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Featured Customer | Gooseneck Lights Bring Historic Touch to Conch-Style House

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They pack a lot of culture, sunshine, and absolute fun into the seven square miles that make up our nation’s southernmost city. While Key West, Florida, is known for many things, the history of the place is particularly fascinating. Cuba may come to mind when you think of cigar making, but Key West was once considered the cigar capital of the world shipping more than 62 million cigars annually. In the late 1800s, there were more than 80 cigar factories with hundreds of workers living in small conch houses. One of these houses, severely damaged by fire in 2011, was recently rebuilt by today’s Featured Customer Mark who shares with us why he chose gooseneck barn lighting to honor the history of the home.
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Repurposed Warehouse Shades Find New Life in Australian Retreat

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While we knew that RLM warehouse shades were all the rage in the United States during the 1930s and 40s in factories and warehouses, apparently they were quite popular Down Under too. Our friends at the Red Brick Barn, a rustic, two-story retreat in central Victoria, found some vintage warehouse shades at a local flea market and repurposed them for use in the communal dining room. The shades were green enamel when found at the flea market but were spray painted an off-white color leaving a hint of green showing at the rim as an accent.

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Porcelain Pendant Lights for Barn-Style Home in Utah Mountains

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A remodeling project often starts with just a nagging feeling that something in a space needs attention. It may be a worn out rug, a sagging sofa, or lighting that needs updating. Luckily, lighting is one of the easiest and most economical ways to give a room new life and a fresh look! When one of our recent Featured Customers recently tackled the remodeling of her home — a barn-like structure nestled in a beautiful valley in the mountains of Utah — she focused on aesthetic changes which included new porcelain enamel lighting in several rooms.

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Featured Customer | Barn Lights Beautify New Coastal Home Inside and Out

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When Hurricane Sandy was bearing down on the East Coast just before Halloween, millions of anxious Americans watched and waited. In Madison, Connecticut, a coastal town along Long Island Sound, Jennifer and Mark had just finished installing barn lights and were putting the finishing touches on their brand new home when the hurricane hit. “We moved in the first week of October. Our house made out fine, thankfully, but we were without power for a week,” Jennifer says.

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Vintage Porcelain Lighting Sets Mood in Victorian Wine Cellar

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vintage_cord_hung_porcelain_pendant.jpgSad as it may be, most homes don’t come with a wine cellar. Much less a wine cellar that oozes with warmth, style, and a moody vibe that lets you know as soon as you cross the threshold that this is a place to slow down, relax, and breathe —  just like a good wine. This gorgeous setting is part of a 126-year-old home located in Connecticut’s Pine Meadow Historic District. Known as the Philip Chapin House after its first owner, it is named in the National Register of Historic Places as “an excellent example of Victorian domestic architecture.” The owners have spent decades preserving the historic details of this home and, as you can see here, chose classic porcelain lighting to set the mood.

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Featured Customer | Bronze BLOG Winner Shows Off New Lights

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When we kicked off the summer with our annual B.L.O.G. contest — that’s Barn Light Online Giveaway — many of you bloggers dove right into our website to pick out your favorite lights then blogged about it online. When the dust settled, our third place prize went to Shannan in Goshen, Indiana. Shannan muses about house and home on her Flower Patch Farmgirl blog. Shannan and her husband Cory, along with kids Calvin, Ruby and Silas, are anxiously awaiting the completion of their new home. The B.L.O.G. contest came at an opportune time for them.
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