Apartment Therapy: lighting

Working With A Shade-y Home

[One of our two windows that didn't really see the light] When we lived in New York a few years ago, we thought we had found the perfect studio with a full kitchen, a dishwasher, great layout, an expo...

Adjustable Lighting from Architects and Heroes!
Austin

We love finding gorgeous home decor that's good-looking and functional, and we've found both with this company creating lighting with flexible, handy and adjustable functions for a plethora of home l...

8 Stylish and Affordable Cutout Pendant Lights!

We're not sure what it is, but we can't get enough of the delicate and feminine feel of doilies, lace and other see-through patterned things. We gathered some fun cutout pendant lights in case you ca...

Enlighten: Artist Lamp Show Benefitting the Arts

Here's a preview of the 85 limited edition artist designs that will be offered for sale at the Helms Bakery Building in Culver City next month. A portion of all sales will benefit Inner-City Arts, a...

Round Up:11 Lamps Under $75

Last week we rounded up sofas. This week we're looking at lamps. We wanted to find ones that are reasonably priced enough that you might even be able to afford 2, for a console behind your sofa or ...

The Hangelier 2.1 Clothes Hanger Lampshade

Leah over at our D.C. site cited Organelle's repurposed clothes hanger light amongst a few other Uniquely Re-Purposed Lighting Fixtures. It seems they've updated and upgraded the design from plastic t...

DIY Paper Clip Chandelier Kits

You might remember seeing a pendant chandelier fashioned out of the most humble of stationery, the paper clip, awhile ago here on Apartment Therapy. If you've always fancied having something similar ...

How To: Make a DIY Lucite Disc Chandelier

Apartment Therapy reader Jill Keto wrote in to share her high-end chandelier DIY designer imposters project: I recently recycled and revamped a $3.99 thrift shop chandelier into one that looks like a ...

Volker Haug Lighting
Melbourne

We’ve had lighting on the brain for the past week. While searching for the perfect lamp this week, we stumbled across the work of Volker Haug. We had seen his work briefly at a design show last year...

Affordable Accent: Paper Lanterns

Last week we talked about 10 good ideas for renters to really feel at home and one of the tips was to change out your lighting. There are some great design ideas out there. An easy and affordable opti...

The Influence of Light On Your Home's Life

Memorial Day, early this year, marks the beginning of summer for us. And, with the days getting longer and it staying light out later, we have been finding that the rhythm of our life changes. It fe...

C Mesh: Scott Strickstein's Textural Lamps
ICFF 2009

As Gregory mentioned the other day, ICFF was all about texture. Even objects that did not normally beg to be touched (wallpaper, upholstery, dishes) seemed to have something unusually tactile about t...

Look! Silver Lake Schindler Apartment Mantlepiece Light Feature

AT reader and nearby Silver Lake resident Eric sent us this unique light feature in his Rudolph Schindler-designed apartment that might inspire some of you with fireplaces you never use to convert the...

Great Source for Cheap Lampshades

If you're anything like me, you've got lots of great lamps that you've picked up at garage sales, via craigslist or out flea-marketing. They're great shapes, great colors and unlike anything you can ...

Marc Venot Roller Shades Light

Our apartment is a light-filled studio whose view and sunshine make it easy to stay indoors even on the best of days. BUT, there are some occasions for the sake of heat, privacy or the desire to strik...

Light Inspirations: Making a Statement with the Light Combinations
From Sköna Hem

A collection of various crystal chandeliers over a dining room table with faux-fur covered chairs looks like pure winter fantasy.Trying to figure out how to pair lamps together? There's a lot more ou...

DIY Inspiration: The Coffee Light

Good ideas often pop up simultaneously in different places, thought up separately by different people (think Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace...though hardly anyone remember poor Alfred). We r...

Miformi Hanging Lamp

If you've ever gotten tired of the lampshades in your home, check out this pretty cool pendant lamp called the Miformi. Designed by Ramin Razani, this polypropylene lamp can be transformed into twent...

Look! Recessed Floor Lighting

Usually when someone says, "I'm installing recessed lights in my house," they're usually referring to the ceiling. However, there's a growing trend of installing small lights in the floor. If you're...

Fluorescent Fixer Lighting Cover Warms Up CFL Bulb Light

We just mentioned yesterday about how horribly jarring LED sourced lighting can be compared to warm incandescents, one of the major reasons cited why some people still haven't moved to more energy eff...

Our Affordable Stairway Security Lighting Solution

As the days have become shorter and darker during the winter, the issue of security lighting around our apartment building has arisen as a priority again. In the past we had tried using a city-provide...

Look! Wine Gift Box Transforms Into Lamp

Similar to the reuse of packaging we posted just a short while ago, Spanish waste management and consulting firm, Grupo Hera, sent out these bottles of cava as gifts (I'm a teetotaler, so I had to loo...

Look! Craighton Berman's Coil Lamp

Brilliant...simply hit-your-forehead brilliant idea of using something as common and ignored as the electrical cord as both the power source and the materials which shapes the lamp (looks like we have...

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...

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