Lasso Mini Sconces by Besa Lighting

You’ve borrowed ideas from beauty magazines to add gold leaf to your nails for a modern holiday look. You even bought a tube of bold gold lipstick to update your holiday grooming glamor. What about your home? Is your home as inviting and beautiful as its hostess?

Consider contemporary Lasso sconces by Besa Lighting. These modern wall lighting fixtures are called mini sconces because of their 3″ high and 4.72″ diameter glass. You can select glitter glass or ribbed opal. White on white doesn’t ever have to be boring. Would you say a white and silver holiday table setting is ho hum?

Give your bathroom, bedroom or hallway a designer edge with Lasso. The beautiful textured glass is called Lasso because it will rope you in. Think of a braided lariat!

Be a modern Slue Foot Sue! If this tall tale fictional lass can win Pecos Bill’s heart, you will find Lasso’s contemporary wall lights just as captivating. In addition, to these magnificent task lights to line your hallway, you can find vanity lights and hanging lights from the same collection to add winter white modern sparkle.

I prefer the polished nickel paired with the glitter glass but you can also choose satin nickel or bronze to go with the matte opal glass. Don’t limit yourself to this month’s holiday, Thanksgiving. Think ahead for Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year’s Eve and even Valentine’s Day bashes at your home.

Remember to treat yourself to a homemade peppermint truffle before your guests arrive! Next week I begin my rum ball making.

Webster Wall Sconces by Willmette Lighting

If you are longing for Alison Berger’s cylinder wall sconces mentioned in Remodelista that cost $3,540 each, don’t despair. That may be out of your price range. However, I have a beautiful substitute to recommend. Wilmette Lighting created Webster, a collection of transitional wall sconces with exquisite fabric shades and optional cage design.

Why would I recommend this? I believe Webster’s white shade with polished nickel finish looks sophisticated and upscale like the aforementioned cylinder wall sconce without the inconvenience of a 12 week lead time. In addition, Webster is affordable. You can nab these wall light fixtures for under $240 through AffordableLamps.com

These wall lamps use energy efficient lighting such as halogen or CFLs. You can dress up a plain bathroom wall with its desert clay shade and antique bronze finish. You can also select satin nickel with desert clay or white shades. The cage design is optional but I think it adds a charming basket dimension to the wall light fixture.Webster wall mounted lights are 11.8″ high and 5.4″ wide.

Pendant Lighting for Kitchen Cargo by Wilmette Lighting

You can visit HGTV for its kitchen remodeling videos and guide to kitchen lighting. In a nutshell, consumers’ expectations have evolved. They expect pendant lighting to be an artful addition to their decor, they want the cooking area to have bright light and their kitchen to transform into a bar with ambient lighting. I recommend Cargo pendant lights by Wilmette Lighting to achieve two of these objectives. Contemporary pendant lights such as these work well in a bar setting as well as bright task lighting.

Homeowners can create different moods with Cargo kitchen lighting pendants. You might want to serve dessert from Lucy Baker’s The Boozy Baker. I recommend the homemade port ice cream and enchant your guests in the kitchen. You can read more about bar lighting on our Squidoo lens on homebartending.

Wilmette Lighting Congress Pendant Lights

How will you decorate your home for Thanksgiving? Will you add stems of fresh rosemary on your buffet table? Will you visit Pinterest for Thanksgiving decor inspiration?

Select Congress pendant lighting by Wilmette Lighting for home lighting decor that will go well anything. Have you considered a Tuscan-themed turkey day? Do you have a great recipe for Hawaiian cranberry relish? Use your creativity to make your event a meal to remember!

Do you want to place miniature gilded pumpkins and white holiday lights across your fireplace mantle? The nickel finish and clear, polished glass of Congress will provide the  contemporary pendant lighting you need for such a dramatic display.

Are you interested in faux acorns and pine cones on your holiday plates? What about sticks of maize and white candles? What about gold pears and fall leaves? These 4″ round pendants will heighten the holiday decorations in your living room or family room. Wilmette Lighting created such a versatile pendant light that these can be installed over your bar or kitchen island.

Contemporary Lighting Muroa Sconces by Zaneen Lighting

This halogen sconce would be cute to place install in the dining room in time for Thanksgiving. Like other contemporary wall sconces, Zaneen Lighting’s Muroa has minimal decoration an uses metal and glass. What’s unusual? The wishbone design suggested by the two prongs for the wall light. The wall lighting fixtures is 11″ high, 9″ high and 6″ deep. The white blown glass provides direct lighting to assist in layering light in a room with overhead lighting.

What do you wish for the Thanksgiving gathering? That your family with accept your new partner? That your mom will not mention past conflicts. That no one can tell that your dessert was store-bought? I read a tip in Susie Coelho’s book, Styling for Entertaining, that it’s possible to disguise a store bought dessert by sprinkling powdered sugar on it and moving it to a tray of your own. How’s that for time-saving, wonderful sneakiness?

Did you know that the breaking of a wishbone is a tradition brought over to the New World from the European Middle Ages? Since turkeys are not found in Europe, believers of the wishbone superstition used a goose’s wishbone from an autumnal feast. The person who received the larger part of the wishbone in a contest would have his wish granted. The wishbone was also used in 1455 to divine the severity of the coming winter.

Count on Zaneen Lighting to tickle the funnybone of your guests when you choose Muroa sconces.

Banale European Modern Design by Zaneen Lighting

One look at Zaneen Lighting’s Banale and it summons “Androgyny” from the band Garbage. The European designers of this pendant lighting fixture have created a whimsical modern light that would fit well in modern masculine decor or in feminine bedroom. The image above shows how splendid Banale would look in a home office. What do you think? I especially like this modern centerpiece in a room with dark blue walls and green-yellow furniture.

Banale is 46″ high and 16″ wide. The 8-Light Chrome Pendant is a fantastical sculpture of blown opal white glass diffusers. View “Fantastic Planet”, French animation directed by Rene Laloux and released in 1973 for something equally trippy.

If you like 5.5 Designers’ kitschy Fire Kit lamp that looks like a campfire in your living room, you’ll like Banale by Zaneen Lighting. You can also suspend this contemporary pendant lighting fixture over a low coffeetable in your lounge. Banale is anything but ordinary and everyday. I can see this pendant light fixture at home with Philippe Nigro’s famous rug with overlapping squares and Cedric Ragot’s pixel-esque ottoman seats.

Dazzle your guests with futuristic decor and fine art. You’ll be tickled to have Banale by Zaneen Lighting in your home.