My decorators showed me ten sconces, Scott will even send me sconces, different friends will send me sconces, and then yesterday, I was like 'Oh my god, I don't want any sconces.
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Shopping Guide If you're shopping for sconces, the architect Elizabeth Roberts has a word of warning: "Sconces can really be hit or miss," she said.
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You can even do the same thing with chandelier sconces!
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The sconces and chandeliers throughout the house are mostly original.
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Mr. Perrault created new chandeliers and sconces with industrial materials.
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The downstairs was festooned with pine sconces, ornaments, and bows.
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The antique sconces are from Karla Katz Antiques in New Orleans.
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The four upstairs bedrooms have eight-foot ceilings and original sconces.
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"You want it from the sides" — from sconces, windows or lamps.
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Now we head up a stairway, past sconces she discovered in Morocco.
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Use a mix of sources — floor lamps, table lamps, sconces and overheads.
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After mixing it with resin, creating a caviarlike substance, they made sconces.
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The items include floor and table lamps, sconces and pendants, starting at $29.99.
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Up to 65% off chandeliers, sconces pendants and table lamps (through September 3).
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Plus, they're made for all fixtures, including recessed cans, table lamps and sconces.
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The crib was $700, $1,200 for sconces, a $550 lamp and a $2,500 couch.
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Lighting includes a chandelier by Oly and stairwell sconces by Vaughan Designs of London.
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The room's candelabra-style sconces were fitted with flame-tip bulbs to approximate candlelight.
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Only small flame-shaped bulbs glowed faintly in the sconces in the front hall.
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Welcome to the flattering world of frosted-glass table lamps, torchères and shaded sconces.
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"The sconces went up today," a post, featuring a glam eating area, from December says.
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Adjoining it was a cramped, impressively ugly antechamber — floral-print settee, chintzy sconces, sad carpet.
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Light sconces now adorned the women's rooms, and he put coat hooks in the stalls.
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Because they're mounted at eye level, sconces also represent an opportunity to express your style.
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There was a plain mirror over an unusable fireplace, ordinary wall sconces, off-white walls.
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As for outdoor lighting, you can find sconces, floodlights, pathway lights and stand-alone fixtures.
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Wall sconces and mirrors and large tall wooden doors, all white—those could mostly stay intact.
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Mr. Perrault's art director, Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost, created "solar" sconces that scatter light in all directions.
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Spare but sophisticated, the inn's rooms are tucked down a short hall dimly lit by sconces.
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The set is mostly burgundy, with wood-paneled walls and gold-plated lamps and wall sconces.
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In the living room, original details like coved ceilings, iron sconces and an oversize fireplace welcome guests.
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Some elements like the face's "third eye" and the Sauron-like sconces borderline on occult flavor. pic.twitter.
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In lighting, in addition to a plethora of table lamps, there are pendants, sconces and floor lamps.
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Arguably the best item of all is a set of zaftig glass sconces in a metal framework.
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As the days get shorter, outdoor sconces become increasingly important for illuminating a home's comings and goings.
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Of all the light sources in a bathroom, the sconces over the sink are the most important.
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There were also chopstick-inspired light sconces, dragon lamps, lattice-work mirrors, and artwork above the bed.
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She was laughing at her own joke, unless the bird sconces had become animated and were chirping.
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Though the chandeliers and brass sconces were salvageable, decorative plasterwork crumbled when work crews tried to remove it.
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The walls are smooth redwood panels with sculptural silver sconces; the couches are low, tufted, and lemon yellow.
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LEDs — light-emitting diodes — have given designers of lamps, chandeliers, sconces and flashlights a new world to explore.
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I climb down and step back to look at the blue tape outline balanced between the modern sconces.
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Shaded or covered sconces positioned at head height about the room will further smooth and soften your appearance.
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Because sconces are typically installed at eye level, their design can have an outsize effect on a home's appearance.
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And Olivier Abry, a lighting designer in Lyon, France, enlivens vintage décor with his own spidery sconces and lamps.
