Astral Pendant Lights

I found these pendant lights in the Vivaterra catalog. The metal globe shade has small punctures in it to create a star burst effect - very cool. These would be great as accent lighting or over a dining table. The price is great too - $149 or $189 depending on the size you choose.

I'm not sure how they define "green", but Vivaterra has some really nice housewares and accessories - it's worth a look if you want something unique.

Pendant Light Runners Up and Alternates

These Isla pendant lights from LBL Lighting are an economic alternative to the Niche Modern pendants shown in the previous post. They only come in the round shape shown below, but it's not a true sphere so is a little eclectic. The glass is hand blown with a seeded texture, and comes in five colors. There's also a choice of hardware color, which is nice. The Niche Modern pendants start at $475, but these only cost about $260-$280. They also come in a smaller "mini pendant" size.

I also love these Soft Collection pendant lights from George Kovacs (at right and below left). They cost $600-$750 and are 17" diameter, so would make a beautiful dining table fixture.

At left and above right is the Ilu pendant from Viso, a very cool lighting manufacturer. It comes in three sizes and six colors, and costs $360-$630.

At left is the Bel Occhio pendant by Pablo Designs. It comes in orange or white and costs $380.

Pendant Lights - Again!

I've decided to use these hand blown pendants from Niche Modern in the kitchen. Instead of using five smaller pendants as I previously planned, I'm going to install three larger fixtures in three different shapes (but all the same color). I love the way these fixtures are modern and classic both, a bit like my house. I've also found it's not so easy to find light fixtures in red - my favorite color - and these come in a beautiful shade of crimson.

At left is the Pharos pendant light. Below left is the Oculo pendant light and below right is the Stargazer pendant light. These are the three shapes I am using over the kitchen island.

Below is the Minaret pendant light. I plan to use this fixture over the dining room table in the effervescent glass color (shown on the right). Because the kitchen and dining area are open to each other, I want the light fixtures to work with each other and tie the spaces together.

More Pendant Lights

Although I might be going in a different direction, I found a few more alternatives to the Bocci 28 Series Pendant Light (shown below). At left is the Bubbles Globe Pendant by Sonneman. It comes in 3 sizes - 8", 10" or 12" diameter - and ranges in price from $130-$190. It doesn't have any of the organic qualities of the 28, but as a simple glass sphere it's pretty nice.

28 Series Pendant

West Elm makes a similar fixture called the Globe Pendant (above) that is 11" in diameter. It's only $99, or you can buy them in sets of two or three as well.

The Jasper Pendant from LBL Lighting (left) is new, and has the the malleable looking form of the 28 Pendant. I think the 28 is cooler, but this one is 12" in diameter, as opposed the the 28 which is 6" round. It costs $412-$452, so isn't really cheaper than the 28, but you would probably use less of these as they are larger. Oh, and it also comes in colors!

Pendant Lights, Omer Arbel & Cool Canadian Lighting

I've been looking for pendant lights to hang over the bar area of my kitchen. At first I was thinking of doing something like the Cypree large pendant by LBL Lighting (shown at left). I was inspired by a project we did at Bohl Architects that was featured in Annapolis Home Magazine. You can see the pendant lights they chose hanging over the kitchen table on the last page of the article. The entire house is very cool and worth a look - you can see more photos here.











I also love the Capri 1 pendant by Jonathan Adler shown below.








But then I saw the 23.2 House designed by architect Omer Arbel (below) featured in Dwell Magazine. The house has a lot of innovative features (you can see more photos by clicking the link above), but I really loved the clusters of pendant lights grouped throughout the rooms.

Arbel designed these 28 Series pendant lights for his own Vancouver based company, Bocci Lighting. They are elegantly simple and eclectic all at the same time, but a little out of my price range at $460 apiece ($495 for the LED version - which I would definitely recommend if you are going to spring for these).

He has a very cool smaller pendant also, the 14 Series pendant (shown at left), but it's still $320.















Anyway, after much web searching for a similar fixture I did manage to find an alternative - the Crescent Pendant by Alico Lighting (shown below) - another Canadian company. It has some of the same qualities that I love about Arbel's fixture - an undulating round outer glass shade with an inner opal shade that shields the light bulb - and the best thing is that it's $236. I'm not positively sold yet - I need 5 pendants - so I'll be doing some more searching in the next few days.

Pocket Door Hardware & Pendant Lights

I was inspired to start my blog while researching products for my own project. I came across these posts (both from gardenopolis), and thought I could share my hours of web surfing, too. But before I share my own stuff, check out these posts and this super cool blog - it has a little of everything.


This post has some really good sources for modern door hardware - pocket door hardware.










I came across many of these same light fixtures in my own research - design inspiration: round pendant lighting.

Ideas - Pendant Lights

These pendant lights cost about $7 each from Ikea. They actually came with a plug on the end of the wire, and were meant to be plugged-in and hung from a hook. I bought white ceiling escutcheons from Home Depot, and our electrician wired the lights directly to the electrical box.

Ikea always has a large variety of inexpensive light fixtures, and a lot of times they can be modified or combined to create something unique. Check out Ikea Hackers for more inspiration.

This ceiling fixture also came from Ikea. It's almost identical to a much more expensive fixture I wanted to buy.