Guest Post: Bedside Lighting

Today's guest post is from Mari, a writer from Arcadian Lighting, and she's going to share some innovative ways to incorporate lighting into the bedroom. 

Hello, everyone! I'm Mari here from Arcadian Lighting, a site that specializes in beautiful lighting fixtures of all kinds, including some of the styles we're talking about today. I'm so excited to be visiting with you here at Innovative Interior to share a guest post about lovely bedside lighting. Today we'll focus on lights that are suitable for the bedside. Please enjoy!

 

In this lovely all white attic bedroom tiny twin pendants hang on either side of a romantic iron canopy bed. Perhaps, a bit more decorative than functional, they're still lovely bedside lights.

 

White-shaded wall fixtures provide light at the bedside in this lovely space with an appealing soft color palette. For reading, special attention should be paid to placement of wall lamps.

 

These tall clear glass lamps are perfect for reading in bed. Black trim on the pure white shades ties them in with the bedding and framed prints. A capiz shell chandelier provides soft general lighting for the room.

 

Bedside lighting can be fun as well as functional, as seen in this eclectic bedroom with a beautiful global vibe. A quirky little desk lamp brings task lighting to the bedside for working or reading in bed. I love the contrast between the light-hearted lamp design and the more formal look of silk draperies and velvet headboard.

 

Delicate little wall lamps are perfect in this French garden style bedroom. The thin curvy shapes of the lights play nicely off the heavier look of the ornate oval picture frame between them.

 

Small glass lamps are pretty here and provide ample light for moving about this stylish bedroom after dark, though they might not work for reading.

 

Twin antique brass wall sconces are not only a perfect decorative choice for this traditional bedroom, but they're functional as well—at just the right height for reading in bed.

 

In this chic bedroom at the Colony Palms Hotel, chunky black and red lamps are perfect for the room's global style. They tie together the color from the antique Suzanni on the wall and the stylish bedding. Images 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 There are no rules when it comes to bedside lighting, different types of lights find their way into today's bedroom designs. Which type is your favorite? Comment below and make sure to check out our lovely wall sconces at Arcadian Lighting, perfect way of switching it up a little.

Thanks Mari for sharing such a great post on bedside lighting! I love all the different ideas and may be trying a few of them for future projects.

Content of this post was provided Arcadian Lighting, a unique source for all your lighting needs at a great price. Make sure you check them out!

A Little Kitchen Update

Progress around my home is slow moving lately. And trying to blog about it when I finally finish a project is even slower. A couple weeks ago my husband and I took on the task of changing up our kitchen nook.

Kitchen nook = The awkward space behind our counter that is too small for anything useful.

Enter metal crates and spray paint.

Lucky for us, my husband's family farm had lots of these old metal crates lying around. We used over 30! We pressure washed off all the old grime and grease and prepped them to be painted. 10 spray cans of paint and 2 very sore fingers later, we had shiny stackable crates.

I've always wanted open storage in the kitchen and now I have it!

The best thing about this whole project is the crates are interchangeable and nothing is attached to the wall.  Meaning I can change it around or completely take the whole thing down if I get sick of it.

The Psychology of Interior Design

What does interior design mean to you? Once upon a time, home design was a mystical, highly-skilled job that was typically performed by top design experts. Today, however, more and more of us are taking up interior design as a hobby in its own right. Fans of home design not only create beautiful interiors in their own homes; they are taking their design skills to transform the interior of their friends' houses, too. But what does that say about us as people? What is it that drives people to the creative?

The answer is very close at hand - in fact, it's right inside our own heads. In a world where self-expression is often hard - and often frowned upon - home design offers an incredibly satisfying outlet. Combining colours and textures to design or re-design a tired-looking interior offers a sense of real achievement; a release from everyday life. It's often the quietest, most reserved people who fall in love with home design. For them, interior design is a perfect sounding board: a way of projecting their innermost feelings into a space that's crying out for design. Ask these people how they're feeling, and they will probably have difficulty expressing their interior feelings. But show them a bare room... and watch their design skills take flight as they express their joy, rage, sadness and hope through beautiful design and stunning interior creativity.

Interior design doesn't have to be a physical hobby, of course. Television today is packed with programmes about design. Famous experts such as Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen have become household names - and what better way to while away an evening than settling down to watch your favourite design programme? Seeing a home design expert transform a house that was once a shell offers a real escape from everyday life - not to mention giving you ideas and inspiration to re-think your own interior. Viewing a home design programme also offers an intriguing insight into the minds of the design experts themselves. Llewellyn-Bowen, for example, is obviously a home design guru, and he's also a very dramatic, flamboyant gentleman. But look carefully at his idea, and you'll see another side to him. His design shows a real insight into his clients' psyche: Llewellyn-Bowen's design is a perfect outward reflection of peoples' interior characters.

How the Right Nutrients Contribute to a General State of Well-Being

When it comes to being and staying healthy, a good workout program and a healthy diet are the primary movers and shakers, without which you will never be able to achieve that state of optimum health you are aiming for. In this article, we are mainly going to focus on Australian sports nutrition and how it can contribute to a healthier you.