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Of course, they don't have the towering height and dazzling finish of chandeliers, or the sculptural appeal of decorative sconces.
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The other Brudnizki commissioned huge grids of backlighted colored glass and brought in mirror tiles and sparkly faceted-glass sconces.
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On the wall facing it, two sconces project an amber glow, while hospital blankets hang, ghost-like, on the adjacent walls.
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The bathrooms were resurfaced and retiled, while pewter sconces flanking some of the vanities were cleaned to remove layers of paint.
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The second-floor bathroom has a white-tiled shower and vanity top and Art Deco-style frosted-glass-and-brass sconces.
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Finishing touches include gold sconces, brass door handles custom-made in Paris, and a front door made of wood from New Guinea.
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The walls feature illustrations of furniture, including chairs and bookshelves, a fireplace, hanging art, and sconces, giving each room a distinct look.
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For "very even, shadowless light on the face," Ms. Stuart said, you'll need two sconces — one on either side of the mirror.
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The living room has eight-foot-high casement windows with bronze bolts and a Victorian reproduction bronze globe chandelier and wall sconces.
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The plain décor is modern bunkhouse: burnt orange walls, barn light sconces, black-and-white photos of ranch scenes, rough planks, coiled lariats.
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Sconces and chandeliers are being designed by Laleh Khorramian, 42, who also makes handmade garments like mommy/baby quasi-space-age resort wear.
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The two upstairs bedrooms include a master that overlooks the backyard and has wrought-iron wall sconces and a dark-wood sleigh bed.
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Strolling through the theater, they showed off phoenix sconces and dragon lanterns and a lobby wall featuring prints of patronuses (silvery animal guardians).
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The sconces flanking the mirror were flea market scores, and Ms. Haller was thrilled to uncover 100-year-old brick in the driveway.
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A new carpet will be rolled in, along with new lights and sconces, though maybe not until a few weeks after the opening.
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I had never bought sconces before, yet I figured this quest would be simple, if only because the bar was set so low.
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Among his loot: hand-painted tiles from Sicily, white crystal sconces by the Venetian craftsman Barovier&Toso and an ashtray by Gabriella Crespi.
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Plug-in wall sconces make me super happy because anyone can benefit from them including renters that aren't allowed to permanently add more lighting.
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His sculpted ornamentation appears on clocks, vases, sconces, fireplaces and candelabra, with details like furrowed brows on sea gods and intricately serrated swan beaks.
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" First stop on the tour she's giving Bravo: her great room, which showcases sconces, a fireplace and furniture that's only meant for "special moments.
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An Art Deco-style mirror found online and simple sconces from the Urban Electric Company "keep the space from feeling stuffy," Ms. Thompson said.
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Kimball House, with its vintage sconces and heart pine floors culled from a Kentucky distillery, has been featured in the magazine at least twice.
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Decorously, she requested some small things: the rolling pins that are now on display on a wall opposite the breakfast bar and two sconces.
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As a way to explore the physical nature of breast cancer, caraballo printed her tumors in 3D and then enlarged them to become the sconces.
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The railings, chandeliers and sconces were forged by blacksmiths at the John C. Campbell Folk School, an adult education center committed to preserving Appalachian traditions.
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With walls clad in golden, mirrored tile by the design company Seletti and a pair of wall sconces that cast flattering light, the bathroom gleamed.
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Now building management has asked us to remove the sconces because it says wiring in the walls is not legal in New York City buildings.
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Let There Be Light, but Let's Make Sure It's Good Light Welcome to the flattering world of frosted-glass table lamps, torchères and shaded sconces.
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On the other side of the fireplace is a sitting area with a rough wood feature wall and sconces made from refurbished barge navigation lights.
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Some sconces have opaque shades that direct light down onto house numbers and steps, while others have clear or translucent shades for a porch-wide glow.
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All of the furniture comes with the house, Ms. el-Effendi said, including the coral-laden chandeliers and sconces and the white Chinese Chippendale dining set.
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It's like being in a Manet painting: the yellow glow from sconces, tiles painted by a Tuscan artist, a clock worthy of the Gare du Nord.
