Tag: lighting | Apartment Therapy

How To: Make LED Lights for Party Decoration

Our DIY wedding is getting closer, but the challenge of lighting remains. The dinner will be held on a gravel road, lined by olive trees, with the nearest power outlet a good 200 yards away. We've a...

Stoplight Pendant Lights

If you are a regular reader of our tech-head brother site, Unplggd, you may have seen these but we recently noticed them in a friend's home where they hung over her kitchen island. It was the unus...

How To: Make a Mason Jar Lantern

We plan on using mason jars at our wedding as vases, but now we'll have something to do with them after we're done. We've blogged before about Alyssa Etting's porcelain mason jar lanterns, but these...

President Obama Announces New Lighting Standards

President Obama is not only having Nobel laureate physicist Steven Chu manage the replacement of bulbs in the White House to more energy efficient models, but has also announced he's shaping a nationa...

Recycled Transmission Bookends and Lamps
by Scott Sullivan

This isn't the first time we've seen art-from-car parts. These functional and recycled pieces come from Chicago artist Scott Sullivan and are available for purchase on Etsy....

DIY Japanese Lamp from Recycled Materials

Inhabitat has a great article on some green lighting options from the London Design Festival: LIGHTEN UP, but why not make your own, from recycled materials!...

LED Lights for Your Home

While visiting some friends this weekend in California, I realized how much we need more light in our home. I simply don’t have time or money to install a Sun-Tek Tube Skylight, but I am thinking so...

Green Lighting: Solar Powered LED Pavers

We came across this project for one of our clients and just had to share it because it’s so cool and easy. The solar LED pavers are powered by the sun during the day and provide light night. They a...

Frog Design LED Bulb

At first glance, this looks just like a regular incandescent bulb. Take a longer look and you'll notice that it doesn't look quite right. The thin wire filament is not a wire at all. It is an LED. p...

Hot or Not? Garbage Lamp

Garbage Lamp: made of used, compulsively collected polystyrene drinking cups. posted originally from: AT:LA...

Look!: Baking Canisters as Light Fixtures

Two of our favorite things: repurposing and light fixtures. Artist Rodney Allen Trice combines the two in just one project among the most extensive and useful collection of repurposed housewares that...

DIY Upcycled Lighting Ideas from Etsy

Lamps can be made from just about anything heat-resistant using a store-bought wiring kit. We've seen them made from glass bottles, ceramic cups, and sometimes even plastic and metal pieces. Since E...

Banana Leaf Hanging Lamp at Brastilo

We don't know about you, but we've seen more than a few ads for Brastilo -- some on this very site. Curiosity got the best of us and we decided to check out the site.Our favorite piece, hands down?Th...

Measuring Lights by Chrissy Angliker

Many times we've come home from IKEA with one of the store's disposable tape measures floating around in our bag. When we saw these pendant lamps from designer Chrissy Angliker, we wished we'd have...

Lightway OLED Shutters

Double duty. These Lightway shutters from Australian design student, Damian Salvo, offer two solutions. Keep out unwanted light during the day, and add light and color to your nights....

Getting that Warm Glow

LEDs may become a viable light source -- if they become as efficient as fluorescents and do something about the chilly bluish glow. Fortunately, researchers are working on just that. (Not that the...

Wool Capsule Light

Creative lighting is a fun way to dress up a home and set a tone. We found this 100% wool capsule pendant lamp at Branch ("Sustainable Design for Living"), and loved the idea. Designed in 2004 by Jaim...