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Dreamy New Lighting Collaboration



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I have spent the last three months scouring the corridors of the internet in searching of great lighting. With deadlines looming I have bought some but how I wish I had known about this collaboration between Houseof and the interior designer Em Gurner, of Folds Inside, because it would have been worth waiting for. It
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Monday Inspiration: Light, Bright and Dusty



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beautiful old terracotta floor in the home of @the_textured_room
We have reached peak dust. By which I mean that point in the renovation where the dust keeps coming and the will to remove it has been completely lost. The dust is the thing everyone forgets about. It's the thing that is literally swept out of your mind over time so when people grimace as
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A Very British Lighting Brand



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Original btc Drop 3
It's one thing to read about a brand on their website but another to visit their factory and really get a feel for what goes into the products. It's well over a year since I teamed up with Original BTC and, as their new collection drops, I was finally able to travel to the Potteries
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10 Feature Lights for Under £150



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whitney cluster pendant from made.com
You ask and I shall (attempt to) deliver. Herewith, as requested, ten of the best affordable feature lights. Now affordable is one of those weasel words that means different things to different people. For some it will mean the cheapest, for others the one that suits their style so well that they will pay extra
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Outdoor Lights by Davey Lighting



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Finally, after 10 years of living in this house we have sorted out the outside lighting. At the start of the year I agreed to work with Original BTC for 12 months and this post for my Wednesday Ad break is part of that collaboration. Original BTC is a British company that also owns Davey
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Lockdown Lighting Tips and Decorating Ideas



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swachbox by sophie robinson
The remote recording of the podcast continues and this week Sophie and I repaired to our respective duvet tents for this episode of The Great Indoors in which we discuss ideas for lockdown decorating and I interview Sally Storey, the design director of John Cullen Lighting, on "decorating with light" as well as rounding up
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Original BTC Lighting Celebrates 30 Years



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hector 30 anniversary lamp by original btc in the home of madaboutthehouse.com
For this week's Wednesday Ad break I have teamed up with Original BTC as part of a long term collaboration and this is the first of four posts I shall be writing about them. We start with their 30th anniversary and the launch of the Hector 30 lamp which has been updated with a shiny
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Printable Download: A Lighting Checklist



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green table lamp by pooky lighting
I haven't ever done this before so I thought I would try it today as something different. You can copy and print it and keep it somewhere useful. Let me know what you think because I can do others.    
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10 of the best Wall Lights



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hand wall lights by mucknbrass £70
As promised last week, today we're going to look at wall lights, which are perfect for those who are low of ceiling or short of space for table lamps. Wall lamps have had a bad rap in recent years as they tend to be associated with twee country cottages, and were often either wrought iron
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10 Beautiful Rooms: The Light Side



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pale walls and copper cupboards by Em Gurner via made.com
Now I'm not saying that the fashion for dark interiors is over. But I am going to say that its dominance is perhaps beginning to wane. That it's having to move over to make room for its lighter cousin. Suddenly I feel like I'm seeing lots of light walls and warm colours and it looks
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Is Your Pendant Light Fit For Purpose?



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sphere pendant light from westelm
This is a post about how to get pendant lighting right. It was first published back in January but it's one of those house decorating issues that affects so many of us and yet so many of us do nothing about it. Pendant lights can be very beautiful and very useful when they are in
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Lighting Trends 2018



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Over the last three weeks I have run pieces on the main trends that emerged from Milan Design Week when it came to sitting rooms, kitchens and bathrooms. And that, I thought, was that. And then lighting experts John Cullen contacted me with some information they had put together on lighting trends for this year
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Velux Launches Virtual Reality Daylight App



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you get twice as much light from a sloping window as a vertical
Every now and then someone comes up with something which is so deceptively simple and yet so brilliant that you wonder how we managed without it. Now today's "thing" isn't quite Google or sliced bread in its magnitude, but it's pretty damn clever  and, I think, may well become one of those things that anyone
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Outdoor Floor Light



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outdoor floor light by madaboutthehouse.com
outdoor floor light image by madaboutthehouse.com I have wanted an outdoor floor light for years. It fits with my dream of the outdoor sitting room. Taking the inside outside as it were. This involves a sofa, which has been fantastically hard to find,  I did eventually track one down and will be writing about soon but if
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Woven Light Shades



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Pendant lights in a room, said someone once ( I think it might have been Michelle Ogundehin, the editor of Elle Decoration) are like earrings on an outfit. They can be a subtle barely there touch or they can make a big statement. This season big earrings are the thing and so I bring you
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Grape Pendant Light



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I am indebted to Jenny of Seasons in Colour for today's post as she tweeted a link to this Etsy seller yesterday morning. As those of you who follow me on instagram will know there was a photographer in The Mad House all day yesterday shooting in preparation for the launch of my capsule furniture collection
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Palm Tree Floor Light



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palm tree light from rockett st george
We met in July. For me it was love at first sight. I didn't even care about the price tag. I had to have it. I photographed it and instagrammed it and stared at it. But it was out of stock. September they said. Wait until September. I told my husband that I had fallen
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Collect Lighting by Ferm Living



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It's possible we have all become very spoilt these days. One of the things the internet has done is make it easier for small designer makers to get their stuff out in front of potential clients. This is, of course, utterly brilliant for both them and us. This has led, in turn, to many manufacturers,
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