6 Popular Modern Pendants You’ll Want To Light Up Your Space With
Thoughtfully selecting show-stopping luxury pieces that embody our clients’ personality is one of our favorite parts of the design process. One interior design trend that we always feature in our projects is statement modern pendants.
Pendants provide functional lighting and increase the uniqueness of a room by enhancing complementary finishes, textures, and colors featured in nearby accents. Read on to discover various pendants we’ve incorporated into recent client projects!
Cement Pendants Offer a Subtle Touch of Rawness to Your Space
While most can only imagine concrete lighting in an industrial style home, they actually pair well with a modern setting. Cement pendants add a subtle touch of texture and rawness to your space, creating a focal point for the room.
In our Scottsdale interior design project, Ironwood Drive, we added this elegant gray pendant to make the most of this gorgeous nook in the kitchen. The effervescence, neutral hue of this cement pendant is a welcome tone to any modern and traditional home.
If you long for statement lighting, this is the pendant for you! These show-stopping brass pendants incorporated in our Scottsdale interior design project, Trailside View, bring a show-stopping appeal to the space.
The pendants’ bold brass detailing creates subtle hues throughout the kitchen. We love how the modern, linear lines balance with banding across the diameter of the light. Caged in the center are six candelabra sockets to offset lots of light into the kitchen.
For a subtle pop of texture, consider adding linen pendants to your space. In our Scottsdale interior design project, Hidden Hills, we added white linen Heloise Pendants to create a balance between modern and traditional elements. The iron detail on the bottom of the shade creates a beautiful lightscape that elevates the kitchen. The balance between neutrals and quieter elements in this space keeps things classy and elegant!
Glass Pendants Add a Satisfying Blend of Form and Function
We can’t get over this elegant glass pendant! This light fixture creates a warm glow and a satisfying blend of form and function in this gorgeous bathroom. This glass pendant has a minimalistic, smooth, and cylindrical shape, and the beautiful smoke glass complements a variety of environments. This magnificent pendant doubles as a work of art!
Create a Timeless Look With By Mixing Black and Brass
Mixing metals creates a gorgeous outcome when done with a sense of purpose. Mixing warm metals with both cool and warm undertones can provide any space with a balanced feel.
In our Scottsdale interior design project, Fairway Drive, we added these mixed metal pendants to add a mid-century modern flair to the space. The black and brass pendants tied the space together gorgeously and added a unique element to elevate the kitchen.
Mini pendant lights add a sleek and clean appearance to just about any modern home. These pendant lights are ideal for modern homes because they combine elegance with simple design. Align these mini pendants in multiples across a table, island, counter, or bar to make a dramatic design statement.
We hope this blog post helped you gain some inspiration on which pendants you may want to style in your home! For more design trends, tips, and project reveals, subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on Instagram.
Lauren Lerner is the founder of Living With Lolo, a nationally recognized Scottsdale interior designer and an Arizona licensed general contractor. She is celebrated for creating luxury homes that are warm, livable, and deeply personal, blending thoughtful design with seamless construction and curated furnishings. Recognized as one of Arizona’s top interior designers, Lauren has worked with celebrities, athletes, and executives across the country. Her work, known for its elevated yet inviting style, has been featured in multiple national publications. Guided by the belief that great design should feel as good as it looks, Lauren transforms houses into homes that truly reflect her clients’ lives.
Looking to find your footing when it comes to home design? Rugs are one of our go-to pieces to ground and define an interior. Whether you’re wanting to connect or divide a space, rugs are great for adding intention and warmth to your home. Keep reading for a look at five rugs we recently styled in our interior design projects!
Geometric Rugs Make a Statement
An entryway is where first impressions are made, so it’s important that it sets the tone for the rest of the home. Combining modern and Moroccan, this geometric rug’s pop of pattern is the perfect way to draw guests into our Montevista Project.
We know how intimidating prints can be for homeowners, but oftentimes pattern is just what the interior needs to make a memorable statement. Featuring the same black and ivory tones found in nearby details, this geometric rug added a beautiful and balanced feel to our project’s entryway.
Bonus: the durable weave made it an ideal piece for a high-traffic space like this one!
Solid Rugs Can be Stylish without Being Boring
We’re all about incorporating color and pattern in an approachable way, like we did in our 83rd Place project. In a neutral interior like this one, a rug with a pop of color is great to style alongside quieter elements as it keeps the design interesting and eclectic without going over the top. The over-tufted dot design also adds a subtle and intriguing texture to the space. Who said solids have to be boring?
