Designing Living Rooms With Large Chandeliers
Discover 7 living room chandelier ideas to transform luxury coastal homes. Learn how artisan-crafted lighting can enhance elegant spaces and spark inspiration.
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7 Staircase Lighting Ideas for Luxurious Homes
Discover 7 staircase lighting ideas for luxurious homes. Learn practical tips to elevate your stairway with expert decorative lighting solutions for 2025.
Designer Pendant Lights: 7 Expert Tips for Perfect Selection
Explore this designer pendant lights list with 7 expert tips to elevate your interiors. Perfect for luxury homeowners, designers, and showrooms seeking guidance.
Living Room Light Fixture Ideas for Luxury Homes
Discover 7 expert living room light fixture ideas for luxury homes. Learn practical tips to elevate your space with the best lighting solutions for elegance and style.
Luxury Lighting Styles Explained
Luxury lighting styles explained with key styles, design features, materials, customization, and installation factors in this comprehensive guide.
Handcrafted Lighting Guide
Handcrafted lighting explained with benefits, styles, artisan processes, quality comparisons, cost insights, and key reasons for luxury choices.
Decorative Pendants: Beyond the Breakfast Bar
Pendants came into their own with the advent of the open kitchen, but today these decorative and extremely practical fixtures can also enhance the aesthetic appeal of just about any room in the home. As Houzz contributor Lisa Frederick puts it, “Not…
Remodeling? Five Lighting-Related Pitfalls to Avoid
Are you including new decorative light fixtures in your remodeling project? If so, read on to avoid some common (and often very expensive) oversights. Remodeling projects pose unique challenges for lighting. Since remodels typically have to accommodate constraints imposed by…
Bulb Basics – What to Look for Today
To achieve the right lighting, you not only have to choose the right fixture for the right application but the right bulb, too. Clients often come to us with lighting dilemmas such as bulbs burning out too quickly or a…
LED Scientists Win Physics Nobel Prize
The world is now a brighter and more sustainable place thanks to three scientists who succeeded where all others failed in the field of lighting technology. Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura were awarded this year’s Nobel prize in physics for inventing the…
Materials We Love: Ecoresins
You may not have heard of ecoresin before, but you’ve most certainly seen it. This translucent co-polyester sheet material can be found almost everywhere you look. In the interior design world, it’s most often used as a decorative architectural panel that diffuses…
Plated Finishes: There’s a Better Solution
If you’ve ever wondered why Hammerton doesn’t offer chrome or other plated finishes as standard options, just google ‘metal plating facility + Superfund’ and you’ll see 71,700 reasons why. Superfund, of course, is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s program that…
Mixing Materials in Lighting Designs
At Hammerton, we’re passionate about exploring – and expanding — the boundaries of lighting design. To do this, we’re continuously broadening our palette of design elements – shape, form, composition, space, texture and, of course, materials. This show-stopping chandelier…
Organic Architecture as Inspiration
Anyone familiar with Hammerton’s design sensibility can see how architects Frank Lloyd Wright and the Greene Brothers have significantly influenced our work. This unique suspension light, crafted from artisan glass with an antique copper finish, is stunning in its symmetry and simplicity. The…
Five Decorative Lighting Mistakes to Avoid
Every year, we routinely work with hundreds of Hammerton customers on various residential and commercial design projects. And along the way, we’ve seen it all — the good, the bad and the ugly. Our attention to the details of decorative…
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