Wall Light Sconces Titan by Hinkley Outdoor Lighting

Did you watch “Clash of the Titans”? Do you prefer the Sam Worthington and Liam Neeson 2010 version or the one with the mechanical owl Bubo of 1981?

I prefer the kitschy 1981 version. I am also curious about the current movie called “The Immortals.” However, Details Magazine for men, has an interesting article this month about the possible effects of such Greek god ideals on the body images of men. You can avoid the debate entirely by sticking with home decor with Neoclassical architecture rather than statues of the human form.

If your residential architecture is Greek revival, you can still decorate your outdoor lighting with contemporary sconces. It would be especially humorous if you used Titan, a reference to Greek Myth. Titan by Hinkley Outdoor Lighting can be purchased as an energy saving outdoor fluorescent lighting fixture. All model come with organic ribbed etched glass shades. You can choose Buckeye, Titanium or Hematite finishes.

Imagine the gigantic creatures of Mount Othrys in a battle against the gods of Mount Olympus! Not everyone has such a conversation piece on their garden porch. Did you know that Titans Cronus and Rhea are parents of Zeus? Have fun with your contemporary outdoor sconces and select Titan to welcome guests to a Mediterranean-style dinner party this New Year’s Eve!

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Hanna Outdoor Lighting Sconces by Hinkley Outdoor Lighting

Have you noticed that Thanksgiving isn’t here yet but bloggers are announcing their bucket lists and new year resolutions? Seeing all these wish lists have influenced me to see Hanna by Hinkley Outdoor Lighting as a lovely shape for a time capsule. I also have bucket lists on the brain. Hanna outdoor wall sconces can light up the night without draining the money out of your wallet. Its energy saving features are due to its energy efficient lighting technology. The large outdoor wall light in metro bronze is made out of solid brass. The 1-Light transitional wall lantern  is 19.5″ high and 9″ wide.

I must ask. What new things would you like to try in the upcoming year? Skydiving like in the background? Radically changing your front yard? Recontacting your stepdaughter? Making amends with a childhood friend?

Even the most superficial seeming changes such as changing the style of your home decor can mean something big. Maybe you are planning to choose Hanna for your porch. Does that mean that you are leaving traditional decor for transitional exterior wall sconces? That’s not a bad thing but it may be bigger transformation for you than you think. Just as traditional decor fans have a certain philosophy about living space so do contemporary designers. You may be in for a radical new way of seeing the world.

My wish list? I’ll share one. In anticipation of the new year, I’ve reached out to my biological mom. I invited her to do a 5k with me for my next birthday. Let’s see if she replies.

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Vintage Outdoor Lights Brynmar Mediterranean by Hinkley Outdoor Lighting

Jack Warner of Warner Bros. fame decorated much of his home in, what Blogger Laura Ingalls Gunn of Decor to Adore calls, Hollywood Regency. Interior designer William Haines recommended Georgian style to many Hollywood clients in the 1930s and 1940s. Why do I bring this up? Brynmar outdoor lighting family by Hinkley Outdoor Lighting is offered in Regency Bronze finish.

I admit that I am jealous of Jack Warner. I love his Regency-style armchairs that I spotted in Architectural Digest’s Hollywood at Home. He had 48 of these stately chairs! He also had Salvador Dali paint a portrait of his wife. I am turning green. But back to the Brynmar collection of outdoor wall lights, post lights and hanging pendant lights. The amber linen glass and bronze finish would blend well in Victorian neighborhoods and settings with Mediterranean home decor. Most light fixtures in the family are 27″ high and 12″wide except for one wall light that is 20.25″ high and 9.5″ wide.

These vintage outdoor lights are available with incandescent lamping or as energy saving outdoor fluorescent lights. My favorite outdoor wall sconce is the smaller wall light. I like the Mediterranean outdoor wall lights with diminutive statures. I would choose it for my balcony light so that I wouldn’t have to bring my LED candle to my deck to water my yellow roses at night. I wouldn’t even have to feel guilty about contributing to urban glare. The Brynmar family has dark sky compliant models that meet California’s Title 24 requirements.

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San Clemente Traditional Outdoor Lights by Hinkley Outdoor Lighting

Although I am listening to Spanish guitar as I write this blog post, I’m not really feeling strong San Clemente influences in this lighting family. However, I will give myself a reading assignment. Sadly, I have not read Jose Echegaray’s plays, The Avenger’s Wife, Conflict of Duties and Madman or Saint. Echegaray was born in Madrid. He was a professor of Greek, a student of engineering and economics. He was also a playwright. His plays won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1904.

I admit I am deficient in my knowledge of  literature from Spain. I am only familiar with Spanish speaking writers from Argentina and Colombia such as Borges and Marquez. Shame on me. In my opinion, this museum black finish set of energy saving fluorescent outdoor lighting by Hinkley Outdoor Lighting has more in common with traditional lighting than Mediterranean or Rustic lights. The simple ironwork is not as ornate as Mediterranean scrollwork or as weathered as rustic outdoor lighting. It is too Old World to be transitional. It’s also too clean in design to be Victorian lighting. Maybe my evaluation of this lighting family will change as I study more literature about the art and culture of Spain.

