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Home Matters: Lighting Helps Transform a Home
By Our Town Gwinnet Staff
Your home reflects who you are and is where you should feel your best. When designing spaces, it’s important to select pieces that evoke your personality and add interest to your surroundings. One of the biggest opportunities to define a room is through lighting, which adds touches of fashion and function.
Lighting helps pull a room aesthetic together, much like how a special accessory such as a necklace or tie elevates an outfit. Selecting lighting should be done thoughtfully, with each option complementing – not competing – with the surroundings. Lighting is meant to enhance the other elements of the room and to add a distinguished finishing touch.
If you’re considering updating your lighting, it’s important to take time to determine what you like and how that can be integrated into spaces. Every room tells a story, and the goal is for the lighting to be an extension of that tale.
To get started, ask yourself some questions: * Do you like the warmth of traditional design? * Do you lean toward clean lines of contemporary, modern forms? * Do you prefer a transitional, more eclectic approach to design? * Is there a period of time with design that is particularly appealing to you? * Is there a destination or place in the world that inspires your style preferences?
Eye-catching lighting that complements the space is a top design trend, especially as people are spending more time at home. Kohler® Lighting is continuously evolving offerings to meet the myriad design preferences homeowners have. Three new collections demonstrate how different designs can meet these varying styles.
If you like lush, vintage design:
Do you adore designs kissed with opulence and grandeur, similar to styles in the Golden Age of Hollywood throughout the 1920s to the 1940s? This decor reflected the lavish style of the film industry, embracing opulence and grandeur in designs that made a lasting impression.
The Tresdoux™ lighting collection captures the magic of this classic era and transforms it into a modern collection. The signature look features a mixture of materials and textures, pairing delicate matte ribbed-glass shades with scalloped metal details. From sconces and bath bars to chandeliers, the fixtures feel sumptuous and rich, while never overpowering the space. It’s the ideal marriage of boldness and refinement.
If you like modern style and clean lines:
Look for lighting options with distinct forms for striking elegance. For example, the Kraga™ collection offers a variety of lighting options that are a creative take on mid-century modern designs with a sophisticated twist. Each eye-catching fixture is artistically crafted utilizing curved, linear metal pieces that fit in modern and traditional spaces.
This collection of lighting is sculptural, with an elegance that is bold, yet understated. Devoid of unnecessary decorative elements, these lights rely instead on the purity of pared down form and hand-selected materials. Crafted from smooth, cast metal frames fitted with glowing, castglass, creamy white globes, each Kraga™ lighting design is an expressive work of art, with its own unique personality and individual flair.
If you like traditional, equestrian design:
If refined elegance that takes cues from nature appeals to you, look for lighting that offers a creative approach to traditional English country decor. You may be interested in the Terret™ Collection that is inspired by British equestrian design, updated through a palette of organic materials to individualize each piece.
Designs draw from early English country decor, where owners would bring the beauty of their pastoral surroundings into their interiors, blending leathers and textiles, their varied textures and tailored forms, with the rustic beauty of wrought iron, weathered wood, and glassworks. The Terret™ lighting collection reflects those ideals, evoking a gentle pastoral era, bringing the equestrian style to a contemporary audience.
Your home is your sanctuary. It’s where you work, play, and relax, and where you can feel like yourself. Lighting enhances the personality of your home and makes it as individual as you are. (BPT)
I am responsible for setting an example.
OTG: How do you give back to your community?
AD: I am a volunteer at both the Veteran’s Resource Center and at the Seeking the Right Amendable Path, or “STRAP,” program for disadvantaged youth. I also volunteer to speak at local schools.
OTG:What things are you most excited about in the future?
AD: I am excited about watching my two sons grow into their own. We are new empty nesters, and I could not be prouder of how well our sons are succeeding. I am excited about this election. While I have been actively involved in my community, this election has encouraged me to engage even more, and I have gotten to meet many people and hear their questions and concerns about our legal system.
