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3-tier mica shade indoor wall sconce by Kalco Lighting
Cast a rich, warm glow in your home with a mica shade and antique copper finish wall sconce. The Kalco Lighting candelabra base holds three 25-watt bulbs for a soft, diffused light. This can give the effect of firelight on a chilly evening. Rustic wall sconces such as these are ideal for a living room with jewel or earth tones. Show off a faux marbled wall or synthetic leather chair next to it. Pour yourself a cup of hot chocolate or Earl Grey and wiggle your toes! Coziness! The stained mica shade is a good alternative mineral to alabaster wall sconces. The slender 10” wide and 59.75” high wall sconce is perfect for small living spaces. Drawing the eye to the ceiling, with this home decor accessory, will make a low ceiling seem taller. How’s that for a bonus? Your ceiling just gained height! It’s like how tasteful heels can improve the overall silhouette of a woman. The Windsor Collection 505AC sconce has antique copper scrollwork pointing to the left like the number 2. Product 5406AC has copper scrolls facing the right like the number 6. Perfect for number nerds and Steampunk-inspired home decor enthusiasts. Visit our gallery for a selection of wall sconces.
Sometimes you overlook your mood. You feel relaxed or tranquil, sometimes joyful or excited, and you don’t even know why. Well Philips has brilliantly chosen to capture these emotions and reflect them with their latest LivingColors Gen2 mood lights. An improvement on the original generation of mood lighting, LivingColors Gen2 provides 50% more light to wash your home or office with intense hues and lush tones. And because LivingColors uses a high tech LED lighting design, you can bathe your everyday life with more intense light much more energy efficiently. (LED lights are 70% more energy efficient than traditional incandescent light fixtures.)
Blue LED LivingColors Light with Remote
At the touch of a button, quite literally, you can transform a grey, overcast day into a radiant sunset, or a hot, humid afternoon into a cool icy chamber of solace. And Philips, a division of Forecast Lighting, understands the importance of control and convenience when it comes to home lighting and decor, so they’ve made these LivingColors lights lightweight and portable and they include a handy remote with which you can control the intensity and color of your lamp.
Create a Unique Environment with LivingColors
The highly intuitive, touch-sensitive color wheel on your LivingColors Gen2 mood light allows you to choose between 256 different shades to create a dynamic and personal atmosphere in your home or office using this unusual contemporary lighting innovation. And the chic, round design of the mood light itself makes this invention extremely intriguing. Featuring a clear bulbous form so you can actually see the LED lighting technology at work, LivingColors mood lighting really does give you the feeling that you are decorating your home with a living creation. Just watch this candid video to see what I mean!
These mood lights are so new they are not even up on the AffordableLamps.com site yet, but they will be soon! Just in time for your summer BBQs and wine tastings, children’s slumber parties, and romantic summer flings. My personal favorite hues out of all the LivingColors Gen2 possible shades are lavender (for bubble baths), lime green (for long days at the office), royal blue (for falling soundly asleep), and bright magenta (for bustling parties and friendly gatherings).
So Many Mood Lighting Styles
LivingColors mood lights are so convenient and versatile and beautiful all at the same time. Use them to brighten up a party, to calm down the kiddos as they’re going to sleep, to soothe your mind after a long day at work, or to create that perfect atmosphere for a romantic dinner. And because they are portable and just the right size to fit on a nightstand or dresser, you can use LivingColors mood lights as table lamps, desk lamps, night lights, porch lights, hallway lights…the possibilities are endless based on your own imagination. So take charge of your mood and fill your home decor with Philips LivingColors mood lighting.
If you want guests to feel like they’ve wandered into the imperial palace of a Roman emperor, then you should definitely look into ordering the newest traditional style masterpiece from Troy Lighting. The irresistible Mandarin foyer pendant light will transform any living room into an arena of glory. This handworked lamp is reminiscent of the ancient Roman Empire, when workers used their hands to create artistic lighting. These classical silver mica lamps are masculine, hand-worked wrought iron. Mandarin’s copper finish lends a royal touch to any home’s amphitheatre. This pendant foyer light hangs 18” from the ceiling; the 33 ¾” frame highlights wrought iron bands interwoven like the laurel leaves of champions. To feel the glow of a cheering coliseum in your living room, start by endowing it with Mandarin’s eight 60W candle bulbs. Troy Lighting’s Mandarin will make you feel like a powerful Caesar in no time. Just be sure not to invite anyone named Brutus to your next cocktail party.
