{"id":1172,"date":"2016-01-20T03:53:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T03:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:27:00","slug":"ralph-laurens-home-collection-is-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=1172","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Lauren&#8217;s Home Collection is the $&#038;#\u00a3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shopping for furniture and home fissures is a huge pain in the rear. Potter barn, Restoration Hardware, Z Gallerie, Arthaus&#8230; etc.. etc&#8230; It is really tedious.<\/p>\n<p>If you go online, you&#8217;re overwhelmed.<br \/>\nIf you go into a store, you&#8217;re bombarded with retail sales tactics.<br \/>\nIf you use a consultant, they don&#8217;t listen.<\/p>\n<p>Given all that, I&#8217;m resigned to admit that the items offered by <a href=\"http:\/\/ralphlaurenhome.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ralph Lauren Home<\/a> are exquisite. Substance, style, and effect. That&#8217;s what the brand embodies. I was blown away by the light fixtures offered by\u00a0the lighting line. Simply stunning.<\/p>\n<p>We have been searching for months to find something for our formal dining room that the &#8220;wow&#8221; factor we wanted. Well, we found it. Mind you, it costs some $, but I think it is well worth the investment. The pieces are singular, artistic and, well, &#8220;butch.&#8221; No frills here, it&#8217;s ballsy. I love it.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few examples of items we liked while shopping around Austin for light fixtures. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll agree they have great character.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1173\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_7534-e1453261789647.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1173\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1173\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_7534-e1453261789647-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Table Lamp photo\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_7534-e1453261789647-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_7534-e1453261789647-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Table Lamp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1174\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/FullSizeRender.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1174\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1174\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/FullSizeRender-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"light fixture photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/FullSizeRender-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/FullSizeRender-768x637.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/FullSizeRender-1024x850.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Light fixture with leather straps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1175\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_7532.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1175\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1175\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_7532-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"light fixture photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_7532-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_7532-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_7532-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hanging shade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shopping for furniture and home fissures is a huge pain in the rear. Potter barn, Restoration Hardware, Z Gallerie, Arthaus&#8230; etc.. etc&#8230; It is really tedious. If you go online, you&#8217;re overwhelmed. If you go into a store, you&#8217;re bombarded with retail sales tactics. If you use a consultant, they don&#8217;t listen. Given all that, I&#8217;m resigned to admit that the items offered by Ralph Lauren Home are exquisite. Substance, style, and effect. That&#8217;s what the brand embodies. I was blown away by the light fixtures offered by\u00a0the lighting line. Simply stunning. We have been searching for months to find something for our formal dining room that the &#8220;wow&#8221; factor we wanted. Well, we found it. Mind you, it costs some $, but I think it is well worth the investment. The pieces are singular, artistic and, well, &#8220;butch.&#8221; No frills here, it&#8217;s ballsy. I love it. Here are a few examples of items we liked while shopping around Austin for light fixtures. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll agree they have great character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,138,40],"tags":[284,111,283,282],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-furnishings","category-lifestyle","tag-decorating","tag-furniture","tag-home-decor","tag-ralph-lauren-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3009,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/3009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}