Hide Rugs are Not Going Out Style
When it came to adding sophistication and comfort to our Calle de Pompas Project, we looked no further than this cowhide rug. Its organic shape was a beautiful complement to the dining space’s small circular table. The rug’s natural texture and dark tones also added a warm and masculine touch to the interior.
Elegant Black and White Rugs are Always a Good Idea
High-contrast and high-impact color palettes are our love language, so it’s no wonder why this black and white rug was love at first sight for us. Its sleek and elegant colorway is just what our Silverleaf project’s entryway needed to draw guests in.
How to Style with a Jute Rug
We love combining chic, contemporary style with relaxed, approachable comfort. That’s why in our Ironwood Project’s primary bathroom, our goal was to create a serene, organic feel with touches of glam throughout. This textured jute rug gave us the best of both worlds! Its high contrast made a statement, while its natural texture kept the space feeling simple and grounded.
We hope this blog post helped you gain some inspiration on how to style rugs in your home! For more design trends, tips, and project reveals, subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on Instagram
Lauren Lerner is the founder of Living With Lolo, a nationally recognized Scottsdale interior designer and an Arizona licensed general contractor. She is celebrated for creating luxury homes that are warm, livable, and deeply personal, blending thoughtful design with seamless construction and curated furnishings. Recognized as one of Arizona’s top interior designers, Lauren has worked with celebrities, athletes, and executives across the country. Her work, known for its elevated yet inviting style, has been featured in multiple national publications. Guided by the belief that great design should feel as good as it looks, Lauren transforms houses into homes that truly reflect her clients’ lives.
We often call our style eclectic because we love mixing various styles! Our goal is always to create a space that is cohesive where you cannot tell you are blending different styles.
Here are our top tips for successfully mixing different décor styles together.
A modern mirror mixed with a more vintage bench, Scottsdale Interior Design
Pick a few colors + focus on them
Even if you are decorating with one style, we prefer to keep colors simple! Pick one or 2 colors only per space and use them in different ways and with different textures. Layer the colors and textures to achieve an effortless look. If you are using a coffee table that has a modern feel, pick your occasional chairs in a more contemporary feel in a similar or coordinating color. Always start with neutrals and layer your color on top.
modern farmhouse meets contemporary, Scottsdale Interior Design
Choose an inspiration piece
Start with one item you love and repeat an element in the item but by incorporating a different style. For example, If you find a sofa you love with curved legs, incorporate more curves in the lighting, coffee table, art, etc but feel free to mix up the styles. The repetition of the element will bring it all together. Focus on about 80% of your decor being from one style and 20% being from another.
a vintage bench with modern frames + lighting, Scottsdale Interior Design
Use art to help blend styles
Adding art in a contrasting style is a great way to effortlessly start blending styles in a space and to make it look cohesive. If you have a traditional space, don’t be afraid to add a more abstract contemporary piece and visa versa.
modern abstract art mixed with more traditional pieces, Scottsdale Interior Design
Mix your materials
Don’t be overly concerned with being matchy! In fact, we prefer not to be! If you are using a marble table, incorporate some vintage rattan chairs or another piece with great vintage feel and texture. Just make sure that everything repeats at least once! If you incorporate marble make sure something else in the room is marble- it can even be an accessory!
contemporary lighting and chairs with a more traditional table, Scottsdale Interior Design
What not to do
Don’t buy coordinating furniture sets
Don’t assume that you can only design your house in the style of the architecture of the home
Don’t use the same color, fabric, pattern or finish in the various pieces you chose
Don’t be afraid to take risks and think outside the box when designing your home!
Lauren Lerner is the founder of Living With Lolo, a nationally recognized Scottsdale interior designer and an Arizona licensed general contractor. She is celebrated for creating luxury homes that are warm, livable, and deeply personal, blending thoughtful design with seamless construction and curated furnishings. Recognized as one of Arizona’s top interior designers, Lauren has worked with celebrities, athletes, and executives across the country. Her work, known for its elevated yet inviting style, has been featured in multiple national publications. Guided by the belief that great design should feel as good as it looks, Lauren transforms houses into homes that truly reflect her clients’ lives.
A powder room can often be a forgotten space, however, it is a great opportunity to have some fun with design, adding a low commitment, whimsical or bold touch.
Here are some easy and creative ways to spruce up your powder room:
Wallpaper: Because a powder room is generally a smaller space, an investment in beautiful wallpaper is cost-effective, so splurging is a must. For example:
Our ‘Fresh, Fantastic and Fun on 1st Street’ powder room, golden-patterned wallpaper by Hygge and West adds a Hollywood Glam / Art Deco feel to a pint-sized powder room, complemented by brass accents in the light fixture and oversized, round mirror by Anthropologie.
