Anthropologie Lotus Pendant

Anyone in the market for a light fixture??  Anthropologie's brass lotus pendant is on sale now in two sizes with an additional 40% off the sale price.  You can get the small one for $100 bucks or the large for under $240!  Just a PSA in case anyone is in the market.  Would look cool in a small dining nook, in a child's bedroom, living room, hallway...all kinds of places!

Guest Room Chandelier

I love our quaint little guest room.

When we moved into our house there was a ho-hum ceiling mounted fixture in the guest room.  My grandmother had this beautiful Italian chandelier that we decided to hang in there.  We asked the electrician to hang it for us but I didn't even think about the fact that the ceiling color could be different due to paint/stains from where the old fixture was.  See?

The poor quality of these iPhone pictures aside, it looks terrible, right??  Certainly doesn't do the fixture justice like I wanted to do for my sweet Grandmother.

For a mere $16 I bought a ceiling medallion from Home Depot and had my handyman take down the chandelier, add the medallion, and rehang the fixture.  Now it not only looks clean and need, I think the elegance of the fixture is amplified.

Now the room just feels more complete.

There are also little matching sconces that I love.

They flank the window in the room.

On another note, I have always adored this chandelier and always told my grandmother I wanted it one day. (Thankfully I was the only granddaughter so I didn't have a lot of competition since it is a little feminine for the boys liking...).  Anyway, I was reading Miss Mustard Seed's blog and saw that she just recently hung a similar one in her office that I adore.  Isn't it sweet?

Lovely Lighting from Hudson Valley

Beautiful lighting from Hudson Valley Lighting Co. I can think of places all over my house that I want all of these!

I especially want these next ones over the bookshelf/entertainment unit in my living room.

For the hallway...

For the (pretend) beach house...

For the den...

For the dining room...

For the hallway...

All fixtures found on Hudson Valley Lighting site.

Living with large Lighting

I am loving all of the recent changes to my living room - new color, new furniture and another new change that I hope to share with you all soon.  One downside that is really bugging me is the lack of light.  We have four lamps in here but no overhead light.  I've got an electrician and so I just need to pick my lighting and get it installed.  I'm having trouble deciding on a fixture.  This is my top runner as of right now:

 I like it for two reasons:  1) Just 'cause it's pretty.  2) I have a gift certificate from Christmas to Ballard Designs so it is practically free.

Only thing is, the room isn't big so I don't want it to overwhelm the space.  That said, I really like the larger version of the above fixture better than the smaller one.  So, I started looking around at smaller spaces with really oversized lighting.  It could be a statement...what do you think?

Here are some examples:

 via Glass Art

via From the Right Bank

 via Perch

via Design Shuffle

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Last three images via here.

It's [Urban] Electric!

I found the image below on pinterest and was so distracted by the animal print on the stairs that I didn't even notice the great light fixture. Then I stumbled across Urban Electric and realized this is where the image came from. I adore so many of their lights...certainly not in my price range (most are over a grand) but still fun to look at don't you think?