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Meyda Lighting Pianta and Sabbia Fused Glass ADA Sconces

Meyda Lighting Pianta and Sabbia are two fused glass ADA wall sconces. The sconces are featured in the firm’s Metro Fusion Family.

Italian for Sand, Sabbia (98905 pictured on right) features an exquisite design integrating Dark and Light Amber colored art glass, with a wave of Golden Jewels representing sand crystals. The sconce is 11” tall and 9” wide.

Pianta Wall Sconce (98907 pictured on the left) is designed with a wave of green glass jewels on a band of yellow, with a background of Emerald and Light Green colored art glass. The ADA sconce is 11” tall and 9” wide.

The Metro Fusion Collection is custom crafted by Meyda Lighting artisans in the firm’s manufacturing facilities in Yorkville, New York.

For more information, visit www.Meyda.com.

California Faucets Virtual Faucet Creator Online Custom Faucet Design Tool

California Faucets Virtual Faucet Creator is a new web based tool that provides anyone with the ability to design his/her own custom bathroom faucet or kitchen faucet by combining any spout style with any handle, in any of over 25 decorative finishes.

Interior designers, architects and homeowners can enjoy creating unique custom faucet designs for their home, clients and friends. You can design your custom faucet and share it via email, online or printed in Adobe PDF format. California Faucets’ flexible product line allows you to create over two million custom faucet combinations quickly and easily.

Virtual Faucet Creator’s Key features include:

• Thousands of custom faucet configurations
• Select custom spouts, handles and finishes
• Custom bathroom faucet and kitchen faucet designs may be printed, emailed or saved on-line

For more information or to use California Faucets Virtual Faucet Creator, visit www.calfaucets.com/vfcpress.

Walker Zanger Contessa Collection

Walker Zanger Contessa Collection hand-finished terra cotta tiles feature patterns that are evocative of Old World splendor, spanning Spain, Italy, China and Morocco. Yet the colors are at home in today’s world, with a graphical punch that can make a bold statement, or genuine metallic leaf imparting a luxurious shimmer.

With colors ranging from bright Mediterranean hues to subtle browns and grays, the tile designs in the Contessa Collection are perfect for a variety of palettes. Their influence is clearly antique, yet the interpretation spans contemporary tastes, replete with bold black and white tiles. The Contessa Collection capitalizes on the all-over pattern micro-trend taken from fabrics and wall coverings; and the fashion trend that incorporates metallic finishes, as is evidenced in the Contessa Collection tiles available with genuine gold and silver leaf.

With all its styles and variations, the Contessa Collection encompasses 34 choices for the discriminating homeowner, who will find the collection equally at home in a traditional or contemporary interior, gracing walls, backsplashes, wainscots or even showers.

For more information or to locate a dealer, visit www.walkerzanger.com.

Amerock Industrial Chic Collection Kitchen Decorative Hardware

Amerock Industrial Chic line of retro-inspired kitchen hardware is inspired by industrial loft aesthetics and professional kitchen design trends. The Industrial Chic line features masculine and authentic hardware within the Rochdale and Westerly collections.

Inspired by the functional forms of industrial lighting, furniture and faucets, Amerock is embracing professional kitchen design trends with its Rochdale and Westerly 34-piece line of cabinet hardware. The Rochdale collection features rivets and masculine designs on each piece creating an industrial look. The Westerly collection features sleek, modern lines with a more substantial feel.

Created as an extension of Amerock’s popular Kane & Crosley collections launched at K/BIS 2007, both collections are available in the Satin Nickel finish and the new Graphite finish offering consumers the ability to coordinate hardware and appliances throughout the home.

The Rochdale and Westerly collections both feature a variety of pulls, ranging from 3” to 18”, with the 12” and 18” sizes designed for use with appliances, large drawers and doors. The Rochdale collection also includes cup pulls in 3-inch and 96-millimeter sizes and a knob, while the Westerly collection includes two knobs. Both collections within the Industrial Chic line carry the Amerock Guardian Lifetime Guarantee.

