Kitchen Lighting design ideas
Helpful ideas and tips for creating your own kitchen lighting scheme from the lighting designers at skinflint
Lighting AdviceHallway lighting design ideas
Helpful ideas and tips for your hallway lighting scheme from the lighting designers at skinflint.
Lighting AdviceTop interiors and design blogs
At Skinflint we keep an eye on beautiful inspiring design blogs, looking for everything from furniture to textiles and we're always on the hunt for the rare and unusual.
InteriorsMinimalism in Practice
If you are looking to take your own home from maxed out to minimal, it can be difficult to decide what should stay and what should go - here are some tips.
Stuff We LoveThe Concrete apartment in Nagoya Japan
One of our recent projects is The Concrete Apartment in Nagoya, Japan: designed by Keiichi Kiriyama of Airhouse Design Office.
ArchitectureSkinflint Meets: Melin Tregwynt, Weavers and Textile Designers
We catch up with Eifion Griffiths, the third generation to run Welsh textile company, Melin Tregwynt and chat collaboration, inspiration and what it’s like to work in an 18th Century mill.
skinflint MeetsLighting in Bathrooms, understanding IP Ratings
We are often asked about bathroom lighting and IP ratings. The fact of the matter is that it's not as straightforward as I Like that light, I'll buy it for my bathroom.
Lighting AdviceI: Journalist Kate Watson-Smyth on how to by vintage lighting
Mad about the House journalist and writer Kate Watson-Smyth advises on buying vintage lighting, featuring Skinflint US traffic lights, American runway lights and vintage medical floor light.
In the PressStyle inspiration from our new collection of opaline glassware:
With the nights drawing in and shorter days just around the corner, we have put together a selection of images from our recent photoshoot to give you some styling ideas for our Autumn Winter 2016 collection of white opaline glass lights:
InteriorsNew photography at Skinflint
A selection of our latest lifestyle photography, featuring in addition to our own lights and props, papers and books by Cambridge Imprint.
InteriorsThe Pyestock story
The latest collection from the Skinflint workshop comprises entirely of lights from one specific location: The National Gas Turbine Establishment, known simply as Pyestock, it was the place the jet engine as we know it was nurtured and grew to supersonic speeds.
Stuff We LoveCockenzie in pictures
The team at Skinflint were thrilled to salvage the majority of the lights from the former power station at Cockenzie in Scotland. Here we present a small collection of images of the Power station's monumental exterior and evocative interior.
ArchitecturePirelli Factory Warehouses
Beautiful images of the derelict interior of the Pirelli Factory and warehouses in Burton On Trent.
Architecture