When choosing to build a home, a spec home offers distinct advantages over the headaches of building custom. Affordability is key. And months of decision making on items such as lighting and plumbing fixtures are handled by the builder or designer who use years of experience in knowing what will work for a specific floor plan.
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The guest room is often the ugly stepchild in home design. Why spend a lot of time, effort, and money making a room stylish and beautiful when it sits unused much of the time?
Our friends Barry and Jordan, aka the Brownstone Boys, beg to differ. When they decided to renovate the guest bedroom in their 130-year-old Brooklyn brownstone, they went all out to make it one of the prettiest rooms in the house.
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It’s no secret that the farmhouse trend shows no signs of slowing down. A parallel trend of creating homes in renovated barns offers another creative way to showcase rustic style.
And now meet Shawn who brings the two trends together into one stunning space. Shawn’s new barnhouse, located in Bertram, Texas just northwest of Austin, features a barn on the first floor with living space above. The home offers the perfect blend of traditional materials with updated details.
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Building a new home requires countless decisions from the orientation of the home on the lot to the color of the cord for the kitchen pendant lights. Luckily, the internet offers countless sources of inspiration for these choices!
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When we launched our new Timber & Ore collection last December, we knew that homeowners, designers, and lighting enthusiasts would love the addition of warm wood to our classic lighting styles. And if our Instagram hashtag, #mybarnlight, is any indication, we were spot on with that prediction!
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The Barn Light Electric blog has been chock full of color the last two Mondays as we toured Allison and Steve’s new Alabama home. If you missed the posts, be sure to check them out here and here.
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