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Angela Duncan Continued from page 10 taking the bench full time, often appearing before these two judges who served this community so well for so many years.
In addition to my trial practice, I served as a part time judge for seventeen years at various levels of court ranging from Municipal Court in several local cities to Magistrate Court. I was selected to serve as a full-time Magistrate in Gwinnett County in 2016, sitting by designation in Superior Court. I served in this capacity for four years, prior to being appointed by the governor in 2019 for my current Superior Court Division 11 position, so I am experienced in and well prepared for hearing cases in Superior Court.
OTG: What are your favorite things to do?
AD: My favorite things to do are to cook, run 5k’s, spend time with my family and my German Shepherds. We have two of them. I also love to work in my yard.
OTG: What role does community play in your life?
AD: Community is very important. I learned long ago that when someone asks, you say yes if you are able. I believe it is important to be there for your neighbor and your friends. As a leader in the community,
Protocol Films Continued from page 21 full of new adventures.”
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Staycation Continued from page 18
TV film location tours 14.Have the need for speed? Visit Atlanta Motor Speedway 15.Sports fans can catch a baseball game – Go Atlanta Braves and Go
Gwinnett Stripers
If shopping is your thing, many small towns have downtown areas and historic districts for shopping and exploring. And you can always plan a series of outings with disc golf, go kart racing, putt-putt golf, escape rooms, trivia night, I-FLY Indoor Skydiving, and more. Check local listings for venues near you and times of operation. Enjoy your staycation!
Cabinet of Curiosities Continued from page 13 of my students brought me a peacock feather from his farm to add to the cabinet because he’d heard about it in class. People started looking at the smaller things around them as well. No more passing by neat natural objects and ignoring them. People were proud to contribute – as proud as my kids were when they discovered an object on their own. And we have found the Cabinet of Curiosities to be the object of much cooler discussions than the old China set ever produced. The cabinet has a central place in our living room, and it’s by far one of our most prized possessions.
If you’re considering doing this with your kids or grandkids, here are some tips and suggestions. 1. Rule 1: All specimens must already be dead. This is non-negotiable. 2.Rule 2: Nothing can go into the cabinet that requires preserving – no liquids. Ever. 3.Make the display something permanent in a room, not a box you can put aside and forget. Use an old cabinet or invest in one from a second-hand store. The overall look adds to the feeling of pride and creates some fantastic conversations. 4.Maybe follow my father-in-law’s example and replace the glass with plexiglass. He’s the real MVP of this whole operation. 5. When you buy bottles, keep the size of the bottle mouth in mind because specimens will need to fit through that opening. Buy lots of differing heights to create a neat visual effect. 6.Neat labels can be found in the scrapbooking section of the craft store. The ones with adhesive already on them are highly suggested.
Or you can hang tags off the top of the bottle with string. 7. Keep purchased objects to a minimum. The stories behind finding them are most of the fun.
Have fun, and as the weather becomes nicer, always remember to keep an eye out for something cool!
Chef Hank Reid Continued from page 17 couldn’t get you to the Superbowl, but I got you to the State Capitol.”
His wife, Rachael, and his five grown children (two boys and triplet girls) are also a big support for Chef Hank. Three of his children help him with the day-to-day operations of the business.
As with most nonprofits, consistent funding is his biggest challenge. But he’s looking ahead and hoping to grow and to be sustainable. His vision includes a farm to help people learn to grow their own food and offer emergency shelter to help people during their time of need.
And while Chef Hank is out there supporting the residents of the county providing food, he is quick to say the support has gone both ways. He’s developed partnerships with different services in the county, and he’s experienced tremendous support from the county in general.
In her presentation at the State of the County Address, Gwinnett County Chairwoman Nicole Hendrickson said the recipients of the Standard Bearer Awards “are examples of the Gwinnett Standard – and always strive to do better for those around them.”
And perhaps that’s what makes Chef Hank so deserving of the recognition.
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