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white in the bathroom so it was okay to punch the color. Yellow is one of my happy colors that I bounce throughout the home. So figure out what your happy color is — even if it’s khaki! So, hopefully this will inspire you to take a few risks and have some fun with your light- ing. Please share your photos of your fabulous lighting finds. Huge hugs and happy designing! ^
play with scale and don’t be scared to go really large. Also, the bottom of the light should hang 32”-36” off your table. 4. Outside Lan- tern: I like to say these Asian pagoda sconces are one of my best Craigslist finds ever ! They are the only lights
Jennifer Bertrand is the winner of HGTV’s show “Design Star” season three, and cohost of “Real Life Design” on cravingtalk radio.com. She resides in
2. Bedroom Lighting : Please ignore the pop- corn ceiling ... remember our home is a work in progress! What this can teach you is that you can contrast styles (I have an 80s fixture with a Bali bed), or even break the planes of elements by having the light hang down into the bed space. 3. Dining Room: Oh Liberace, I promise I am not trying to copy you! I actually plan to have four lights that harmonize together into a light installation. So I am still on the search for the perfect two lights that will harmonize with these two Lucite fixtures. But remember to
on the front of our house and you can’t miss them. Don’t be scared to use a color. You don’t have to go as bold as I did, but you could do a charcoal, a linen, an apple green — whatever your heart desires! 5. Bathroom Light: This light makes me happy. It was my cost-efficient ode to Jonathan Adler’s Meurice Chandelier. When I painted this bumblebee yellow, my lovely husband thought I was nuts! But as soon as he saw it up, he loved it. I had to remind him there was no natural light shining on the light and that all of the walls were
Weatherby Lake, MO, with her lovely English husband Chris, her happy son Winston, and has big plans in life to conquer the design world … again. Email pics and questions to Jennifer jblovesdesign@gmail.com Instagram hgtvdesignstarjenniferbertrand Facebook Jennifer Oldham Bertrand Twitter jblovedesign
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