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Every piece of the design felt thoughtful and deliberate, from the small red rose by the bedside, to the perfectly positioned throw blanket and crystal wall sconces.
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Chelsea, Manhattan Running electrical wiring through a wall is legal in New York City; if it weren't, there wouldn't be light switches (or sconces) on the walls.
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It hung in the first-class smoking room, which was designed to emulate fashionable gentlemen's clubs with mahogany walls inlaid with mother-of-pearl and gilded sconces.
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As the family travels from Manhattan to Long Island, we see a cadre of laborers dusting off wall sconces, polishing the parquet floors to a glassy sheen.
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INDOORS The building has hardwood floors, detailed millwork and antique lighting, including 2720s Parisian wall sconces and 2480s chandeliers that came from the governor's mansion in Alabama.
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Her decor includes a blue Chinoiserie-style wallpaper accented by splashes of orange and yellow, and a pair of shaded chrome sconces that create a moody vibe.
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In an adjoining cellar to the national monument, this one supported by wooden pillars holding classic light sconces, are row after row of wooden barrels still in use.
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The interior is rustic but bright, with an open-plan layout, marble and dark-stained hickory floors, antique iron sconces and large windows overlooking the river and forest.
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"It's important to layer the lighting in your home by incorporating pendant lighting, chandeliers, or trendy wall sconces to soften the light sources in your home," Kirk said.
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But she didn't stop there: She also used table lamps to illuminate dark corners and a pair of sconces to draw attention to a special piece of art.
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Instead, she suggested, opt for wall-mounted sconces with 75-watt bulbs installed about 66 inches off the floor, which will help cast even illumination across your face.
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As I sat at my computer, sifting through images of sconces, I filtered the vast collection by style, an option that sent me hurtling toward an identity crisis.
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She and the other team members have brought the HGTV look to their projects, with sconces and chandeliers selected for a universal appeal, rather than a regional one.
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Upstairs, the bed was made up with sumptuous French linens from the Australian brand Cultiver and framed by sconces too dim for reading, plus power and USB outlets.
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Like his East Village places, the Third Man and Edi & the Wolf, the restaurant evokes Freud's Vienna with Thonet chairs, marble-topped tables, vintage wallpaper and Art Deco sconces.
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Every evening during Breyerfest (and a few days preceding), the Clarion's faded halls—choked with buyers in the eye-straining light of failing sconces—are nearly impossible to traverse.
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The kitchen, as well as free-standing versions of the hardware and two Green River Project perforated aluminum sconces, will soon go on view at Bargo's apartment-cum-gallery.
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Lighting is a mix of new LED fixtures and antiques, including the slag glass pendant in the foyer and crystal sconces in one of two first-floor sitting rooms.
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"Sometimes I make paper cutouts the size of the intended sconces and hold them up," he said, to make sure the actual fixtures won't look too heavy or dainty.
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The sun had set, and Paisley—a vast network of squat buildings, including three recording studios, panelled in white aluminum like an office park—was illuminated by purple sconces.
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The décor was chic but minimal, with only black-and-white bedding, a gray patterned rug, two gold-toned side tables, wall sconces, and a couple of graphic art prints.
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The beautiful golden light spilling from the few bare wall sconces, the cluttered basement, and the well-appointed, lethal tool room are all as significant to the film as the characters.
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Sconces are often used in pairs, but Ms. Roberts sometimes installs a series — along a staircase or running down a hall, for example — as a design statement with a functional objective.
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"A front door in a formal period home usually has two sconces" for symmetry, Mr. Joyce said, but the entrance to a more casual or contemporary home may require only one.
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I decided earlier this year to replace my bathroom vanity lights, a pair of decades-old fluorescent sconces that gave off a shrill hum almost as irritating as their bluish hue.
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The gold sconces offer a glimmer of opulence, but the walls themselves are covered in a subdued, cream-colored wallpaper — the same wallpaper that covered them at least 250 years ago.