See the Amerock Industrial Chic Collection here: Amerock Industrial Chic Collection

Meyda Lighting Marea and Il Drago Fused Glass Sconces

Meyda Lighting Marea and Il Drago fused glass wall sconces are part of the Metro Fusion Collection. Meyda Lighting is a Meyda Tiffany Company and a leading designer and manufacturer of Tiffany lamps, custom and decorative lighting.

Italian for wave, Marea Wall Sconce (98784--pictured on the left) features a contemporary clean look. This curved sconce is crafted of fused glass by the Meyda artisans and designed to meet ADA standards. Marea features a wave of light blue jewels on a background of sapphire, iridescent clear and light blue colored art glass. The sconce is 9” wide and 11” tall.

Il Drago Wall Sconce (98904--pictured on right) is Italian for The Dragon and features a dragonfly design with fused art glass in reds, ambers, clears, blues, greens and frosted glass. The curved fixture, which is 11” tall and 11” wide, offers a contemporary version of a classic design.

For more information, visit www.Meyda.com or call 800-222-4009.

W.A.C. Lighting Flava Quick Connect Glass Pendants

Pushing the boundaries of original lighting design, W.A.C. Lighting unveils Flava Quick Connect Glass Pendants. W.A.C. Lighting is a manufacturer of track, recessed, undercabinet, decorative and monorail lighting.

Flava Pendants (G936 Series) integrate an abstract profile with combinations of artistry and hues. Pendants are offered in Brilliant Red, a Black/White syrup-dripped design, and an Amber fish scale motif. Pendant hardware is offered in three metal finishes: Bronze, Chrome and Platinum.

Flava Glass Pendants use Quick Connect components to work effectively with Low Voltage Monorail, Line Voltage Flexrail1, Low Voltage and Line Voltage Tracks, Mono and Multipoints.

Flava pendants are 4 ¾” wide and 18” tall and include a Xenon Bi-Pin 50-watt lamp. W.A.C. Lighting fixtures are backed by a five year warranty.

For more information or to locate a dealer, visit www.waclighting.com or call 800-526-2588.

Rust-Oleum Glow in the Dark Luminous Latex Paint

Rust-Oleum Specialty: Glow in the Dark Luminous Latex Paint lets you accent your home décor with a touch of the unexpected – or add some fun to your next craft project.

Use Glow in the Dark Paint to create holiday decorations that glow for hours. Accent door knobs or light switches in kids’ rooms and they’ll never have trouble finding their way in the dark. Glow in the Dark paint can be used on almost any paintable surface – wood, metal, drywall, plaster, unglazed ceramic and more – so it’s the perfect accent for furniture, walls and ceilings when you want luminous results. Use it to paint model cars or to create spooky Halloween projects that will delight your neighbors and friends.

The fast-drying, easy-to-use water-based formula can be applied just like any latex paint and clean up is easy with soap and water.

Buy Rust-Oleum Glow in the Dark Luminous Latex Paint here: Rustoleum Glow in the Dark Paint - 7 Ounces

Rust-Oleum Dry Erase Paint

Store bought dry erase boards can help keep important messages in sight, but they are often short on style and offered mainly in a rectangular shape. And larger dry erase boards can be expensive. Rust-Oleum Specialty Dry Erase Paint offers a fun, easy and inexpensive alternative to the pre-purchased dry-erase board. Rust-Oleum Dry Erase Paint makes it possible to create unique writeable-erasable surfaces in any shape or any size on most paintable surfaces.

Dry Erase Paint is ideal for use on drywall, metal, Masonite, cement, wood and other surfaces, so it’s possible to create unique writable spaces on walls, doors, cabinets, toy chests, easels and more. Great for kitchens, offices, kids’ rooms, playrooms, garages, basements – any indoor space in or around the home or office – with Dry Erase Paint, you can combine fun and function by creating a message center around your kitchen telephone. Or, create an erasable learning center on a child’s desk or wall or a reminder board in the office break room. You’ll never forget an important meeting again.

The easy-to-use water-based system allows you to create a 7 foot x 7 foot dry erase surface. The low odor formula rolls on just like ordinary paint, it dries to a smooth, hard, white finish and works with any dry erase marker.