When people start to seriously look into their health, it is almost always the physical aspect that they look into first. Especially if one has been living a sedentary lifestyle behind a desk for most of the day, the first change they would opt for is increasing their physical activity such as taking up running or swimming or going to the gym to work out. What is not always so obvious is the fact that diet plays just as important a role in physical fitness. It is virtually impossible to keep working out and get the results you need unless you also start making changes to your diet. In this article, we will focus on sports nutrition and the role it plays in helping you become healthier.

There are many specific benefits you can get from proper nutrition that will definitely contribute to your general state of well-being. Even in your most sedentary state, it is very important that you are eating healthily and taking the right kind of nutrients. More often than not, we are not actively doing our part to know what goes into our food. The ideal solution is to start preparing your own food so that you know what you are taking in. However, this involves a drastic change of lifestyle that not everyone is ready to undertake. If you are mostly dining out or having takeaways instead of cooking your own food, you may want to supplement your balanced diet with essential vitamins and minerals, just to cover your bases.

In gym workout regimens, a fitness program being advocated by your personal trainer almost always incorporates a diet regimen that specifically targets certain goals. In most lean muscle-building workouts, the intake of the right kind of nutrients is encouraged, as this will help you sustain through the more rigorous activities you are doing. For those who need to lose weight at the same time, they may also need to focus on limiting fats as well. Although most nutritionists prefer a change in diet as the optimal option, others find that taking supplements in the form of pills or shakes may be the more feasible one.

Another aspect that right nutrition can specifically address is the need for your body to repair and recover from your chosen physical activity. For sure, you will have consumed a lot of energy, and the muscles you are working on become stressed to the point of damage. One of the advocacies of sports nutrition is the incorporation of more protein in the diet. The amount of protein recommended for intense activities is so high that the nutrients you get from your regular meals might not be sufficient. For you to receive the same amount and quality of proteins in shake form, you will have to overload with huge meat portions. For most people, this is virtually impossible because the stomach can only handle so much food at once. For the purpose of convenience and instant absorption, drinking a protein shake or eating a protein bar with all the proteins you need may be the better option.

So, whether you live a sedentary life or a very intensely active one, the right nutrition is always a given. Even if your physical goals are not achieved, when you are taking in the right nutrients, you will feel so much better in your own body, which is all that really matters in the end.

Anallysis technical exchange your money in a simple and more

If you have a good chance to make money in the stock market technical analysis to streamline the way. Principles are easily applicable to common stock or options trade.

1. 2-3, using technical indicators.

Choose from hundreds of technical indicators. RSI or MACD Bollinger Bands for conflict, may work against all the indicators you are using. You can see all through the analysis of stroke or if there is no need to create.

We just really, really comfortable and everything was so different that the neglect of some of the selection. This alerts the center to help investors determine whether the purchase or sale. Everyone has their own way, however, says the same thing. If it is pleasant to work so that additional disposable lint over to the main door.

2. Technical analysis of a business plan to create an easy to follow.

Any plan, business forms should be simple. The best plan to set in motion occurs, and how they work, must also identify the major events in order to know when to use their weapons to take on each trade.

A concert of his work, or b) market trends and indicators to identify the most important events in the best use of them, c) to determine how to learn), and that the form of D in), trade / looking for another chance to take effect.

3. Has an outlet to create a business before.

Prudent investors will always have an exit plan before trading. For sale or trade to stop before the start of the adjustment strategy, and considered.

If you are day trading system for trading, according to those who do not want to be stuck at all hours, then the necessary steps to reach this goal. May also decide to stay on your computer, you should always protect the place from where the decisions need to be a sudden quick movement.

It is a natural level of support it is recommended that a stop loss of some of the points. Market faster, because the volatility of the end of the stands are not recommended.

4. To check the back of your business plan.

After a solid business plan in place that you can be tested. Staying in the market due to the random nature of any company that provides error testing. Therefore, it is not guaranteed to succeed in your business plan, a number of tests in an environment of one of the most important market.

Profitability of your business plan does not guarantee positive results, but certainly do not have a better chance. However, most of the business plan for his work on the new test results can not guarantee that.

At the time of their examination, the markets of all kinds (accidents, high inflation, stagflation periods, periods of deflation, global events, to implement the project across the boom times of the various centers, etc.). To engage in a solid plan that you can be sure to check in all cases.

5. Paper trading.

To work with in your newly created, we see that action. Relative to its business strategy to identify, and operate with due diligence kaibiduvante, using your favorite magazine and software sharing.

This is a simulation of real life business is located, is important to play in your paper trading account. Are you sure you do not trade with money, then there is no conversation at all. If you decide to trade their own money on useless affairs in your mind as to rotate the head.

Plan well and do not reject it. If you work on your technique and to verify that you are adjusting to this major. Before you start using real money, at this point it is possible to make adjustments. When you are trading real money does not mean you can not make the adjustment. At this point, the best way to make the adjustment.

6. Trust in your technical analysis.

Once the testing phase of the project through to your business, you can manually start a business of your money. All investors have the same feelings that you have not introduced this step. Fortunately for us, we are not robots and we do it without any confusion can be made in our operations.

About the discharge, if so, see 1-2 business opportunities and operations. See the sacrifices of the plane and through their actions. As fast as you negotiate the best feelings of separation.

Once you have done your work, to a later conference. Either, a little scrap to adjust your plan, or continue to use.

And speed the process of technical analysis.