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Plush red upholstery, a ceiling that replicates the marquetry flooring at Versailles, gilded mirrors, sconces and rococo flourishes create an indulgent setting for cocktails by Franky Marshall, formerly of the Dead Rabbit.
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The formal dining room has a ceiling with a small dome that holds an elaborate candlelit crystal chandelier, matching the candlelit wall sconces, which the couple reserved for holidays and special occasions.
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With this new project, Saltiel was looking to marry modernity — there are Brutalist couches designed by Rick Owens and horsehair-wrapped sconces by the design studio Apparatus — with elements of traditional Mykonos hospitality.
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In his lavish interiors, Le Brun made tangible in furniture and decoration larger architectural ideas: foliage depicted in rugs and gilded sconces all scroll with the same baroque energy as the marble staircases.
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Sconces or pendants hung near eye level on either side of the mirror will provide light where it's needed, while an overhead fixture can deliver general illumination for the rest of the room.
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That night, back at my computer, I considered my options and, after double checking the measurements, settled on a pair of angular sconces that looked like they would give off plenty of light.
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White tapers burn on every table, wall sconces throw off Cognac-colored light from behind lampshades the size of teacups, a collection of thin flowery china dishes supplements the chunky white bistro ware.
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The Indiana-based furniture designer Christopher Stuart has introduced a verdigris version of his popular metal U Bench, and the trendsetting Milan-based Dimore Studio has made sconces and folding screens with the finish.
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Once inside the palazzo, you'd have to make conversation about the beautiful objects your host collected, his etched glasses, his gold sconces, or bawdy statuettes of lovers acquired from the porcelain factory in Meissen.
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And now, even the smallest snippet of information about the play — the introduction of hand-carved sconces for each of the Hogwarts houses and of new wand designs, for instance — sends the internet into ecstasy.
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Second, he became the first member of Congress to take decorating cues from Downton Abbey, with red paint, gilt sconces and old-fashioned portraits covering the walls of his House office suite on Capitol Hill.
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I prefer dusk and the windows slowly blackening, the soft orange light from the gilt sconces that masks the grease stains on the tablecloths and the calcium spots we might have missed on the wineglasses.
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Morris and Polonsky predict Europe's next trend-driven restaurant interiors might include angular Serge Mouille sconces and chrome seating, Formica counters and linoleum floors; in this context, these mundane American surfaces would likely feel modern.
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When all was said and done, among other things, they had updated the kitchen, created a closet big enough for a stroller and rerouted the electricity to allow for ceiling fixtures rather than wall sconces.
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Back in 2010 at Dargie's wedding, friends and I had marveled at the Art Deco grandeur of the downtown Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel, where we stayed: Romanesque ceiling frescos, crystal chandeliers, gilded sconces for days.
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Despite its humble recent past, the space is as grand as the rest of the building, and the company worked with Opéra management not to remotely disturb the historic locale's marble floors and enormous wall sconces.
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If your bedroom is particularly small, consider substituting sconces for table lamps and using a floating shelf instead of a side table, or place a dresser on one side and a side table on the other.
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If your bedroom is particularly small, consider substituting sconces for table lamps and using a floating shelf instead of a side table, or place a dresser on one side and a side table on the other.
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These Orlando Diaz-Azcuy-designed gold sconces were crafted through various steps: each piece of the nest-like ornament was sculpted, hand-painted and laden with sand for an extra texture before being set in place.
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Elements like a metallic mural that resembles the iconic Art Deco mural in the Empire State building, deep-mahogany wood panels, brass and gold trim, and vintage sconces give it that just-stepped-into-the-1920s feel.
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The main bathroom, which is connected to the two original bedrooms, was expanded and refurbished with white Carrara marble countertops and radiant-heated hexagonal flooring, a claw-foot tub, a walk-in shower and Pottery Barn sconces.
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The New York State Museum in Albany will outfit its new Dutch Gallery with Mr. Way's finds, including paintings of tavern scenes, green wine goblets, brass sconces decorated with cherubs, and Delft tiles depicting children at play.
