February 2022 – Woodstock Lighting & Décor

Bathroom Vanity Lighting Inspiration – Modern

Bathrooms can be such an incredibly busy place in your home. Not only are they where you take care of business, but it is also the place where you prepare for your day and wind down for a relaxing night.

Your bathroom vanity lighting should express your style and feel of your family’s aesthetic. We have collected three options for those aspiring to a modern feel in their bathroom.

1. Bleeker 5-Light Vanity in Matte Black and Brushed Nickel

With a sleek cosmopolitan attitude and a beautiful blend of glass and metal, this five-light vanity offers a sophisticated way to stylize a modern bath space. Matte Black and Brushed Nickel serve as stunning finishes for a tasteful fixture delivering a geometric silhouette that embellishes master bath vanities.

Size or colour not what you’re looking for?

The Bleeker Collection offers the vanity light in a 1-light to 5-light formation. The Bleeker Collection is also available in a Brushed Nickel, Chrome or Olde Bronze finish.

2. Fallon 2-Light Vanity in Chrome

Opaque glass combines with a sleek polished chrome finish to create a dynamic, contemporary look for this two-light LED vanity light. Perfect for illuminating your ensuite, powder room or bathroom.

Size or colour not what you’re looking for?

The Fallon collection offers the vanity light in a 1-light to 6-light formation. The Fallon Collection also offers glass finish in clear ribbed or frosted setting.

3. Jackson 4-Light Vanity in Chrome and Matte Black

Linear design elements with elegant materials deliver a must-have look for a custom living space. Mid-Century Modern flavor stylizes this four-light vanity light, showcasing thick square glass shades mounted to a brilliant Chrome finish frame with a bold Matte Black surface.

Size not what you’re looking for?

The Jackson collection offers the vanity light in a 1-light to 5-light formation. The Jackson Collection also offers the fame finished in Chrome with Matte Black or Brushed Nickel and Matte Black.

If you are looking to update your home’s lighting please feel free to contact us.

Or better yet, come in for a visit to our showroom!

Layering Light in Your Living Room

Posted by: The Lighting Lady Posted on: Feb 15, 2022

Lighting your family room can be a tricky business. There are so many lighting options available. It can definitely be overwhelming. But not to worry. We are here to help!

Take a look through your living room and think of the different activities you would like to happen in the family room. For example, do you have a cozy armchair perfect for a cup of tea and a good book? Do you love to have family movie nights and want to be able to dim the lights for the theatrical effect? These are areas where you may want to add layered lighting options.

Typically designers like to use four layers of light when creating the perfect feel in a room. The four types of lighting are:

Natural Lighting

*Featured Fixture: Euclid Chandelier in Matte Black*

Of course, we all love to have bright beautiful windows in our home! Windows grant access to beautiful natural light. Depending on what direction your family room windows are, you will get a different feeling of natural light throughout the day. Knowing this will help you to bring in artificial lighting to manage the times of day where natural light is deficient.

2. Ambient Lighting

*Featured Fixture: Beau Chandelier in Rubbed Brass*

Ambient lighting is usually your overhead lighting. Often in family rooms this is overhead light that illuminates the majority of the room. Chandeliers, pot lights, flush mounts, and semi-flush mount lights are all great solutions for ambient lighting in the family room. It is always best to have these lights on a dimmer so you can adjust the amount of light coming from this source throughout the day.

3. Task Lighting

*Featured Fixture: Calumet Floor Lamp in Matte Black and Polished Nickel*

Task lighting allows a concentrated source of light to help execute a task. In your family room you may want task lighting in areas where you like to read, the kids do crafts, etc. Usually in the family room we see task lighting as a floor or table lamp.

4. Accent Lighting

*Featured Fixture: Fontaine Wall Sconce in Polished Nickel*

Accent lighting allows you to highlight different features in your family room. That could be your fireplace, a beautiful piece of artwork or within your cabinets. Oftentimes accent lighting can take the form of using wall sconces or integrated lighting solutions to draw the eye to the features of your home.

If you are looking to update your lighting please feel free to contact us.

Or better yet, come in for a visit to our showroom!

Inspiration:

*Featured Fixture: Arosia Pendant in Chrome*

*Featured Fixture: Sonna Flush Mount in Heritage Brass*

*Featured Fixture: Flair Wall Sconce in Antique Nickel*

Kitchen Island Lighting 101

Posted by: The Lighting Lady Posted on: Feb 1, 2022 bella , chandelier , custom kitchen , dome pendant , geo , geometric , kitchen design , kitchen island , kitchen lighting , landry , matte black , matte white , mini pendant , rubbed brass , yellow , z-studio

Ah. The magic of the kitchen island. It is one of the most used pieces of real estate in your kitchen. Here you prep meals for the family, you sign permission forms and go through the mail. It’s a busy and special place in the home. And the best part is, it’s one of the easiest and most fun places to play with your lighting design.

To give your kitchen a quick pick me up just change out your pendant lighting over your island with our quick tips.

What’s On the Ceiling?

Depending on how your kitchen island listing was planned you may have one main electrical boxes or multiple. If you have one main electrical box you can still have that multiple pendant look (without changing your wiring) but you will want to make sure that the fixture you select offers a long canopy to accommodate the multiple pendants.

If you are building your home, you may have more options to play with in regards to wiring above your kitchen island. Talk with your builder to see what your options are.

Bella Mini Pendant in Matte Black & Brushed Nickel

Sizing

When determining the size of your lighting fixtures for your kitchen island lighting it is incredibly important to know the length of your island and your ceiling height. No one wants to be bumping their head on a light while trying to cook dinner!

How Much Light Do You Need

Generally people prefer their kitchens to be bright with lots of light. When selecting your kitchen island lighting you want to pay attention to the shade of the lighting fixture. Metal shades will direct the light downwards giving you a ‘task lighting’ effect over your kitchen island. While open lights or clear glass shades will disperse the light in all directions working to illuminate more of the kitchen. Then there are white or opaque shades. These shades will illuminate more of your kitchen than a metal shade, but not as much as an open fixture or clear glass shades.

Feel Your Own Style:

This area of lighting should be where you can take a risk and bring out a little bit more personality to your kitchen. Whether that be something a little bit more vintage-inspired or something bright and bold. You can easily switch out these pendant lights when needing a refresh for your kitchen lighting.

Keep in mind other fixtures that may be in the sight line of your kitchen. You certainly don’t have to match everything together, but each fixture should compliment and flow with the others to create a cohesive look.

Landry Pendant in Matte White & Rubbed Brass

If you are looking to update your lighting please feel free to contact us.

Or better yet, come in for a visit to our showroom!