If I had to choose, I’d say that Hinkley Outdoor Lighting’s San Clemente shares more in common with the Cathedral of Leon or Toledo than the 13th century Cathedral of Avila in Spain. However, San Clemente traditional outdoor lights do show Gothic architecture influences. You can see the dark finish and clear glass traditional style especially in the outdoor wall lantern. Select this family of traditional outdoor lighting fixtures with olde iron post lights. You can also ask for bronze finish instead of museum black.

This traditional outdoor lighting family of energy efficient post lights, wall sconces, and hanging ceiling pendant lights has sparked curiosity in me. What were the most significant art and design movements in Spain from the 13th century to the Romantic period? Because of Hinkley Outdoor Lighting’s San Clemente, I must find out. I’ll hit the library. I hope you’ll hit the lighting store to order a San Clemente energy saving dark sky complaint light today.

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Nautical Exterior Lights Rustic Cape Cod by Hinkley Lighting

Imagine a bowl of hot cioppino soup with crunchy garlic croutons. Picture yourself sitting at a rustic seafood restaurant in Cape Cod. Walk to Marconi beach to watch the seals. You don’t mind the sandy grit that sticks to your shoes. Nautical outdoor lights guide you back to your cottage.

Decorate your porch with nautical Cape Cod outdoor lights by Hinkley Outdoor Lighting and recreate this shoreline fantasy in the middle of the week! Choose Sienna bronze finish to complement the clear seedy glass of these exterior rustic lighting fixtures. Imagine the sounds of the beach and the sight of gray driftwood as piping plovers pick at marine worms.

You lean against powdery sand dunes and take in the horizon. Install the rustic Cape Cod post light by Hinkley Outdoor Lighting. It stands 23.75″ high and 14″wide. Many of the Cape Cod family of outdoor rustic lighting fixtures meet energy saving fluorescent outdoor lighting and dark sky requirements. Dark sky compliant means that these nautical lamps have a reflector that minimizes glare upwards to the evening sky. You can select incandescent or fluorescent energy efficient lighting models. Pretend black banded shorebirds twitter at your feet as you re-read Moby Dick by Herman Melville.

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Vintage Outdoor Lighting Victorian Mediterranean by Troy Lighting

My heart flutters when I find vintage outdoor lights but not for reasons you might think.  Usually Victorian vintage lighting seems to neglect the Mediterranean home decor preferences of men. Not this collection!

Troy Outdoor Lighting’s Potter family Victorian outdoor lighting hints of the dynamic second English Renaissance! How can I tell? When you study the quiet design of the Potter Victorian post light, you’ll see that it takes an energy efficient light, fluorescent bulbs. The Victorian Great Exhibition in 1851 boasted technological advances and industrial machinery of the time. This energy saver follows that innovative tradition. Men rejoice!

This is my favorite masculine Mediterranean Victorian family of lights. Some call the Victorian era the beginning of modern times! In other words, Victorian design is not just for lace-loving women. Men can select Victorian outdoor lighting too! Let me explain. Though the scroll accents of this Victorian Mediterranean wall lighting may signal prudishness to contemporary viewers, this period was the start of radical ideas in science and politics. Murmurs of feminism were beginning in England and America even as women wore uncomfortable corsets.

See the Mediterranean decor of Troy Lighting’s Potter hanging wall light and you’ll observe a dignified lighting fixture. Notice that the whole Potter family of lights, not just the 11”wide and 33 ¼” high wall lights, features both gothic and medieval overtones. Did you know that this light is hand-forged in the fired iron finish of Victorian style? You don’t need to graduate from an exclusive private school such as Eton or Harrow to know that this vintage outdoor lighting alludes to the time period of Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Karl Marx and Charles Darwin. Add Sigmund Freud to the mix and you’ll see that though the Mediterranean outdoor lighting of the time was graceful, the period was full of exciting events and ideas!

Purchase the Potter family of outdoor lights with incandescent lights for its attractiveness or fluorescent energy saving features. The wall light is convertible. You can choose long tail or short tail. Amber mist glass glows from the fluorescent model and seeded glass protects the incandescent light.  Sit under these lights on a warm evening and study the rise of the Victorian middle class and upheaval of aristocracy by the newly moneyed commercial merchants.  A classic work of literature such as Alice Through the Looking Glass will expand your mind too.

You’ll be refreshed to learn that the Victorian era was not a closed-minded time in history. I also hope you are convinced that Victorian decor is for dudes too! You’ll have a rich reminder of history to light your way home because of Troy Lighting.

