ROOM REMIX - Best Decorating: lighting

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My brother and his fiancee are getting married in less than two weeks! We have been busy making various decorations - including origami cranes and folding loads of tissue paper to create hanging pom-poms to decorate the ceremony and reception areas. I'm looking forward to see it all installed and in action!
I like this dining set-up above - it is also for a wedding. It has a grand and vintage feel to it all. The random combination of the lights and lanterns looks great above the ordered tables.
Photograph via April and May.

"Scattered Light" at Madison Square Park, NY

'Scattered Light' by Jim Campbell

Lightbulbs and New York City.

Thanks to the cool guys at Design Therapy, I found out about this simple but beautiful light installation at Madison Square Park, New York. Watch the video and find out more about this clever artist, Jim Campbell and to see the installation in action.
Photographs via Madison Square Park.

{Decor} Bohemian Rhapsody

I thought I would wrap up the weekend with these fun photos found on Flickr via

SF girl bay's photo stream. Isn't that bedroom fun? I love the pops of color and

use of stained glass windows instead of a headboard. I think the owner made great

use of their small San Francisco deck ~ it's an outdoor garden oasis that beckons for

a cocktail at dusk with that special someone! Just genius!

DIY Decorating - Blogger Projects

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Urban Nest did a wonderful job painting a graphic statement wall in her foyer...

After the Before but Before the After decided to expand on the idea and created this dramatic focal wall in her family room!

As we all know, there are a LOT of creative bloggers out there! I never cease to be amazed at the creativity and motivation. Today I'm spotlighting some of the creative ideas/projects that I've saved. Clicking on the links provided will take you to the complete post for each project.

Jamie at Something To Do turned an unused closet under the stairs into an awesome storage room...

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You know I love the idea of updating chandeliers with drum shades. This DIY shade was made by Living in the 513 using campaign signs and fabric! Creative or what?

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And many of you may have already seen this on YHL, but I had to share The Keylors drum shade that they made with hoops, plexiglass and burlap!

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Did you know that you could dye leather? Tatertots & Jello featured Kaysi from Keeping It Simple's leather chair transformation using dye. Complete tutorial here.

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Using this Pottery Barn image as inspiration,

Lakeitha from Home To Three Duncan Boys created this fun bedroom for her son. I like the way she mixed it up a bit from the inspiration photo by, for example, painting blue and white stripes in the closet versus using the striped duvet. Two other favorites in the room are the pallet headboard and the DIY light fixture. Click here for more room photos, and here for a source list.

Erika at Blu Label Bungalow designed this fabulous boy's room. My favorites are the stripes and the wall grouping!

Her design also included this clever book sling. She has an excellent tutorial so that you can make your own HERE.

Chic Coles takes these chairs (a score on Craig's List) from boring black to fabulous turquoise! Love it!

Candace at Crafty Sisters took an old dresser from this

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to this. Yes, she built the hutch herself! If you like the cute metal signs, she made those too and shows you how here.

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Have an awesome day!

Bringing the Outside In - Branches and twigs

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Midwest Living Photo Kim Cornelison

I started to put a post together on bringing the outside in and realized there were really too many ideas for one post, so I decided to break it into separate posts. Today's (as you've already seen) is ideas for decorating with branches and twigs. Enjoy!

Twig and candle centerpiece from Sunset (Christina Schmidhofer, Peter O. Whiteley)

Driftwood coat rack

Sunset (Rob D. Brodman, Jess Chamberlain)

Twig coat rack from Pottery Barn

Another take on branches in a vase...

Sunset Photo Lisa Romerein

A simple branch laying on the mantle...

Sunset Photo Lisa Romerein

or a couple in vases...

Sunset Photo Daniel Hennessy

Branch lampshade from Woman's Day. Complete instructions on their site.

Twig chandeliers...

houseandhome.com Photography: Kirsten Hinder

House Beautiful photo: James Carriere

Painted branch floor lamp

Southern Living Photo Robbie Caponetto

or table lamps

Sunset Photo Lisa Romerien

A driftwood lamp in this living room designed by Frank Roop (House Beautiful photo credit: Francesco Lagnese) I like the way they added what looks like a ribbon detail on the lampshade.

Metallic silver twig lamp collection from ZGallerie

Twig curtain rod (diyideas.com)...

Branch headboard...

houseandhome.com Photo Donna Griffith

Birch wall panel from Martha Stewart. Tutorial here.

Giclee branch prints from Ballard Designs

Potted twig placecard from Martha Stewart. This is actually a wedding idea, which could obviously be used for a dinner party too, but I think it would be cute to incorporate these into a spring/summer centerpiece choosing words that would be fun or meaningful to you. Tutorial here.

Twig serving set at Pottery Barn

A twig table in this bathroom designed by Newell Turner (House Beautiful)

Another take on a twig table via The Style Files

Okay. Probably not many of you have need for a wedding cake and one with this type of theme would probably narrow the field even more, but you have to admit it's a pretty cool idea. Who's idea? Martha of course! :-) Go here to see how they did it.

What do you think? Will you be using twigs or branches in your decor?

Have an awesome Wednesday!

Creative DIY Lighting and Lampshades

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Apartment Therapy

There are a lot of great lamps/shades/lights out there these days and many that are fairly inexpensive, but sometimes you just want to modify what you have or create something totally unique. If that's your goal, hopefully you'll find some ideas in this post to spark your creativity.

I love the creativity involved in this lighting transformation by Dwellings by Devore. She transformed these

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into these! Wow! For details on how she did it, click here.

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Kate at Design Sponge created this unique night light out of canvas. Complete tutorial here.

Crafty Nest made these adorable paper lanterns. Tutorial here.

One of the elements that Britt at A Penny Saved used to make this $9 DIY Schoolhouse light fixture was a pot lid! For her tutorial, click here.

Michelle from Cicada Daydream shows you how to make these "lamp sleeves". I think this idea could also be modified to make a sleeve/slipcover for a lamp shade too. Tutorial here.

Pendant lights from ceramic bowls at Country Living. Tutorial here. (photo credit: Dane Holwager)

Michael Penney at Canadian House and Home suggests making a lamp from a unique jar to get the look of this one like Tom Scheerer's. He gives you some ideas for doing it here. (photo William Waldron)

Kate at Design Sponge used felt to make these fun pendant lights. Tutorial here.

I linked to these back in August, but I'm not sure how many people have actually seen them since a lot of you are new to the blog since then. Jill at Forever Cottage created these pretty pendant lights out of baskets! For more on how she did it, click here.

Make a geometric design on your lampshade with a running stitch like this one at marthastewart.com

BHG.com has some fun ideas in their Quick Change Lamps slide show. The lamp shade below was embellished with a dish towel.

You've probably seen those great lampshades that show a pretty pattern when the light is on? Marthastewart.com shows you how to make a lampshade liner to get that same effect here.