Lighting Ideas: The Hallway

I'm back with my lighting ideas series for my home so far I've covered the living room, dining room, laundry/mudroom, outdoor lighting. We are in need of lighting for our entire house and I don't want to cave and throw up boob lights everywhere, after all it wasn't that long ago I removed all the boob lights one by one. Our hallway always felt poorly lit because we only had one light, so I made sure when the electricians were out to have them wire for two overhead light fixtures.  





I wanted to stay budget friendly since these lights are 'just in the hallway' and not an actual focal point in a room, I looked for lighting that was $50.00 and under. It's always interesting searching for flush mount lighting because most of it either ugly or a boob light. For our hallway lighting I'm most drawn to 3 & 4 and 5. I've recently seen 4 in person and I loved it, its classic and modern at the same time, but its at the very top of my budget so we'll see. I also like 3 but it has poor online reviews, 5 is simple and sleek. 

 What style do you prefer? Have you seen any amazing lighting ideas for hallways?

Inspiration for Our Kitchen

I've been sharing lots of updates on the exterior or our house the past few days: new front door, exterior paint job and front door color inspiration. If your new to my blog, a quick reminder our home is going under a huge rebuilding transformation after a fire to our home last July. As many of you may already know before the fire, we were in the midst of starting our kitchen transformation: just installed new counters and bought a new five burner gas range! I loved the range and I only had a chance use it a handful of times and never got a change to even blog about it. But that's life this experience has been life changing and has helped my grow as a person. 

 So now its time to move things back in side for a bit and focus on the inspiration I used for our kitchen design. Basically I wanted to design a mini dream kitchen on a mini budget. 

My Mini Dream Kitchen Wish List: White Wood Cabinets that go all the way to the ceiling. A mixture of glass door cabinets & solid cabinet doors. Stainless steal wall mount hood, White Subway tile and floating shelves.Light kitchen counters in either Solid Surface or Quartz & 'U' Shape kitchen instead of our old L shape with a floating fridge layout. Not to much to ask for, right? 

 I love glass doors in kitchens, they bounce so much light around and dress up the look of everyday dishes & glass
(via Pinterest)

I love this snapshot of this kitchen. lovely wall mount hood, subway tile that goes all the way up and floating shelves. I love the how well glass doors and floating shelves work together! I would love floating shelves for cake stands, pretty mixing bowls & cookbooks. 
(via Pinterest)

U Shape Kitchen with lots of storage and tall upper cabinets. 

(via Pinterest)

A little birdie told me our kitchen may be getting installed late this week (Friday maybe?) or early next week. I can't wait to see the kitchen all come together! 

 What's on your dream kitchen mini or large wishlist?