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French Quarter Outdoor Lighting by Troy Lighting

Do you prefer an abundance of lace in your home decor? Do you display pitchers of irises and silver picture frames in your house? If so, you may have a bug. The Victorian decor bug! Troy Outdoor Lighting French Quarter has your fix. Indulge in sweet Victorian outdoor lighting. It’s so coy that it’ll make you blush!

This is my favorite Victorian Mediterranean hybrid. French Quarter offers Mediterranean French outdoor post lighting, wall lights and hanging pendant lamps in an aged pewter finish. This drool-worthy finish is as rich as a the Medieval tapestry reproduction that you have displayed in your guest room!

If every surface of your furniture is covered in lace, shrouded in skirts and sprinkled with knickknacks, then this is the outdoor lighting for you. Think Eliza Doolittle of “My Fair Lady”! Or if you prefer, “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw. Either way, I know you have a bonnet in the closet and white gloves hidden in a vanity drawer.

A Victorian gentleman or gentlewoman will enjoy the hand-forged iron and frosted glass of these lamps. Energy efficient lighting options such as fluorescent lighting features are available too. Clear glass casing for Mediterranean outdoor lighting is featured for such models. The metal scrollwork of the vintage outdoor wall light will enchant you! It curls like flowers on trellises. Select the hanging outdoor light that is 10″ wide by 29″ high. The lantern of the post light measures 10″ wide by 30″ high.

Decorate your home with these Victorian outdoor lights and I might accept an invitation to tea! We can wear our biggest hats together!

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Troy Lighting Raleigh Nautical Lighting

Are you experiencing the doldrums? Do you daydream about delivering a broadside? Do you like the cut of Sir Walter Raleigh’s jib? If so, then consider Troy Outdoor Lighting. Its Raleigh family is an awesome tribute to nautical lighting! The old silver finish  and beams from these outdoor fluorescent lights will keep you focused and prevent you from being blown off course. You can dream of exploration without leaving your front stoop!

Maybe you don’t have your own merchant ship but why not imagine yourself battling privateers? Imagine firing canons on a war ship. Add nautical outdoor lights to your interior or exterior setting with Troy Lighting Raleigh dimmable LEDs. The retro pendant lighting uses 1.2 W LEDs and only consumes 5.5 W. Select the Raleigh hanging outdoor light to highlight a wooden deck in your backyard. Troy Lighting offers hanging lights that use 26W GU24 Compact Fluorescent bulbs too. For example, the Troy Raleigh Outdoor Pendant Lamp accepts fluorescent or incandescent bulbs.

You don’t have to use a spyglass or wear a wooden peg leg to love this nautical collection by Troy Lighting. Let your imagination run free and decorate your home tastefully with this vintage outdoor lighting. You are invited to sing salty sea shanties! It’s up to you if you want to wear the Elizabethan frills.

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Outdoor Lighting Energy Saving Sorrento by Hinkley Lighting

Transport yourself to the Victorian Era with Hinkley Lighting’s Sorrento family. Hinkley Lighting presents refined Sorrento post lights, wall lights and hanging outdoor lighting in a Mediterranean style. Imagine hospitality in a world of abundant lace and silver framed photography. Floral elements and hand-applied copper highlights in cast aluminum.

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Zenith Outdoor Wall Lights by Maxim Lighting

The future is here and Maxim Lighting knows all about it. Their brand new Zenith outdoor lights really have a sense of character with their minimalist, geometric shapes and sleek finish–definitely a futuristic vibe perfect for modern homes and commercial or retail settings.

Maxim Lighting Zenith Outdoor Lights

Contemporary outdoor lighting has a big range of styles but sometimes, “less is more” really is a true statement. These contemporary, European-designed fluorescent outdoor fixtures are a perfect combination of energy efficiency and durability. The Zenith EE collection features die-cast aluminum metal frames painted with a polyurethane powder coat, finished in your choice of Platinum or Architectural Bronze.

Outdoor Lighting | Zenith Outdoor Wall Lights

As far as outdoor wall lighting goes, Zenith really shines. Their extremely durable white acrylic lens diffuses the light nicely and creates a soft illumination on your porch or patio. The Zenith fluorescent light source gives the ultimate in energy saving and long life, as well, lasting up to as many as 10,000 hours. Plus, many Zenith EE fixtures can be used interior for corridors and hallways with ADA compliance.

Zenith Outdoor Lights with Platinum Finish

The Zenith lights are also amazing because they come in energy saving outdoor fluorescent lighting models. Measuring roughly 15″ in diameter and extending from the wall by a mere 4.5″, these outdoor lights will save you an impressive amount on your electric bill and due Mother Nature a big favor in terms of sustainability, without skimping on your outdoor contemporary lighting style.

Zenith Outdoor Wall Lights by Maxim Lighting

These Zenith outdoor lights are so new we are still in the process of uploading them to the BrilliantOutdoors.com website, so keep your eyes peeled for these contemporary lighting beauties in the Maxim Lighting section of our frequently updated site.

Zenith | Outdoor Fluorescent Lighting by Maxim

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