Buy Rust-Oleum Dry Erase Paint here: Rustoleum Dry Erase Paint

Rust-Oleum Chalkboard Tint Base

Who said chalkboards have to be black? Imagine giving your child a creative space that complements the colors in her room. How about creating a kitchen message center, without sacrificing the look of your décor? Colorful, functional and fun accents are quickly becoming a home decorating trend—thanks to Rust-Oleum Specialty Chalkboard Tint Base tintable chalkboard paint.

Rust-Oleum Chalkboard Tint Base makes it simple to transform surfaces around the home or office into brightly colored chalkboards for messages, artwork or educational fun. Available in 12 decorative colors, it can be easily applied to drywall, metal, wood, plaster, concrete and masonry and other paintable surfaces. Like the look of a traditional chalkboard finish? Try Rust-Oleum’s original Chalkboard Paint. It’s available in green or black. Both are low-odor, latex chalkboard formulas that offer easy soap and water clean-up.

Buy Rust-Oleum Chalkboard Paint here: Rustoleum Chalkboard Paint - 1 Quart

For more information about or to locate a dealer, visit www.rustoleum.com.

Exterior Portfolio by Crane Smart Styles Cladding

A dream home starts with a beautiful exterior that welcomes guests and shows off the personality of the home and its owners. Now choosing an exterior cladding style, texture and color has never been easier. Smart Styles by Exterior Portfolio is a group of ten coordinated exterior cladding palettes that inspires homeowners and builders to find a look they will love for years to come.

The Exterior Portfolio by Crane brand was founded on the principle that good exterior design should be available to every homeowner so they can create and enjoy the home of their dreams. To do this, homeowners can select a wide variety of styles, textures and colors from architecturally correct cladding profiles, trims and accessories from Exterior Portfolio.

Smart Styles by Exterior Portfolio is the next generation of exterior design, which goes beyond simply offering a selection of beautiful, low maintenance and long lasting exterior cladding products. Homeowners no longer need to review a complicated combination of colors and styles or be concerned about making the wrong choice. Exterior Portfolio assembled leading design consultants and residential architects to create ten individual design palettes to help homeowners identify and design their most prized asset, their home. The result is a collection of beautiful exterior design palettes, developed to ensure design accuracy, architectural detail and rich, lasting beauty.

The secret behind Smart Styles is its simplicity. Homeowners and builders do not need to be experts in design or color science. While Exterior Portfolio’s team of design professionals invested hundreds of hours into each palette, homeowners only need to order the Smart Styles Design Portfolio containing all ten Smart Styles palettes, review them and easily choose a style that will provide lasting beauty for their new or remodeled home.

The Smart Styles selection process is easy. Homeowners can choose a palette based on the style of their home (cottage, Victorian, arts & crafts, French country), geography (coastal, country, urban) or favorite color. The Smart Style collection includes: Coastal Inspiration in blue, French Country in rye, Urban Fusion in grey, Rustic Retreat in red, Old World Charm in saddle, Rugged Simplicity in brown, Cottage Romance in wheat, Arts & Crafts in clay, Earthy Elements in cypress, and Refined Sophistication in mocha. Each Smart Style palette is presented in a specialized brochure containing individual cladding details, pictures and illustrations to help homeowners achieve their desired design style. Each palette recommends two additional design combinations.

To help visualize a home featuring a Smart Styles palette, Crane has created the Exterior Portfolio Dream Designer. Homeowners can choose from more than 20 popular house designs and create their own exterior siding and trim, color and texture combinations or select one of the Smart Styles palettes. Creating and viewing the perfect home exterior design can be done quickly and easily in minutes. Once a home exterior design has been selected, it can be printed and includes a detailed product list. The Dream Designer tool can be found at http://exteriorportfolio.com/EP/Dream/Visualizer/index.aspx

Homeowners can rest assured knowing that each Smart Style portfolio recommends cladding products developed for long-lasting performance, durability and beauty. Cladding options include CraneBoard Solid Core Siding, Portsmouth Shake, Board and Batten, BellaStone, and Architectural Essentials siding accessories.

For more information or to locate a dealer, visit www.exteriorportfolio.com or call 800-366-8472.