Kichler Lighting has a new product in the semi-flush category called the Lacey which is part of a family of chandeliers, sconces, and pendants. This Kichler 42386- MIZ (Product Page: http://www.affordablelamps.com/kic-42386-miz.html) fixture features a mission bronze finish along with a cased opal inner diffuser and light umber translucent outer shade. In an effort to give Forecast Lighting a run for their money, this series is definitely a departure from their more nautical design forte. These flush-mount lighting fixtures are ideal fixtures for new construction, specifically suburban style town homes and those integrated condo projects that keep popping up in the cities of California such as Glendale, North Hollywood, and Burbank. The ones that blend city living with movies theaters, restaurants, and tourist activities all right outside of your door. I don’t know about you, but frankly, I would be fed up living in one of those complexes after a week at best. Sure, convenience is great, but so is peace and quiet and you will not get that living in one of those environments unless you have total soundproofing. This fixture is for peaceful abodes, as it has a calming feel to it. Hey, what the heck? I just contradicted myself. No, wait a second now, if these are installed in new urban town homes, then maybe that’s the point; they provide a stark contrast to the cacophony right outside your door. So all you need now is a fixture named Cagney, and your sit-com décor is complete.
Some of you may have noticed that I have not been at my desk here at affordablelamps for the last three weeks. After nearly six years, I finally took and extended vacation from lighting sales, RGA’s, and blogs to clear my head, visit my family, and soak up the sun of the Brazilian Northeast. I traveled through five states in Brazil, and spent Christmas, my birthday, and New Years reconnecting with the family, most of whom I had not seen in seven years. Needless to say, I had a great time, but even a vacation can wear you out and after we missed our return flight back to the USA, I spent two days in Manaus, Amazonas pondering if I was going to make it back at all. Due to a TAM airline delay, they were obligated to put us up at the Hotel Tropical, a four star resort on the bank of the river Negra. Meals were included, and this hotel has been featured on the Travel Channel and Discovery, due to its amazing Teakwood interiors. Rooms for this paradise start at R$649.00, about $394.00 in USA dollars, and the food was spectacular as well as the service, view, pool, bars, and entertainment. One thing I noticed there was the lighting; the interior fixtures were traditional style sconces, chandeliers, and table lamps, while the exterior were decidedly more tropical in design. Throughout my travels in Brazil, I visited many homes and one thing I noticed is that lighting was not a big factor in their décor. Most of the apartments and larger homes all had the same bare bones socket with a screw in compact fluorescent bulb with hardly any table lamps, and outdoor fixtures that were just standard flood lights. Brazil has a huge economy that is growing at a 10% annual rate, but you don’t need an economist to tell you that; just go out to the stores or the main streets, and you can see the crowds of people shopping like it is going out of style. I saw a few fancy fixtures at a couple of shops, but nothing on the level that we have here in the USA or on our site. Also, Brazil uses both AC 110 and 220, depending on what province you reside in. Fortaleza, for example, has outlets for both. Piaui uses 220, while Rio is all 110. Adaptors are commonplace, and it does not take a rocket scientist to rewire for AC 110. So what am I leading up to, you ask? With a huge growing economy, a need for better lighting, and surplus of lighting fixtures here in the USA, don’t you think it’s time to set up a real lighting store in Brazil? Let me know if you need a traveling sales guy, with experience.
Now this is a real Desperate Housewives Fan. I mean, literally. With it’s jet engine design, choice of either Brushed Stainless Steel finish with Light Oak blades, Oil-Brushed Bronze finish with Cherry blades or Satin Black finish with Satin Black blades, the Eva contemporary ceiling fan (product page: http://www.affordablelamps.com/kic-300121.html) from Kichler Lighting has got the ceiling fans market beat six ways from Sunday’s re-runs. The Eva measures 46” in diameter, up to 23.5” in height, uses one 100 watt E-11 halogen lamp and features the CoolTouch® system. This jet-age marvel with blow away the competition, along with all of the hot air from the local commercials. So be just like the Parker’s, and get blowing in the wind, of Kichler’s breakthrough in Fandom!
