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  • May 13, 2021
  • Monica Duggan

We are so excited to share with you that two of our brands have made the final of the NYCxDesign awards. This is one of the biggest awards in the world. Across all sections of design from architecture, graphics, branding, product design to name just some of the sectors. There is about 60 categories in […]

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  • 2021, Awards, Blog Post, Brands, Estluz Laverd, Finalists, Lighting Design, Lighting Designers, Lighting Products, LZF, Monica Duggan, new york, NYCxDESIGN, willie duggan
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  • May 9, 2021
  • Monica Duggan

The kitchen, for me, is the heart of the home. When we were growing up, the kitchen was everything. It was the office, the dining room, the meeting room, the arguments, and the reconciliation space. To me it was and still is, the most important room in the house – I wanted to get it […]

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  • Heart of the home, Kitchen Design, Kitchen Squeeze, Lighting, lighting designer, Monica Duggan, willie duggan
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  • April 29, 2021
  • Monica Duggan

UGR is also known as unfied glare rating, this is where we get very little glare from a light fitting. When it comes to downlighting, we really want to get this glare to a minimum but this can be very difficult. This is where good lighting design can really help….as well as great products! Prolicht, […]

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  • Downlighting, Glare, Light Fitting, Lighting Company, Lighting Design, Minimal Glare, Monica Duggan, UGR, Unified Glare Rating, willie duggan
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  • April 25, 2021
  • Monica Duggan

I don’t know why exactly but I’ve always had a love for real wood floors so I did feel this was the way we would eventually go even before we went looking. When we bought our cottage, the first things I invested in were teak parquet flooring and a cast iron bath! Both of which […]

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  • Blog Post, flooring, Hard Wood Flooring, inchsawmills, Lighting, Lighting Design, Monica Duggan, newbuild, Parquet FLooring, Renovation, selfbuild, willie duggan
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  • April 11, 2021
  • Monica Duggan

I never placed any importance on windows until it came time to start choosing my own – for a while there it was pretty much all I could think about! After spending so much time living in our dark, pokey cottage before beginning the design, we knew windows would be central to opening up the […]

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  • cost, Home renovation, importance of windows, internorm, Monica Duggan, munster joinery, selfbuild, senator, timber frame, Windows
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  • March 28, 2021
  • Monica Duggan

Building Blocks I might know about light, I might think I know about interiors, but I know I do not know about the structure of a new build! This element was definitely left to my dearest husband. He spent most of his formative years working summers on building sites with Sisk. His father was a […]

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  • new build, Self build, timber frame
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