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Jul
14
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Jun
22
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10 Easy Update Ideas for Your Kitchen
- Paint one wall a color. Or try a gradated color on the ceiling (going lighter towards the center).
- Change your pendants with larger hip pendants (or convert your recessed lights to pendants).
- Add a large shade over the chandelier above your eating table. Shop here.
- Add LED lighting above your cabinets. This will make a low ceiling seem higher.
- Add a rug. The new & improved “outdoor” rugs work really well in the kitchen because you can hose them off! They now look like tufted carpet!
- Add a bordered sisal rug and repeat the border fabric on your barstools!
- Recover your barstools in an updated fabric.
- Change your knobs (See Top Knobs Nouveau section here and here).
- Paint your outdated tile backsplash with epoxy paints in a random checkerboard pattern in various hues of the same color interspersed with a neutral (gray, white, beige, etc.). Here’s how!
- Replace your center ceiling light with monorail track. This allows for task and accent lighting on artwork, special cabinet and hood features, etc.
Mar
17
17
Check out our “Green Lights” and our Energy Star selections on our website! Eco-friendly products have taken on a stylish twist! Bamboo, cork, hemp, and recycled wood, paper and glass are transformed into exciting lighting products! Change your light fixture to an Energy-Star certified product or just change your bulbs to color-corrected fluorescent bulbs! You can realize average rates of return on your initial investment of 30% or more, reduce your lighting electricity bill by more than half, and help save the environment.
Eco-Friendly Cork Table Lamp, Twine Pendant Light
Lighting accounts for 20 to 25% of the electricity used annually in the United States. If energy-efficient lighting was used everywhere, the electricity required for lighting would be cut by 50% and aggregate national electricity demand would be reduced by 10%. Energy savings would exceed $12 billion a year while decreasing air pollution by 5%. This would be equivalent to taking 15 million cars off the road, resulting in less smog, acid rain and a slowing of global climate change.” *
Reclaimed Wood Urn Table Lamp, Recycled Green Glass Table Lamp
Take care when selecting a fluorescent bulb to make sure you get the best color lighting for your needs. Color temperature is a measure of the output “color” of the bulb. The higher the number in kelvins (K), the “cooler” (bluer) the color light it produces. We recommend 3000K for a nice warm pinkish light and 5000K for a clear daylight (called full spectrum) effect. Some variations and inconsistencies exist among manufacturers. For example, Sylvania’s Daylight CFLs have a color temperature of 3500 K, while most other lamps with a “daylight” label have color temperatures of at least 5000K.
Compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs) come with a screw-in base that fits most table and floor lamps.
See our substantial Sisal and Seagrass rugs!
Natural Sassy Sisal Rugs, Basketweave Seagrass Rug, Sassy Sisals Rug
* EPA Green Lights Statement, Copyright 2009 Shades of Light