Tiles:
Have fun with tiles! A fully tiled backsplash in unexpected colors and patterns adds a breath of fresh air to what could be an otherwise bland space. We absolutely love this Complementto bathroom with a delightful, large lilac scale pattern accented by sharp black hardware and a clean, light wood countertop.
Hardware:
Brightly colored bathroom hardware adds a quirky, retro, touch – such as these multi-colored, 1970s style faucets in a bathroom by Freunden von Freunden.
For additional colored bathroom faucet inspiration, check out this article by Apartment Therapy.
The most important thing to remember when designing or renovating a powder room is that it’s a perfect opportunity to branch out of your comfort zone, in a low stake but super impactful way! So GO FOR IT!
This is a guest post written by JMorris Design, a bespoke interior design studio specializing in creating signature spaces imbued with clean lines and stunning decorative personality, based in Park Slope, Brooklyn, serving the greater New York City area and beyond.
Lauren Lerner is the founder of Living With Lolo, a nationally recognized Scottsdale interior designer and an Arizona licensed general contractor. She is celebrated for creating luxury homes that are warm, livable, and deeply personal, blending thoughtful design with seamless construction and curated furnishings. Recognized as one of Arizona’s top interior designers, Lauren has worked with celebrities, athletes, and executives across the country. Her work, known for its elevated yet inviting style, has been featured in multiple national publications. Guided by the belief that great design should feel as good as it looks, Lauren transforms houses into homes that truly reflect her clients’ lives.
We can’t get enough of the remodel we did in Grayhawk and neither can you based on the responses we have has on our Instagram posts from this project!
This client is an avid baker and has a small bakery business out of her home so the kitchen was the biggest priority in the space and the rest was designed around that. She wanted to refinish her cabinets but didn’t want white so we picked a beautiful neutral gray. The backsplash + her island lighting were picked out at the very start of the project when she fell in love with them. The cement tile backsplash gives her kitchen a pop and is a strong focal point. The oversized pendant lights give the kitchen some height and interest as your eyes move up.
We chose to use a quartz countertop for its durability. You get the look of marble without the hassle of taking care of marble. It holds up to heat well + it takes the luxury feel of this kitchen up a notch.
Our client had a built-in desk and wanted to make it more unique and space she truly loved for her cookbooks and for recipe research. We added some floating shelves to display her cookbooks and we all just love how it turned out!
Lauren Lerner is the founder of Living With Lolo, a nationally recognized Scottsdale interior designer and an Arizona licensed general contractor. She is celebrated for creating luxury homes that are warm, livable, and deeply personal, blending thoughtful design with seamless construction and curated furnishings. Recognized as one of Arizona’s top interior designers, Lauren has worked with celebrities, athletes, and executives across the country. Her work, known for its elevated yet inviting style, has been featured in multiple national publications. Guided by the belief that great design should feel as good as it looks, Lauren transforms houses into homes that truly reflect her clients’ lives.
This project was so fun for us! We loved working with this family to transform an unused formal living room into a game room that they all love. We had several requirements: To make this the coolest game room around but also a space that the mom was proud to have at the front of her home that didn’t scream game room.
The home was beautiful but it had the typical Arizona brown finishes + travertine floors. Before we started on the furniture design, we gave the space a facelift with a fresh coat of paint and custom drapery. The high ceilings begged for beautiful panels all the way to the ceiling and boy did they make the space!
We created two main areas of the room, a seating area to watch games and play shuffleboard and a place to hang out and play some pool. The seating area features some updated modern traditional chairs that look as cool as they are comfy and also a Samsung picture frame tv. How cool is it that you can display art on your tv when it is not being used!?
We finished off the space by also updating and designing the entryway. We wanted to be sure to set the tone for the home when you first walk in + we love how it turned out.
Lauren Lerner is the founder of Living With Lolo, a nationally recognized Scottsdale interior designer and an Arizona licensed general contractor. She is celebrated for creating luxury homes that are warm, livable, and deeply personal, blending thoughtful design with seamless construction and curated furnishings. Recognized as one of Arizona’s top interior designers, Lauren has worked with celebrities, athletes, and executives across the country. Her work, known for its elevated yet inviting style, has been featured in multiple national publications. Guided by the belief that great design should feel as good as it looks, Lauren transforms houses into homes that truly reflect her clients’ lives.
