Let There Be Light

Industrial Chandelier 

$249 from West Elm

Today I bring you the results of my exhaustive online search for a new dining room pendant light/chandelier. The one that came with the house looks OK, but needs to be replaced as the constant high-pitched buzz ringing out just inches above our heads is quickly driving my husband insane. We've decided to have a yard sale this weekend to 1) get rid of junk like old sprinklers and bird feeders that the former tenants left behind, 2) say goodbye to things that we have moved multiple times (sorry, Micky!) that just don't belong in our lives anymore, and 3) make a couple of bucks that we can put towards buying a new light and paying an electrician to install it. It will be my very first yard sale as an adult, and I am very much looking forward to bargaining with all of the early birds. I have real TAGS that I intend to tie to everything emblazoned with reasonable sale prices and I've been thinking a lot about our display strategy --- tables with objects arranged at arm's reach work way better than tarps stretched across a soggy lawn piled with things that no one wants to bend down and dig through. Yes. I've given this system many thoughts. Hopefully it won't rain and we'll pass all of our old things to new homes and make millions doing so. 

Oh! And I think the above Industrial Chandelier from West Elm might be the winner. Which one do you guys like the most?

Mobile Chandelier 

$249 from West Elm

Large Industrial Milk Glass Pendant 

$124.99 (on sale!) from West Elm

Vega 5 Chandelier 

$329 from Schoolhouse Electric & Supply Co.

Victory Pendant Lamp

$179 from CB2

Satellite 3

$259 from Schoolhouse Electric & Supply Co. 

Hampton Bay 1-Light Brushed Nickel Warehouse Pendant

$29.88 from Home Depot

Mobile Small Pendant 

$149 from West Elm

- Cathleen 

Wood Work

Wooden Bear Skin Rug

$2900 from NAMEthisDESIGN on Etsy

A few solid favorites from my Etsy woodpile to keep you warm on this cold Wednesday. All are beautifully hand-crafted and could double as kindling if need be! 

Wood and Resin Pendant Necklace

$50.49 from BoldB on Etsy

Wooden Xylophone Porch Swing 

$1300 from musicalfurnishings on Etsy

Wooden Aztek Pendant Light

$362.58 from MarzDesignsShop on Etsy

Wood Earbud Holder

$27 from AcousticDesign on Etsy

- Cathleen

Artwork of the Week: Totem Lights

Totem Lights by Jamie Julien-Brown

I've been unofficially on the lookout for a new living room light source ever since Graham tackled our single floor lamp to the ground and ripped it's shade off. It currently stands quivering in the corner, it's torn white screen propped precariously on the wire frame, ready to hula hoop down the post at the slightest provocation. 

While a new floor lamp is probably not in our future anytime soon (I think a pendant of some sort might be ), it would be incredible to own one of these Totem Lights by artist and designer Jamie Julien-Brown. They are all one-of-a-kind creations, made from multi-colored, variously textured glass lampshades strung on an internal light source and mounted on a white ceramic tile base. On or off, they are a bright, playful synthesis of form and function. The works are sold exclusively through a London shop called Darkroom for around 2700 GBP.

Jamie Julien-Brown also does some really neat illustrations as well as murals, and other 3-D work. You can see more from the artist on his website: jamiejulienbrown.com


- Cathleen


[Images courtesy of Darkroom]