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 lanterns and we're thinking of using the idea for our next outdoor gathering.

Not only is red flattering on any skin tone, but it casts such a magical glow at dusk (red light district connotations aside) that all we can think about is living inside a Wong Kar Wai film, surrounded by lanterns.
Find a healthy selection of lanterns on paper lantern store, shoji decor and luna bazaar.

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Lovely photographs.

posted by Gallivant on April 21st 2008 at 9:59am
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Beautiful! Where we're the pictures taken?

posted by LegsBattaglia on April 21st 2008 at 10:31am
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Anyone know eher I could find these types of lanterns (in a waterproof material and with outdoor-safe electrics) that are safe for a balcony that gets wet?

posted by cat on April 22nd 2008 at 5:15am
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I recently purchased some lanterns from paperlanternstore.com. I got the nylon versions instead of the paper so they would be more weatherproof, and this weekend I rigged solar lighting on the inside and hung them. They let off a subtle glow; it's nice. The site also sells battery powered lights made specifically for lanterns, so you could always light them that way. Supposed to get like a 40 hour life out of the battery, which is pretty good as long as you remember to turn them off when you're not outside! I'm going to post an instructable soon on the solar rigging, I'll post a link when I get that up.

posted by jes on April 28th 2008 at 10:32am
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