The following is a paid review:

Littman Bros. Lighting offers up some very unique Bath and Vanity Lighting, as showcased on their site. They offer contemporary bath lighting and vanity lighting from manufacturers such as Besa Lighting, Forecast Lighting and Kovacs Lighting and more traditional bath lighting or transitional bath lighting from Minka Lavery, Murray Feiss, Hinkley Lighting and Designer’s Fountain.

You can purchase the lighting systems right off their website, with any major credit card. Littman Bros. have their showroom located in Schaumburg, IL:

Lighting Showroom
905 S. Roselle Rd.
Schaumburg, IL. 60193
847-895-5155
Click here for a map

If you’re not sure what you want today - at Littman Bros. website, you can develop a Lighting Wishlist - and make up your mind later. I think the only place I’ve ever developed a Wish List is on Amazon — can’t really imagine creating one for bathroom lighting - - but you might!

One of my favorites listed there are the contemporary vanity lights from Framburg and Besa Bath Lighting

Need more information before you purchase bathroom and vanity lighting? No problem - Littman Bros has an entire section of Lighting Tips and Articles for you to browse through while you make a decision.

From the Littman Bros. Website:

The Littman Brothers story began in 1979, with one small retail store in the Chicago area while importing ceiling fans and lighting fixtures from Taiwan under our own private “Littman Bros.” product label. Growing our business over the course of the last 26 years, we have evolved quite a bit. In that time we’ve expanded our company from the humble beginnings of that first store to a 10,000 square-foot custom lighting showroom along with a 20,000 square-foot warehouse and office facility. As market conditions have changed, we’ve changed with them to adapt to the needs of our customers. In 1999 we launched www.LittmanBros.com, our online showroom, to bring the selection and service of our local showroom to potential customers all over the country, as well as give our local customers the ability to shop with us easily from the comfort of their own homes.

LittmanBros.com was (and still is!) a large-scale online fan and lighting retailer well before the e-commerce shopping boom began in full force - and it has subsequently evolved into the full-service website that you enjoy today. During the past seven years we have spent a great deal of time developing relationships with our online customer base through product selection, great pricing and tremendous customer services levels (after all, that is what it’s REALLY all about). We feel that every customer should be treated professionally and enjoy their shopping experience with us. In a market with a lot of choices from which to purchase home furnishings, we constantly strive to make your shopping experience with us an enjoyable one.

The following is a paid review for Greentea Design - Kitchen Cabinetry.

If you’re like me, you look for unique and special designs for your home to make it unique. Vastly different than the usual cookie-cutter kitchen cabinet displays found in so many homes today, Greentea offers some really interesting modular units with designs that are asian inspired. The modular part is attractive to me, because you can stack them or stand them side by side - or order seperate pieces to stand alone.

Greentea can custom make pieces for you, as well - cut to your specifications and designed to match the colors that already exist in your home today. You can also order single items like islands, counters, and hanging cabinets.

Here are a few pictures of some of the items I enjoyed on their website:

I especially enjoy their pantry furniture (shown in the second picture above) because if you’re anything like me? Your pantry is a bit on the disorganized side of life - and from the looks of it, their pantry set ups are just the ticket for organizing all that… STUFF!

They also have this great collection of room dividers as well - which isn’t really directly related to kitchen cabinetry - but it could be if you were dividing your kitchen from another room - - or, even possibly using one as a very unique and distinct wall hanging. (I know - call me strange).

Their prices seem to be reasonable - if not a bit above the average of what I would expect. It’s hard to guage quality based on an internet presentation - because of that, I did search their website for client/customer testimonials and reviews, but didn’t find any listed there. It would be nice to see some statements from some real people who have ordered from them and their experience with Greentea.

From Greentea’s own website:

The guiding element behind all our furniture is flexibility – that’s why all our designs are based on stand-alone pieces that work beautifully together.

You can find out more about Greentea Design here. Learn about Greentea Design’s Satisfaction Guarentee and their 30-day Return Policy. Greentea Design’s full FAQ is located here.

Disclaimer: I have been paid to provide a review of Greentea Design - Kitchen Cabinetry by the company owner. They do not require that I provide a positive review or make any other requirements for my review. This review does not go through an editorial process - I review ‘em as I see ‘em!

Shades of Country - Designing a Life of Comfort - In answering the question “What is Country?” this lush, colorful coffee-table book offers an impressively detailed look at country style as presented by design writer and author Irvine. She breaks this particular aesthetic into six major categories: farmhouse, grand country, cozy cottage, rusticators, clean simplicity and urban arcadia. Detailed descriptions, closeup photos and Irvine’s explanations of the various shades’ relationship to personality and lifestyle (are you artistic and edgy? or stately and traditional?) offer myriad options for architecture, design and crafts that can be used to create the country look and feel that best suits a home’s inhabitants. Ideas include layered wallpaper, wall-mounted china collections, and shells used to decorate everything from a mantel to a headboard. The author’s own upstate New York country home is used as an example of comfortable yet opulent country style, as are homes in Maine, Montana and elsewhere in the U.S. A resources section provides contact information for antiques, carpet, ceramics and flooring dealers, plus a list of museum houses (nearly all are in New York) that may serve as inspiration.

