source for exterior lighting (bungalow/cottage style)????
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Comments (32)I skipped this thread, thinking, oh, I don't really live in a cottage. I am so glad I took the time this morning to read it. I love hearing the stories behind the homes. The comment about not being cottage prompted me to add mine. Our home is a late 70s typically California starter subdivision home. I did manage to get a design with only one window to the front, so I could pretend I had the craftsman bungalow I wished for. When my kids were hitting their growth spurt and there was no room in the living room for all the feet, we added our garden room. We have lived happily here for 28 years. The other day my sweetie was talking to bil and asked me, what style do we have in our home? I said, cottage? He said no. I said, craftsman? He said no. I said, lodge? He said, yeah, that's it. It isn't really of course, but we live a cottage lifestyle with a great love of the outdoors and our home is mainly decorated with twigs and pinecones and shells and rocks whatever other pretty things we find as we travel, with lots of heirloom fancy work thrown in for good measure. The front yard isn't even cottage, but we intend a major overhaul of that one of these days. I love love love the real cottages shown here, and those I've seen in other posts, but cottage is about where your heart is, right?...See MoreExterior Colors - Tudor Cottage Style
Comments (3)I like the paper craft for the main color. Both trim colors would look nice but the pumpkin would bring in the orange in the brick planter. Really cute house!...See MoreTudor Bungalow - what would you do with the exterior?
Comments (18)Why on earth paint over well built brickwork? Expensive to do and needing to be maintained forever. Just get the garden sorted out as the priority. At present you have a pretty house marooned in an empty space. It would look beautiful with a lush garden around it. If you want to pursue the "Tudor" theme, they would not have wasted their time and resources lime washing brick. Limewash is an ancient technique but was for preserving wattle and daub walls or for cleanliness inside buildings. And for heavens sake don't to be tempted to stick on false 'beams'....See Moremotion sensor exterior light for 1940 bungalow
Comments (22)Have you talked to your electrician/contractor about putting them on a timer instead? I would imagine you will have some sort of home control system in a new house? I also implore you to make sure you realize you cannot just use an LED bulb...........it has to be integrated. https://www.lampsplus.com/products/westray-11-and-one-half-inchh-black-motion-sensor-led-outdoor-wall-light__7k617.html#productDetailsSection Also as someone who has played this game of code compliance...........you can always put up cheap fixtures to pass code, then replace with fixtures you really like. that includes using something with a fluorescent just to keep the cost down. IDK what part of CA you are in but in most cases, anything within 10 miles of the ocean should look to brass or copper fixtures for longevity. I would think to put up the ones you found on sides and back as well and then you can (im pretty sure) have a company like Arroyo C. put in the photocell/ d/d sensors. Also I have personally installed both for customers before. Go to a lighting showroom, and ask about ADL parts book PS screw-in sensors will not pass code, the idea is that you cannot change it out after they leave so they want ti to be something that is built into the fixture....See Moregirl_wonder
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