Apartment Therapy: lighting

Ideaco Sensor Tray Lamp

One part lamp, one part landing strip, the Sensor Tray Lamp is made for those of us who need a place to keep their glasses, wallets and/or cellphone in one easy to remember place. Just touch the ABS r...

Look! Nimbus Hanging Lamp

We were researching energy efficient lighting when we took a bit of a detour and found these attractive hanging lamps made with parchment or wood veneer shades at Eco-Lights.com. We're not sure that t...

Flickr Finds: Daxiang Stef’s Light Switchplates

Yesterday, we blogged decoupage. It’s a technique that doesn’t have to be confined to furniture. In fact, an easy way to try out this project is by transforming a detail that’s often overlooke...

Flaska Floor and Table Lamp

Anthony over at Unplggd sent us the link to this unique floor lamp that takes the recognizable shape of the bottle and reimagines it as a unique floor lamp. We like the scale and smoked top version of...

Jax Hurricane Lamps from Crate and Barrel

We found ourselves at a spontaneous Kentucky Derby party this weekend that lasted through the evening. It's a common occurence in the Southwest, especially as the days warm up and the nights are balm...

Innermost 5-in-1 Shade Lamp

Wow, it's not often you find affordable modern lighting outside of IKEA, CB2 and occasionally Target. But these flatpack polypropylene shades come seven pieces that can be customized to make one large...

Liseuse Lamp

Ever wanted a bedside light you could just put away when not in use? Mélanie Vandenhecke and Hugo Cociani's Liseuse lamp replaces an on/off switch with the closing and opening action of a drawer, tur...

Eero Aarnio Swan Lamp

We've always been drawn to objects inspired by natural forms; soft curvalinear lines that mimic an organic shape are naturally pleasing to the eye and usually sidestep the coming and goings of trends ...

Battery Operated Hanging Lanterns

It promises to be warm this weekend and Laure's post on lanterns reignited our thoughts of using them to light an outdoor party. Since we don't have any electrical outlets available to us outside (an...

Light Emitting Wallpaper by Jonas Samson

We've blogged our love of wallpaper many times. What we don't usually share with you is our dislike of the dark. We're just not a fan. So, we use a night light. What we'd love is something a littl...

Inspiration: Laure's Blue Lamp

Surfing through the archives of some of our House Tours, we noticed, while checking out our own Laure's tour of her old place, how many people had commented on her blue lamp. Well now a similar versi...

Best 6 Modern Inflatable Furnishings

When we think of inflatable furniture, we think of some of our fraternity neighbors back in college who'd lounge about in their duplex backyard ontop of Corona beer branded blow-up seating. Good times...

Outdoor Lighting Idea

One of the great parts about summer is that if you have any garden or balcony at all, your living space can expand outside into the warm nights. We love the ambiance created by all these hanging red ...

Lack Clamp Bookcase Lighting from Ikea

Raise your hand if you have a Lack shelf in your home. We thought so. Simple design that fits in anywhere, it's the basic white shirt of decorating. We think that these bookcase lights are destined...

Pendant Lights: Task Lighting

Since this week in The Cure we're talking about lighting, we thought we'd round up some of our favorite utilitarian style pendant lights. These lights are great for areas that you need a little bit o...

A Note on Lighting

If only it was always daytimeConsider the scene: my apartment nearly empty and all boxed up. Only the overhead ceiling fixture is lighting the room instead of the 4 or so lamps I usually have. My de...

Look! 70's Vintage Wallpaper Lampshades

Of all the decades, we've never been particularly fond of 1970's decor. Perhaps it's flashbacks of our own early childhood, filled with suburban memories of dirty mustards and pond scum greens, dark w...

Grono Uplights at Ikea for a Party

Have you thought about the lighting for your party? With an eye towards our own housewarming in two weeks, we'd been looking for can lights, also known as uplights, for a while. We want to uplight t...

6 Chandeliers from GreatChandeliers.com

This week, lighting is on the minds of our Spring Curees. Good lighting can literally brighten up a room. In our small dining room, our chandelier draws all the attention. Black crystal, it provide...

Lamps Inspired by Vintage Film and Photo Equipment
LA Times 4.10.08

Yesterday's LA Times Home & Garden section also included an interesting round up of the current design trend of lighting that takes it's cues from old Hollywood stage equipment. Check out a few after ...

Habitat's Akiko Pendant Chandelier

Like a giant branch of berries, this organically shaped deviation from the traditional chandelier illustrates minimal doesn't have to be cold......

Paper Maché Lamps at Stray Dog Designs

It's been a long time since we played with paper maché, and even then all I got out of it was a sticky gooey mess that resulted in an odd balloon shaped... thing? That being said, I can totally appre...

Look! DIY Framed Sconces

Anthony, our blogger-to-be (he's on his probationa; trial period) is not only doing a banging job writing for us on Unplggd, he also took the time to shoot us over this keen DIY framed sconce project ...

How To: Replace Ugly Rental Ceiling Shades

A common apartment renter's dilemma is right above our heads: ugly ceiling light shades that seemed to have been passed out to every landlord in all of greater Los Angeles. Every darn rental I've move...

Bestlight Wall Light by Robert Dudley Best

Awhile back, we got a question from AT reader Mike who had recently stayed at the Custom Hotel near LAX. He loved the bedside lamps that they had, and we just stumbled on the source over at Bromhead ...

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