Feng Shui For Dummies - Take a look around you. What do you see? Whether or not you’re aware of it, your environment profoundly affects your health, wealth, family life, relationships, and yes, even your destiny. Feng Shui (pronounced fung shway), which means wind water, is the ancient Chinese study of harmony and energy flow between you and your physical surroundings. You can enrich every aspect of your life by applying Feng Shui principles to your home (inside and out) and workplace (from window office to cubicle).

Feng Shui For Dummies is for anyone who seeks a better life. This clearly written, concise, and easy-to-understand guide can help anyone to

• Create harmony and happiness in your relationships
• Increase your prosperity
• Eliminate chronic patterns of failure, difficulty, and stress
• Energize your home or workplace
• Enjoy better health

This book shows you how to feel and access the energy of your environment (it’s easier than you may think!). Find out how your environment influences your life right now. Use the solutions in this book to overcome obstacles and enhance the positive. You’ll be sure to feel the before-and-after differences.

Feng Shui For Dummies also covers the following topics and more:

• The meaning and history of Feng Shui
• Making the most of the space in your home, both inside and outside
• Tapping into the power of the five elements
• Boosting your career
• Jazzing up your bedroom for increased health, energy, and romance
• Performing blessing ceremonies
• Cleansing and curing with meditation

Within the past 10 years, Feng Shui has gained widespread popularity in the West. Today, more and more people from all walks of life are practicing Feng Shui and experiencing the positive benefits of auspicious placement. This book shows you everything you need to know to help improve the flow of harmony, creativity, and abundance in your life.

This Old House Magazine - This Old House Magazine is a home improvement magazine bringing you innovative ideas, quality resources and expert advice. It’s like a back stage tour of the TV show millions of American’s turn to each week for explanations, ideas and inspiration.

Devoted to home improvement & automotive care. Provides home mangaers with detailed instruciton for do-it yourself projects.

If you are a fan of This Old House, then you probably want to get this magazine. If you have been watching the show for a long time (who hasn’t?) then you will feel like you are reading a magazine about family, as there is usually something in each issue from each of the show’s participants.

The magazine offers more in-depth information about the projects you see on television. A big reason to get the magazine is to learn more about the materials used in the projects and where you can get them. In addition, there are projects covered in the magazine which are not done on the television series.

Going to try and make this a regular listing here at Domesticated Diva - - our listing of favorite links that we’ve recently come across and want to share. We found most of them very fun, informative and found some GREAT stuff for the home here:

In Great Taste — Your Favorite Cooking and Kitchen Magazines and Catalogs!

The Best Gourmet Bithday Cakes at BakeMeAWish.com

Making Things Easy For My Family

Dirt Devil Floor Keeper

Save up to 70%,
Dinnerware, China, Crystal, Stemware, Flatware, more Dishes, Decor & More

DomesticBin.com

Dutch Gardens - Free Shipping on all orders!

Back To School at Home Focus

HomeVisions.com

LandscapeUSA.com

Earn Rewards for purchasing home improvement products online!

Use a pretty stencil pattern for your bathroom window to paint a pretty pattern - and give you more privacy, especially if your bathroom window is ground level.

Clean the window with ammonia and secure a stencil to the glass with quick-release tape or spray adhesive. Next, tint paint an ochre-color, using paint formulated for high-humidity rooms. Apply paint using a dabbing motion with a stipple brush. Let dry and dab on a second coat for opaqueness using a synthetic sponge.

Domesticated Diva is coming soon - keep your eyes peeled here! Covering domesticated topics from home improvement, home cleaning tips and all other sorts of tid bits interesting to women who run households, raise kids, hold down a career and sometimes find time to iron the wrinkles out of something!

Getting ready to launch this blog meant getting the fun and colorful design up and functioning first - - then installing some functional addons and scripts that will hopefully make this place run smoothly. Regular blogging to begin here soon!

In the meantime, let me introduct you to my NUMBER ONE cleaning product EVER!

I just have to say, I love Mr. Clean’s Magic Eraser. Just got done spiffing up the kitchen (I clean in order to blow off some steam) - and tried them out for the first time and just won’t ever go back, I swear. Counters, cabinets, the stove, the fridge .. and even the dirty little paw prints on the wall left by dirty kid hands.

Oh, and no - I get no compensation for the above message.. just one happy kitchen cleaner!