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The block's corridors—the sour-cream walls lit by low-wattage sconces downy with dust, the furred, blue, perpetually damp carpeting in which shoe-print impressions dolefully lingered—evoked for Bobby a budget version of the afterlife.
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I hadn't realized that Wright's inspiration seemed to touch nearly everything there: the design of houses tucked into grassy slopes, a former bank's drive-through lanes, the prairie-style sconces in the hallways of a tiny elementary school.
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Gabriel Hendifar and Jeremy Anderson, of the New York design studio Apparatus, had been turning out their signature horsehair lighting sconces for a few years, when a horse breeder asked for one incorporating hair from her own animals.
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For a dark bedroom, she used a similar strategy, combining a central chandelier with discrete up-lights in the corners of the room, bedside lamps for reading and a pair of sconces over the fireplace opposite the bed.
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Whether or not Chip and Joanna's popularity on a national scale will continue remains to be seen, though they're still selling plenty of magazines and candles and decorative metal sconces to people thousands of miles away from Waco.
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Ms. Zamarripa, who is 26 and owns a sustainable design and gift company Lovewild Design, wanted only lamps, sconces and decorative pendant fixtures, with incandescent bulbs or warm LEDs to give the home a warmer, more welcoming glow.
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Outdoors, the facade is illuminated by two brass-plated columnar sconces that were originally designed for Dries Van Noten's Antwerp store by the lighting manufacturer DIM Atelier — a discovery Sitz made while working with another Belgian designer, Ben Storms.
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In the living room, natural and black-stained oak planks line the floor in a traditional chevron pattern, and in the kitchen, a row of four gilt sconces sit opposite custom white marble cabinetry commissioned by Humbert and Poyet.
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On set, Aniston handpicked her character's books ("100 Years of Bauhaus" on her coffee table, Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink" in her work bag), the sconces in her apartment (French modern), and her clothes (tailored; monochromatic; an occasional pop of color).
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It has a living room with a fireplace centered on two wall sconces, a large dining room with built-in cabinets, a great kitchen that I remodeled myself … and a basement, my new studio; two rooms, air conditioned, artificial light.
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Papier-mâché masks from India double as sconces, vintage Deyrolle butterflies hang framed on the walls and a black Napoleon-era globe and duo of glass domes dress up a side table — and double as a home to his hermit crab.
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If you're at Home Depot and you're remodeling your bathroom, and you've got the flooring material, the paint, the toilet, the sink, the faucet, the ceiling fan, the exhaust fan, the sconces, the towel bar, and we've gone into bath accessories.
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"They can change the vibe of the house," said Kerry Joyce, an interior designer in Los Angeles who recently refreshed the exterior of a neoclassical house he designed years ago by replacing traditional lantern-style sconces with modern, geometric ones.
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A few months ago, he woke up and decided he wanted something completely different; the room is now a serene black-and-white space decorated sparely with Naga textiles, an Ian David Baker photo and plaster shell sconces Bargo commissioned himself.
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A pair of crimson red Dmitriy & Co. Colonia chairs set the tone in the sitting room, along with an antique portrait of a French aristocrat that the couple found in Paris and now display between two dome-shaped polished nickel sconces.
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What the buyer had believed was included in the transaction — the Viking stove, the Sub-Zero refrigerator, the sconces in the living room, the fresco in the dining room, the brass carpet rods on the staircase — isn't part of the deal after all.
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But the fight over Arena Community Elementary is bigger than the school, a small building where moody sconces line the hallways, a nod to Frank Lloyd Wright, whose landmark studio Taliesin is carved into a bluff a 22016-minute drive down the road.
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Mr. Lambrecht specializes in what he calls "antiques engineering," meaning he recovers and repurposes items like a dark-oak chest that he has bleached and then painted with an imitation marble top, or sections of an old painted banister transformed into chic lamps and sconces.
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Then she outfitted the space with furnishings chosen to appeal to the children over time, including vintage twin beds, night stands from Restoration Hardware topped with Lillian August lamps, midcentury-style Cedar & Moss sconces and an industrial-style ceiling fixture from Barn Light Electric Company.
