Chatsworth, CA (PRWEB) August 25, 2011

LampsPlus.com, the chief online retailer of enhancing lighting and home d?cor accessories, announced its involvement with the Excellent Shepherd Charity Design Project in Los Angeles. The project benefits the Excellent Shepherd Center for homeless Women and Family, renovating rooms used as fleeting shelter by victims of domestic abuse and homelessness.

Lamps Plus donated table lamps, lighting fixtures and home furnishings to the shelter. The project renovated 30 single occupancy rooms at the shelter?s downtown place, and was managed by interior designer Vanessa De Vargas, and consultant/writer/editor Vanessa Kogevinas of the Los Angeles-based Designers Networking Group (DNG).

Each room was assigned to a local area designer, who was given one month to complete their room redesign. 10 of the rooms were completed in May, another 10 in June and the final 10 unveiled in July. Angela Hsu, Lamps Plus Vice President of Internet Marketing, noted that, ?As a company located in Los Angeles, Lamps Plus is very pleased to have been a part of this charitable project, which benefits so many women and family in our community on an ongoing footing.?

Before the room transformations, each space had linoleum floors, a desk, chair, chest of drawers, a bed, and ordinary bath area. During the renovation process, each designer was given the freedom to design and decorate their allocated room to their own liking. New rugs, bedding, wall paper and paint were installed. Donations from the lighting company included several table lamps and bathroom lighting fixtures that helped to add designer touches to each of the rooms. Talking about the products used, Susie Ho, a Los Angeles-based interior designer, who made one of the rooms, said, ?I wasn?t aware Lamps Plus had the product array that they do. I was very impressed with the product Lamps Plus carries.?

An Open House was held on the weekend of July 23rd to showcase all the new rooms. At the consequence, Vanessa De Vargas of the DNG, said, ?We couldn?t have done anything without the generous corporate help of sponsors like Lamps Plus. I can?t thank them enough for donating to our Charity Design Project and making this all possible. When you walk into each of these rooms, there?s a moral fiber of joy and delight that will really benefit the women residents.?

To qualify for the shelter, women must first dissipate several months in first-step emergency shelter accommodation while they find a job. Once they secure employment, they can go into the rooms where 30 percent of their income goes towards rent. Each resident then has up to two years to use the room while they stabilize their lives and then search for their own apartment. In the Excellent Shepherd Center’s 27 years of operation, they have impacted the lives of over 25,000 homeless women and family in the Los Angeles area.

About Lamps Plus

For over 30 years, Lamps Plus has been synonymous with excellence in the lighting retail industry. Established in 1976, Lamps Plus is the nation’s largest sphere lighting company, with over 40 superstores throughout the western United States. Collectively with their retail stores and online business, Lamps Plus serves over five million customers each year with the largest choice of functional and enhancing lighting fixtures and accessories. This choice includes hundreds of products unfilled exclusively from Lamps Plus. Air force include free in-home lighting consultations, in-store lighting seminars and installation from expert, licensed electricians. American Lighting Association certified lighting designers are unfilled to offer product recommendations and lighting advice in all our stores, by phone or online at LampsPlus.com. For more information, please friend: PR(at)LampsPlus(dot)com

About The Excellent Shepherd Center

The mission of Excellent Shepherd Center for Homeless Women & Family is to provide, with dignity and like, a continuum of care from homelessness to self-sufficiency for women and their family, through air force offered by professional and volunteer staff. For over 25 years Excellent Shepherd Center has provided food, clothing, shelter and supportive air force for homeless women and family. From mobile outreach to transitional shelter to long-term housing for mothers with disabilities, help is unfilled every step of the way. Excellent Shepherd continues to serve more than 900 women and family a year through comprehensive programs, providing long-term solutions to poverty and homelessness. For more information visit the Excellent Shepherd website.

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