As we become more of a home-based society, many more of us are
pouring money into our houses with DIY renovations. Do it
yourself home improvement projects are both rewarding and
usually will give you a good return on investment should you
decide to sell or refinance your home. But you won?t need to
tear down walls, add closets or buy all new furniture to upgrade
or change the decor in your house. Often it's the little things
that count. Small changes in lighting alone can alter the look
and feel of your home or even just one room with minimal
financial investment and time. Consider going country with your
lighting! Listen, unless you're ready to spend a lot of money on
renovations (in which case you'll be changing light fixtures
anyway), you can get a lot of bang for your buck with carefully
selected decorative lighting. And if a more comfortable, home-y
feel is what you're after, there's no better way to achieve your
goal than to look to the current trend of country decorating!
The reason why this style of decorating is so popular these days
is because garden or farmhouse inspired rooms ground us in old
world values. A space where our organic bodies feel 'in touch',
our psyches feel 'safe', and stress levels drop. After all, what
is more peaceful than spending a few hours in the garden, a
weekend at the country home, or a week at the summer cottage?
Bring country decorating home to the city with country inspired
lighting! You could drive around for hours looking for antique
lighting, shop ebay for other's used lighting, or you could buy
new lights from many lighting stores that will give you the same
rustic, relaxed, retreat. Think punched tin, replications of
candle chandeliers, small lamps that depict a cowboy or horse
scene. You get the idea. Be as tacky, playful or downright
country as you like. And, for under $200 and 20 minutes of
replacement installation, you'll find that you've just
transformed a city-worn room into your own personal country
haven. Ten years or so ago, Martha Stewart brought pendant
lighting back into style using upturned garden cloches hung from
chains over bare bulbs. That can take some real hunting in the
antique shops! Thankfully pendant lighting is now available in
many shapes and sizes. And, you don't have to stick to dull or
boring. Pendants are available to look much like the old,
color-glass, hand-blown garden cloches or as punched tin - both
are very 'country' looks.
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