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He had penny-spaced shiplap installed over the drywall above the mantel, and hung a carved wood-and-polychrome eagle ($1,000) that he found at a local antiques store to create a focal point, framed by a pair of Thomas O'Brien sconces from Visual Comfort ($350).
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Housed in what had been one of America's first indoor car dealerships, the open kitchen looks into the former Chevy showroom, converted to a main dining room of exposed brick and board form concrete, and lit by cylindrical bamboo sconces that echo the smokestacks across the street.
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Chains, hooks, locks and horseshoes are welded into dense knottings of steel, which hang from the wall in this gallery like malevolent sconces; skeins of barbed wire stretch from one wall to the next, and are (a little melodramatically) suspended from the ceiling to form a large tent.
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But we're also witnessing a dramatic departure from the conservative mean in one notable respect: the riot of disconnected images that has defined Trump's aesthetic as president—all that goony shit-posting and ceremonial bloat and gaudy luxury, clustered together like sconces on a Mar-a-Lago wall.
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If I was to wring an ounce of spookiness from a PG-rated kids comedy starring a vampire who never bites anyone, the creaky herringbone wood floors and fake candles on wrought-iron sconces of Zabola seemed a far better ambiance for it than anything I'd find at a Transylvanian Hilton.
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Parker began experimenting with translating the drawings to clay, and the resulting dendrite-shaped sconces, blood-red side tables and lamps with branchlike protrusions topped with the vintage shades that Parker finds at antique shops and church garage sales were recently on view at the Brooklyn design showroom Love House.
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" Once the kitchen was complete, she continued, "we added cosmetic touches throughout the rest of the apartment, staining the original wood flooring black, replacing hollow with solid wood doors in the hallway, adding sconces from Restoration Hardware and dark floral wallpaper from Ellie Cashman Design — all on budget and on time.
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The ceiling is covered in a beige stucco veneziano, and here and there, nipple-like sconces shine light directly onto art from Zentner's collection, which includes a canvas by the Surrealist Max Ernst and a drawing of a woman by Balthus, hung near an assemblage of skeletal bronze Diego Giacometti furniture.
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Photographs and ephemera, art and artifacts (including some Native American stone tools) form an intricate rebus, a double self-portrait and an American history lesson rolled into one, with a thrift-store portrait of Abraham Lincoln (signed A.L.S.) flanked, as if by sconces, by two ropelike knots of yellow ceramic by Ms. Liddell.
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One tall tale claims that de Gaulle wrote his famous June 18 appeal here and even though I knew that wasn't true, the pub's old-fashioned atmosphere — with its wooden bar, paneled walls papered in black-and-white photos and low-wattage globe sconces — did make me feel like I had stepped into the 1940s.
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With a deft sense of composition, he arranged almost cinematic vignettes with a scarce amount of furniture chosen from a variety of periods: geometric brass sconces by the postwar Belgian designer Jules Wabbes, a square, patinated steel chair by the contemporary designer Franck Robichez and a creamy, undulating sofa by Pierre Paulin, originally manufactured in the late '60s.
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I set the painting against the wall with some fabric to keep it from marring the ash gray paint job, set up the ladder, climb a few steps where I measure the center of the wall, and raise the median height a bit to compensate for the console table hugging the wall between the unlit sconces.
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Sparingly appointed with Regency chairs and Art Nouveau sconces — as well as simpler pieces, including a giant copper planter designed by Uniacke and stocked with firewood — it also carries her own line of furniture and her newly launched fabric collection, which, as one might expect, is exactly what you need for modern country life: supple linens from the U.K. and mohair velvets in earth and jewel tones — and nothing more.
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Its period details — de rigueur in historical novels — dutifully create the ambience of a different time and place for tourist readers, and do so beautifully, with, for example, a variety of foodstuffs described with linguistic abundance and with other striking touches, like gold wires glinting behind a woman's teeth, moth holes in a man's wig, papered windows, "barley-sugar glass sconces," walnut ketchup and a bourdaloue, a portable chamber pot used by the incontinent Mrs.
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