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Rustic Pendant Lighting Dresses Up the Market Center

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In yesterday’s blog we found some tasteful rustic sconces and gooseneck angle shades at the Market Center located in historic Biltmore Village just outside the gates of the Biltmore mansion, the largest home ever built in America. When George Vanderbilt created his vast estate in Asheville, North Carolina he also built a peaceful community just outside the gates to complement his landholdings and to supply a source of rental income. Today, Biltmore Village offers an array of shopping and dining establishments including one of the most elegant McDonald’s restaurants in the world featuring a grand player piano, vaulted ceilings, and fireplaces. The golden arches are actually golf leaf! blue_collar_pendant_angle_shades_commercial.jpg
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Professional’s Corner | Q&A with VAI Studio in Hawaii

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In the tiny village of Olowalu on the island of Maui, a casual roadside café called Leoda’s Kitchen and Pie Shop opened last November. With the style of an old plantation store, Leoda’s serves sandwiches, sweet and savory pies, fresh-baked breads, and salads made from local ingredients. The remodeled space was created by Jeremy Stoddart, project manager for VAI Studio. In addition to using reclaimed and recycled materials throughout, Jeremy chose a variety of barn lights, porcelain warehouse shades, rustic sconces, and commercial grade ceiling fans from Barn Light Electric to create the warm and welcoming atmosphere at Leoda’s.
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Versatile Barn Pendant for Shaker Style Kitchen

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barn_pendant_kitchen.jpgSome spaces just cry out for a barn pendant. Yes, we’re biased, but this cottage in western Maine, designed by John Cole, is a beautiful example of how choosing the right style of light can provide the perfect finishing touch to a room. Here in this cozy kitchen, reclaimed barn timbers in the exposed framing and locally milled fir flooring and trim create a warm, inviting feel to the space. Hanging above the table is a pendant very similar to Barn Light Electric’s Homestead Pendant, an American made fixture that represents a style of lighting first used in factories and warehouses in the early 20th century.
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Barn Light Sconces Light Up Inn’s Walkways and Gardens

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In last Thursday’s blog, we took you 3,600 feet up into the Blue Ridge Mountains to the High Hampton Inn where rustic, shingle-style buildings are nestled against a backdrop of lush greenery, a sparkling lake, and the rolling greens of the golf course. Gardens abound throughout the 1,400-acre property and pathways meander along with no particular place to go. Visitors find numerous places to sit and ponder such wonders as the world’s largest fraser fir tree. Even after dark, you can stroll the grounds with ease thanks to miniature barn sconces that are placed low to the ground to softly illuminate the paths.
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Rustic Galvanized Barn Lights for Earthy, Organic Grocery

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The current trend of eating healthier, locally grown foods may seem like a relatively new phenomenon but it was more than 30 years ago that Whole Foods Market began its business with the concept of delivering the highest quality, least processed, most flavorful, and natural foods. Now with more than 300 stores in North America and the UK, Whole Foods Market is committed to the support of organic farming and sustainable agriculture in every community they serve. One of their stores, Greenlife Grocery in Asheville, North Carolina, offers the very best in local produce, meats, cheeses, and wines on their shelves as well as in their adjoining café. It was in the café and on the outside patio that we spotted some galvanized barn lights much like our Barn Light Warehouse Pendant with the stem mount option.
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Professional’s Corner | Q&A with n8 creative studios

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Myrtle Beach has long been one of the Southeast’s favorite family destinations. With specialty shops for Mom, exceptional dining for Dad, and loads of attractions for the kids, everyone is excited to pack for the South Carolina shore. One of the newest attractions is the Backstage Mirror Maze which features more than 2,000 square feet of infinite reflections, surprising corners, dead ends, and continuous circles. We talk with Nate Mitchell of n8 creative studios about how he used vintage gooseneck lighting as a focal point of this new attraction.
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