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Handblown Glass Pendant Lighting

Earlier this summer I went to the Rothschild & Bickers studio to learn about glass blowing. I have admired their gorgeous glass pendants for many years and, ever since I read a Donna Leon thriller set in a glass factory in Venice, have been keen to learn more about this ancient art. black kitchen with
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How To Get The Lighting Right: The Bathroom

Welcome to the fourth and final part* of my series on How To Get the Lighting Right in partnership with John Cullen. I do hope you have enjoyed it and found it useful. For new subscribers, who might not have seen earlier posts, we have done the kitchen, the sitting room, the bedroom and finally,
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How To Get The Lighting Right: The Kitchen

The lighting is so often an afterthought - a few lampshades thrown in when the rest of the work is finished and the money has run out. But it is such a key part of a design scheme - so easy to get wrong and so stunning when it's done right, that I collaborated with
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How to Get The Lighting Right in the Bedroom

As part of the August Updates I'm bringing you this one again - some of you will have missed it the first time round and some of you will suddenly find it's more relevant than it was when it came out the first time round. This week is part III in the mini-series How to
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Vintage Bird Cage Light

vintage bird cage night light I just love this light. It's clever, it's funny and I love the way it's just the birds that light up. They key point being that it looks just as good on as off, which is a point that is often overlooked. It's powered by batteries so you can hang
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Plumen Lights: Invest

Plumen LED 002 with drop cap pendant in black photographed by Ian Nolan
Their sculptural twisting forms and unusual shapes have turned the eco bulb from a thing of dreariness to a designer statement, and now Plumen, creators of the first designer eco bulb, have turned to crowdfunding for the next stage of their development - a range of LEDs. They are seeking investment of as little as
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Bathroom Pendant Lights

bathroom pendant light from jim lawrence Wouldn't these be just dreamy in the bathroom? Regular readers (or those who joined more than a few weeks ago) will remember I ran a series on How to Get the Lighting Right which focused on each room in the house. When it came to the bathroom the rules
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Black Wall Light

black kitchen with white floors and my fiddle leaf fig
I don't know how many of you caught up with my series on How to Get the Lighting Right but for those of you who are new to the blog, I wrote a series of posts in collaboration with John Cullen going round my house room by room to see what I had got right (not
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How To Get The Lighting Right: Lighting Art

how to get the lighting right - art work
how to get the lighting right: artwork. Picture light by TM Lighting It's back again - by more popular demand. This series on How To Get The Lighting Right continues today with advice on how to light art. Now, before you get carried away, I'm not assuming you've all got a stockpile of Picassos and
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Brass Disc Pendant Light

brass disc light
brass disc pendant light We have all become very used to the idea of changing the white plastic electric cord on our pendant lights to one that is made from twisted or plain cable. This simple act removes something ugly and replaces it with something that is a proper decorative detail at a stroke. In
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How To Buy Vintage Lighting

concrete house by Airhouse Design with vintage lighting from skinflintdesign.com
Back by popular demand (well my demand at least) the How To Get The Lighting Right series has proved extremely popular so I thought I would extend it with a post on how buy vintage lighting. It's a question that clients often ask me, either because they want one, or they have already bought one
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Brass Shelf and Light

90° wall light by Frama If you follow me on instagram you will know that I spent the weekend in Copenhagen. It was my second visit to this wonderful city - the first was for a business lunch about a month ago - and I was so excited to go back with the husband and
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How To Get The Lighting Right: The Bedroom

This week is part III in the mini-series How to Get the Lighting Right and we're tackling the bedroom. In many ways this is a culmination of what we have already learnt downstairs but, given that we spend a third of our lives either sleeping, or attempting to do so, the lighting is just as
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Feather Light

This is one of those "if I had a boudoir moments" because if I did I would surely have this light in it. Isn't it a fabulous thing? It looks like a party skirt - in fact I'm sure I saw one similar on Net a Porter a few weeks ago. With a light like
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How To Get The Lighting Right: The Sitting Room

Welcome to part II of my mini-series in collaboration with John Cullen Lighting. Last month we spoke about how to get the lighting right in the kitchen and today we are moving into the sitting room.   As you may remember from last month, John Cullen's design director, Sally Storey, came round and spent the morning
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Monochrome Lightbox

Right it's here; December I mean, which, in turn, means we can finally mention the C-word. Normal rules are suspended and everything is allowed to be a little bit shinier than it was yesterday. So I'm starting off with a small confession. I have just ordered this. Yes I have. from hurn and hurn I
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A Lightbulb Moment

lightbulb and stand from vinegar and brown paper Now as I may have mentioned (once or twice) I'm not usually one for writing on things. All that epigram/motif/inspirational wotsit on every tea towel, mug and poster in the land. But, BUT, firstly I reserve the right to break my own rules as soon as I
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Industrial Lighting

So, the lighting in the loft. As you may remember this project was finished in the summer and I have published images of it previously (industrial style loft conversion). It was basically all there but just needed a few extra touches to finish it off. Knowing me that day will never actually come - the
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Industrial Scissor Light

scissor light from oliveandthefox Now it may just be because a friend asked me where she could find a scissor light for her kitchen refurb but suddenly everywhere I look I'm seeing these rather brilliant articulated wall lights. And, gnashing of teeth, I'm wishing I had them in my kitchen too. Mind you, we are
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Pendant Light with Leather Strap

Lighting treats today people. Just look at this gorgeous metal pendant light with its thick leather strap. It makes me slightly breathless just to look at it. I wish, wish wish I had a high enough ceiling to put this in my kitchen. I'm wondering if I can just do away with the extractor fan
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