together (with lots of traditional elements but super modern faucets), I’m reminded DON’T FORGET THE MODERN everywhere else too!!! Because, oops, in some places I haaavveee. I thought about where we’re headed and a few places where we need to pivot or push it further! With the exterior nearly completed (we have a bunch of fun updates for you there this week!), the “modern” part of our modern cottage is really taking shape out there which made me think– where are we representing the modern aesthetic inside?! I thought about how far we’ve come over the last year or so in this house. Over the last week, I’ve been a little under the weather (negative Covid test, no worries there!) and I took some time to rest which translated into some time to think. ![]()
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