By Nancy B I have found when I have bad hair days for a month and my appointment is tomorrow, I can count on my hair suddenly looking great just in time for the appointment. I have also found when I plant bulbs or new tender plants and squirrels are around, I can count on the varmints digging them up. In addition I have found when there is a family portrait planned, I can count on one of the … [Read more...]
Gold, Gold and More Gold: Finishes, That Is
By Nancy B I’m sure many of you remember the polished brass and antique brass of years gone by. When I started in the lighting business nearing 40 years ago, polished and antique brass were very popular and almost all traditional homes had brass lighting fixtures. Polished brass is still a beautiful finish but lighting manufacturers stopped supplying it about 12 years ago, but trust … [Read more...]
Who Needs Spring?
By Nancy B I do, I do, I do! The current temperatures have caused many of us to have Spring Fever with a great desire to be outside. In fact, outside rooms seem to be more in demand than ever before. Think of how you would like to use your outdoor living space before designing it. And how many guests will you have in your space? Make sure your charming oasis meets all your … [Read more...]
Adventures of the Cousins
By Nancy B You may have read about Shirley Mae Roomba and her cousin, Erma Sue Shark, our two robot vacuum cleaners. Shirley Mae keeps the upstairs floors cleaned. and Erma Sue is the downstairs sweeper. They are both doing well, even though we did have a little incident the other day. I had asked Erma Sue if she would mind cleaning the carpets downstairs again, and being as sweet as … [Read more...]
Erma Sue
By Nancy Brewer Adult children are the best. They give such wonderful gifts. Our daughter Angelin and her husband Brent gave me a Roomba for Christmas and her name is Shirley Mae Roomba. You were introduced to her recently when Jim wrote about her. She and I have become fast friends and she promised not to disturb the small coals around the gas logs again. She still bumps into … [Read more...]
Creating an Outdoor Room
It’s expensive to add a room or an addition to a home. Current estimates to put an addition onto an existing home can be from $200 to $250 per square foot or more. That means if you’d like to add a 20 x 30 living area to your house, you’re looking at somewhere in the neighborhood of $100,000. But what if you already had the space, and many people do, in their own yards. With the proper lighting, … [Read more...]
Holidays and Ornaments
By Nancy B I hope your Thanksgiving was a time of great food and giving thanks. This year has been a tough one no doubt and many of us did not have friends or family join us for Thanksgiving and may not for Christmas. However, we still have much for which to be grateful. Did we each wake up this morning? As 2020 nears the end, we have hope that 2021 will be a year of good health, friends, … [Read more...]
Nancy B’s House of Lights
TOOL OF THE RESIDENTIAL LIGHTING TRADE Have you ever had a home built? Or a deck? Maybe a screened porch? I work with builders and help their clients with lighting. I’ve walked many homes that were in the process of being built to help with the proper placement of lighting. I don’t often think of some of the necessary tools a builder requires. My brother was a builder and he … [Read more...]
Re-imagining Residential Lighting
By Nancy B I’ve been hearing this word, “re-imagining”, lately and I don’t believe I have ever used it in a sentence. So I looked up the meaning: to imagine anew, to rethink, new concepts were just a few definitions. In the Furniture, Lighting Decor magazine I receive, there was an interesting article about this very thing. The article was stating our relationship with our homes has … [Read more...]
Outdoor Living With Outdoor Lighting
By Nancy B If by chance you read or subscribe to the Cville Buzz you notice Jim’s articles on our pond. We built a small pond in our backyard in the spring for our 8 goldfish, but mostly for my husband. It has been quite an adventure and now we have an additional 14 baby goldfish. How did that happen? Anyway, I moved my parents’ very old metal glider in front of our pond for better … [Read more...]
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