Thingz Contemporary Interior Design Blog

Many houses are adorned with at least one ceiling fan. Ceiling fans are immensely practical. They are used not only for cooling purposes, but to serve as decorative pieces as well. In fact, many ceiling fan/lighting fixture combinations can function as a focal point in a room.

Check out this fabulous shot of the Celebri chandelier taken from the June 2010 issue of Phoenix Home & Garden magazine.  The Celebri is elegant and makes a statement at the same time — just the way we think contemporary lighting should!

Summer is rapidly approaching. Here is Arizona that typically means some fairly extreme temperatures which require us to do everything we can to keep cool. So set your ceiling fans for “summer mode” and enjoy the season! Don’t know what “summer mode” is? Well, read on!

From candles to gas jets, from kerosene lamps to artificial lights, portable light sources have been in use for centuries. The purpose of light, first and foremost, is utilitarian. This is why there should be a light source in every room of your house.

With great anticipation, we at Thingz await the new lighting introduction from the Dallas Lighting Market each year.  It had been a while since we have seen any great new introduction.  Thus we were totally unprepared to see all of the wonderful new lighting product introductions this year.  There are too many great new lighting options to go into in any detail in this short column. But we did want to highlight five new pendants from Tech Lighting.