My Style Monday {Colorful Lighting}

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Today I’m so excited to have Susi, a writer for Arcadian Lighting guest posting for A Place For Us today. Founded in 2002, Arcadian Lighting started selling decorative home lighting fixtures and lamps online, and has become one of the top Internet retailers for home lighting products. Visit their website and cool blog for more information.

Hi, I’m Susi and this week on My Style Monday, we're writing about colorful lighting. Lighting is an easy way to add pops of color to your décor. From hanging fixtures to lampshades, colorful lighting can create new focal points in your room. We've pulled together eight of our favorite ways to use this design element in your own home.

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Colorful lighting, like these blue globes, is an easy way to bring a room to life. Colorful hanging lights draw the eye up to color in an unexpected place.

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This gorgeous turquoise bead chandelier makes a big impact in a white dining room. It creates a focal point that draws the eye to the dining table.

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A group of colorful glass pendant lights adds a cool retro feeling to this dining area. Choosing three different colors adds more interest than using all the same color.

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Pick up colors from your existing décor and add them to your lighting. Love how the yellow of the lamps relates to the artwork on the wall.

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A white or black lamp can easily be turned into colorful lighting with a colorful lampshade. Choose a coordinating color or contrasting color depending on how much you want the lighting to stand out.

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Colored glass, like these vintage Murano table lamps, adds sparkle as well as color to a room. If you have a neutral colored space, colorful lighting will pop against beiges and whites.

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Not all color in lighting comes from the light fixtures themselves. Recovering existing lampshades in colorful fabrics is a smart way to create a colorful lamp with what you already have. Use vintage or new fabrics, and look online for a DIY tutorial.

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Another option for adding colorful lighting to your décor is to rehab your existing lighting. Painting a lamp can give you the perfect shade to complement your décor. Go straight to Arcadian Lighting's website to discover even more beautiful and brilliant design ideas and a vast array of lighting fixture products to choose from!

Thank you so much Susi for guest posting today!  Loving those lampshades and that red lamp looks like candy!!

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New {Seven Dollar }Side Table

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A few weekends ago my mom and I, she’s my shopping partner in crime:0) went out to a few of the Goodwills and Savers around town. I found a few items but my favorite was this 7.oo table I picked up from Savers.

It had beautiful lines and great details! I knew all it needed was a fresh coat of paint. SO I brought it home and doll it up for our family room:0) It looked like it was a mix of veneers and real wood so I decided not to sand it. I just cleaned up the dust and primed it with a coat of gray.

You can see in this the dark gray primer(Krylon) under the lighter gray paint that I had left over from the boys room. I used a cheap sponge brush to apply it. I love using those thing:0)  SO much easier on small projects like this! To get the more detailed areas, I used a light gray spray paint from Krylon, again.

So that would be THREE different grays I used:0)

The result it a pretty grayed little table that sits next to one of our sofas in the family room. When I paint furniture I don’t try to get it perfect. I dab, stroke, sand and chip away at it. I leave some parts “unfinished” to get that it’s been here forever look.

 

I fell in LOVE with the pictured white lamps from Homegoods. I picked up two of them and sat one of them on my new table:0) Thanks to a loaded gift card from my mom and dad and sister…they were free to me! yes!

I lightly sanded some areas so that the darker color could be seen. I also added a crystal knob that I had from an extra curtain tie back. I added these baskets that my MOM got for me. I think they were 2.00 for a set of 6.

Another peak of the lamp. So curvy!!! I really REALLY adore these lamps. Anytime I walk in to Homegoods I’m drawn to that section:0)

So fun! I also have a table that I’m SANDING(seems like I never sand anymore:0) that has been in my office for a while!

Paula Deen Table {A Closer Look} and my new friend Crystal!

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A few weeks ago we got our new dining room table from Paula Deen. My original Oliboard showed something very similar to the one I ended up going with except,less expensive:0)

I first saw this table when I was googling Pottery Barn tables! From the beginning of time, I have always said I was going to get the square Montego table from Pottery Barn. That was THE table I wanted! But it didn’t want me…lol! The price was so far out of our budget there was just no way I was going to convince the Mr. that we needed a 4500 dollar table…lol! NOPE!

The funny thing about it is that as soon as I ordered this table, I was Craiglisting and I spotted THE square table for only 600 dollars brand new AND another Montego in rectangle with 6 wood chairs for only 1200!!! Of course right?? ahhh! But, I was already in love with the other one!!

Anyway, while I was googling I came upon this furniture place called Jordan's Furniture and I started looking around and immediately saw these beautiful turned chocolate table legs and I had to have it!  To my surprise it was a Paula Deen set made by Universal Furniture! I seriously had NO idea she sold furniture…lol!  So I did some research, meaning I hunted around to see if I could get a better price, and I ended up ordering it from an online furniture company called THE PLACE. Let me tell you, this was THE scariest purchase of my life!!! OMGoodness. I looked at reviews before I purchased and everything I read was horrible..like really bad, HORRIBLE!! For two days straight I read review after review about how bad this company was!!! Any normal human would hit the door running. BUT this particular company was selling the table way under our budget and with FREEEEEEE SHIPPING!!! To good to be true?

So I thought about it long and hard…called THE PLACE before I purchased…REGGIE talked to the online manager…and we felt good about it. We paid through paypal…just in case and purchased one LARGE gorgeous table and 6 beautiful chairs over the internet..from  a store all the way in NewYork!...SCARY!

BUT everything came here ON TIME and in PERFECT condition!!!! No mess ups or mistakes, nothing at all!!! THE PLACE did a great job with our order and made sure everything arrived! Totally would do business with them again! They answered all my panicky questions and returned our phone calls!

Here is a close up!

Curvy legs and parts of the table are distressed so it looks a little banged up! Love that!

The table came with TWO leafs for extra setting up to 10. This is going to be perfect for Thanksgiving!! Last year I used folded tables and a two Ikea curtains;0) yes I did.

I wanted the host and hostess chairs to be in this linen slipcover which I can take off and wash as needed.

The back has the traditional pattern and the seats are super easy to clean and durable!

This is our first piece of GROWN UP piece of dining furniture…no china cabinet though;0)  Could have snagged my moms 19 piece set she was trying to “keep in the family” lol! But I just wasn’t us! So glad we held out and saved up! Now its ours!! We LOVE it and are so happy that we have a place to sit our friends when we have them over for a BIG feast or intimate dinners!

OHH and of course a dining room table wouldn’t look complete if it didn’t have something pretty hanging above it!

Meet my new friend Crystal Chandy;0)

My hubby hung it a few days ago and I think it is THE perfect addition to the room…..so Candice Olson right? I hope!;0)

The room is coming along! Looking at rugs and curtains AND PILLOWS! Still need to find some chairs and other lovely things to go in our new rooms….can you believe it looked like this before!!!