Lighting on the Wall

My sister, Katharine, was finally triumphant in finding sconces for the dining room/ living room area in her new condo. The search was not easy. “It is SO hard to find sconces that don’t look like bathroom fixtures or look like they were stolen from an old formal castle,” she writes in an e-mail. Here are the ones she finally settled on, from Littman Bros.:

I think they will get along famously with her new dining table from BoConcept:

Katharine looked for two months before settling on the right sconces. So that got me thinking a LOT about the topic, especially since the dreary brass sconces in my own living room badly need replacing. Keep reading for some inspiring (non-bathroom, non-castle) sconces I have came across.