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Complement Your Decor With Pendant Lighting

June 18th, 2011 by admin | Comments Off | Filed in Pendants Lighting
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A home is not complete without complimenting lighting. The correct lighting can transmit a whole mood of an area. An area can feel welcoming, clean, and warm. Choosing the right kind of lighting can be very important.

Picking out lights for the home is just as essential as choosing the color scheme and furniture. Make sure what you choose matches your current home decor. Matching the right light to your home decor can have stunning results. To create beautiful results, you have many options. It may seem overwhelming at first, but embrace the variety of items you have to choose from. From old-fashioned chandeliers, to modern recessed lighting, you have many choices you can make.

While lights were once about function, they are now more about style and aesthetics. Homeowners want to express themselves through their home decorating style, and lighting is just one more way they can do that. Beautiful pendant lighting can add personality to any home!

A wildly popular choice is pendant lighting. Pendant lighting gives the room a focus and accents other items inside the home. Even the lights themselves can be a focus. Pendant lighting can be used on the interior to highlight just about anything, such as pictures, sculptures, and focal points of the room.

What is best about pendant lighting is that it is affordable ceiling ... Read More

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Wall Sconce Tips

June 17th, 2011 by admin | Comments Off | Filed in Sconces
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Between all the choices that are available to illuminate your home, sconce lighting is one of the best ways to achieve it. Wall sconce lighting can add a unique glow to any room in your dwelling. There are all sorts that are out there in the market. But rest assured that there is a sconce that ought to compliment the distinctive layout and look of every single room in your dwelling. Here are a couple design tips.

A good place to use sconce lighting is right beside your bed. Create a stylish decor by putting up a sconce above each of your bedstands, on both sides of the bed.

Another good spot to install wall sconces is your bathroom. Place a sconce squarely on both sides of the mirror, above the wash basin. Alternatively if room doesn’t allow it, you could place them directly onto the mirror, maybe one on each of the lower or upper corners. The aesthetics of your bathroom will look their best if you use candles.

Don’t forget the living room. This is one area that you certainly should to install sconce lighting in. If you have a fireplace, position a sconce near each of the two upper corners, or even halfway down each side. This will make for a very romantic setting. What if you don’t own a fireplace? Try the same setup with your TV stand. One place in your living room which you should consider placing wall sconces is your doorw ... Read More

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The Significance of Lamps and Torches in the Late Archaic and Classical Periods

June 17th, 2011 by admin | Comments Off | Filed in Floor Lamps
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There are many ways of understanding the culture and history of civilizations – literary sources, archaeological remains, art, architecture etc, and each type can offer us different aspects of their lives. In this article, I wish to look at the history and significance of women’s lamps and torches from the Late Archaic and Classical periods of ancient Greece to determine what information they may offer us.

Let us determine, first of all, when these periods took place and what we will be discussing. 650 – 480 BCE is the generally accepted period of Archaic Greece, and the Classical period c. 500 – 323 BCE. For this article, I will be examining the images of Athenian women and their activities that were illuminated by lamps and torches, and whether a different type of lighting device can offer us other aspects of Athenian women’s’ lives.

Aristophanes claims that the lamps is ‘the all-seeing witness of the domestic female world’ (, p.19) in the prologue of the Ecclesiazousai. The lamp reflects the female aspect of domestic life in the ancient Greek world, whereas torches reflect the male features of the house. We can see the social representations of this in vase paintings – in one Athenian vase the female holds a lamp, the male a torch. Torches represented the outside ‘brighter’ world of men, lamps the ‘darker’ inside wide o ... Read More

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How to Install New Wall Sconces

June 17th, 2011 by admin | Comments Off | Filed in Sconces
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Replacing dated wall sconces has an immediate impact and is a very cost effective way to remodel a room. You don’t need to hire an electrician for this kind of project. Electricity has to be respected but not feared. These steps will make the process safe and simple for you to do.

Common electrical wiring for modern houses is done with both two and three wire cables which have a copper grounding wire. The difference is that three wire cables are used for three-way and four-way switches. Two wire cables have a black, white and a bare ground wire. Three wire cables have black, white, red and a bare ground wire. Typically, the black and red wires are hot, white is neutral and the ground wire is exposed copper.

Turn off the power at the breaker box. Loosen the screws holding the plate of your light fixture to the wall. Gently let the wall sconce down until the slack of the electrical wires is taken up and the fixture can safely dangle. Keep your hands away from the wires. Now, test the wires with a circuit tester to make sure the power is off.

Separate the wall sconce wiring from the wiring in the junction box. Just unscrew the small colored wire nuts and pull the wires away from each other. Now, straighten out the wires coming from the junction box so you can tie them into your new wall sconce with greater ease.

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