Apartment Therapy: lighting

Inspiration: Packaging As Lightshade

The cool thing (pardon the pun) about CFLand fluorescent bulbs are their relative lower operating temperature. You can touch a CFL/bulbs without endangering yourself a burn, and the bulbs operate at a...

Microcosmo Table Lamp: One Part Lamp, One Part Terrarium

Formia's Microcosmo Table Lamp combines two of our decorative accessories in one product: lighting and terrariums. The side openings provide ample ventilation while an integrated top light bulb shines...

Inspiration: Alternative Uses For Christmas Lights

How To: Get Out of The Christmas Tree RutAs part of our family tradition growing up, we'd always string lights around the Christmas tree the first weekend after Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, we don't ...

Look! DIY High End Chandelier Using IKEA Bulbs

Ed Winston took his aspirational dreams of owning a $7020 Ilde Max chandelier (previously $11,700) and rerouted some energy into creating his own affordable DIY version using IKEA Hemma lights and som...

Hettich International's "Lite Inside" LED Closet Rails

We're sure you could DIY something like this using some string LED lights and a hollowed out metal or wood rod, but when it comes to electrical in the closet, we lean toward manufactured and UL tested...

Alone Illuminating Coat Hook

Such a simple, but useful idea for the entryway: coat hook that is also a wall mounted LED light! Daniele Trebbi's Alone light is one of those products that get our mind racing in the hopes of finding...

West Elm's Wall-Mounted Pendant Lamp

We recently spied this new item over at West Elm - the wall-mounted pendant lamp. We posed a question to you all a few weeks ago about options for the narrow space next to our couch and think this lig...

Inspiration: Figueroa Hotel
Los Angeles

On Saturday we attended our friend's wedding at the Hotel Figueroa in Downtown, Los Angeles. We had stopped by "The Fig" as locals call it, years ago for drinks and remembered it having quite the Cas...

Look: Yellow Goat Designs Chandeliers
Queensland

We have a soft spot for a good chandelier. While we can really only squeeze 1 in the house that we’re currently living in, for our next house we hope to have many more. Yellow Goat Design have recen...

9 Lighting Ideas From A + R

We recently popped into A + R on Abbott Kinney, a very cool store that offers design that charms, functions and inspires. We loved seeing all of the lighting design and accessories. Full of whimsy, st...

Good Questions: Where Can I Get This Slide Display?

"I'm a new reader who has been going back through your house tour archives, and one my favorite spaces is Glen's Living Large In a Small Space. I adore his photography display and want to showcase som...

Look! One Of A Kind Lampshade

When designer Dan Yeffet used his own fingerprint to create the ‘Detail’ light– he created something that no one else could have. Using something as unique as a fingerprint almost feels a bit ri...

Good Questions: How Is Pottery Barn's Sectional Architect Floor Lamp?
Los Angeles

[Pottery Barn's Sectional Architect Lamp as seen in their catalog.] ATLA reader, Alexis3, wrote us the other day about overhead lighting in her apartment. She specifically was asking about Pottery Ba...

Tart (TableArt)

Tart is a lovely store. We love when people specialize, and Tart does just that by limiting itself to the tabletop (and the lighting above the table). The store is filled with beautiful (and pricey...

Look! X Bar's Lamps

We've blogged many times about how hotels and restaurants inspire us so when we go out, we're always looking to see what's new, inspiring or just plain unusual. Recently, we slipped into the X-Bar at...

Round Up: Grown-up Lighting from Pottery Barn Kids

Pottery Barn Kids has some surprisingly affordable and sophisticated lighting tucked in between the primary colored bases and polka-dotted shades. High tech and modern, they can go head to head with ...

Earthmate Recessed and Candle CFL Bulbs

I've got this funny quirk: whenever I see a blown out light bulb, I'm driven by a near obsessive desire to replace it with a new bulb...even when I'm at someone else's home. It works out in the end: I...

Wood-Inspired Lighting

Honey Bamboo Wood Lamp via HD Buttercup...

Flickr Finds: Knitted Lampshade

A few days ago, Adrienne, one of our Austin bloggers, made us chuckle with a lamppost she'd seen that had been guerilla knitted. Taking that concept inside, Linda N. , a Flickr member's replaced the ...

Moonshine Lamps: Customize Your Lampshades

A few weeks ago, when we toured the Venice Eco Beach Cottages during the Kelly LaPlante Book Signing, we fell in love with this bedroom, especially the wallpaper, the adjustable fan and the bright lam...

Bamboo Solar Garden Light

The last month or so we've been looking all over online for solar lighting solutions to add to our front garden. Unfortunately, most of the lights we've seen don't exactly match what we're looking for...

Kyouei Design Bulb Lantern

We've posted about paper lanterns several times, as they're not only beautiful and affordable, but also very adaptable for almost any decorative style. Yet these bulb lanterns from Kyouei Design stand...

Look! Linen Hanging Lamp

In the guise of helping out a friend, we've been looking at a lot of lighting lately, especially hanging lamps. Surfing around, looking for something a little unusual and slightly handmade looking, w...

West Elm Globe Pendant Lamps

A few months ago when we were in the West Elm Store on the Third Street Promenade, we noticed a bunch of great pendant lamps over the cash register. Of course, we whipped out our camera and started a...

Perch's Franny and Zooey Pendant Lights

When we posted about Pac-Man wall art a few weeks ago, we received a lot of questions about the ceiling lamp in the photo. Unfortunately, it was a flea market find in the Netherlands, but maybe these ...

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