If you follow me on Instagram you’ll probably notice I haven’t posted many images of our homes exterior, because, until recently, it was the part we left until the end (along with our kitchen garden which you can see here) and even small things like painting our avocado green eaves and brown gutters became a non-priority (as much as I disdained them!).
I’m working on a full ‘Before and After’ post for next month, but before I do I thought I’d share a few snippets of our exterior, especially because we finally installed our new exterior barn lights!
I reached out to Barn Light Australia when I was looking for some new exterior wall lights, as the previous ones we had installed (that we brought back from Home Depot in the US after a trip to Hawaii) were a bit too cheap for my liking. They were really cute, but they just didn’t quite look right with our house and the quality just wasn’t there either, so I needed to find something else that would contrast against the house a bit more, that were also a higher quality fitting.
I’ve loved Barn Light Australia’s lights for years and often recommended them to clients or friends, but had never used them myself before.
I chose the Austin Wall Sconce, as it was a clean and simple looking fitting, but also very much that farmhouse / barn style look we were going for.
I also love the fact that they can be custom powder coated in so many different colours. We went for white as we wanted the lights to really pop against our dark, bagged brick exterior (more on that in the Before & After post next month!), but also to tie in with all our white trim.
These lights are such nice quality and the perfect size as well. Once installed we really couldn’t quite believe the difference they made and how much better the house looked!
Barn Light Australia were also so fantastic to deal with too. Top customer service, very friendly and efficient, which I really appreciate as I often have a million things on the go between work, our home renovation and juggling motherhood and family demands!
To view more of their beautiful products, you can visit their website here. Feel free to ask any questions about our lighting too!
N xo
Hi Lauren, do you take your own photograpHs? So much air aNd natural light, they (and youR home) are gorgeous! Any tips for home photography?
Hi Joss, sorry I missed this comment! Thank you so much. I definitely do take all my own photographs and really appreciate those very kind comments! Any tips? Yes, practice practice practice! It helps to have an eye for photography but this is totally something that can be learned so online courses or reading about photography will be really helpful. No need to rush out and buy fancy cameras either, as new iphone models are pretty darn good. Nicki xo
Hi nicki,
i wanted to reach out about the coloring of your home? my husband and I just purchased a split level home and I am thinking this color on the siding would be perfect with a darker multi brownish colored brick with white trim. would love your advise and expertise.
xo lauren
Hi Lauren, sorry for the delay in replying. The colour of our home is actually a tint added to an acrylic render, so I can’t give you a specific paint colour unfortunately. We have since needED more of it to do a few touch ups and had a lot of trouble colour matching it due to the nature of the product. I can give you our colour but it’s completely different to the paint colour as the render is grey so it makes the colour a lot darker and changes the actual colour. I’d go to your local paint store and ask one of the coNsultants for some selections, then do test patches, as that is REALLy the best way to determine if it will work with your home and the surroundings. Cheers, Nicki xo
Your barn lights Are gorgeous, but what really caught my eye in the first photo was the beautiful dutch door. Could you share the details of where you got it?
Hi Kelly, thank you so much! We love our dutch door although unfortunately we had this custom made locally, so it wasn’t a factory bought door. Sorry! Nicki 🙂
I wondered if it was custom made, it looks too good to be store bought! Thanks For getting back to me