Easy Lamp Update

Wynn had a basic lamp on her desk with a plain white shade. I had been staring at the shade for a while thinking of how I could update it. One day I was on the Restoration Hardware Baby and Child site and found an adorable shade on clearance for $7 and a letter ornament on sale for $.99. I purchased both of them.

I took off the plain white shade and added the pink rimmed shade from RH Baby & Child. Then I simply used some adhesive to attach the ornament to the inside of the shade and let it hang down on the shade. It is perfect because I would not be able to glue it on flat to the shade. Then I can always take off the W if I wanted to do so in the future.

 Her desk looked like this for a few minutes I think, and then Wynn sat down and covered the desk in paper and markers.. She has her favorite princess books with some elephant book ends I purchased from Home Goods. A sweet picture of Wynn when she was six months old, and then a cupcake her aunt painted for her at a pottery store.  

I just love finding things on clearance on RH Baby & Child. I am glad that I purchased this shade and ornament. It was a quick update and I had the few minutes to spare to put them together.  Thanks so much for stopping by!

Lampshade Update

About two weeks ago I headed over to Kohls to use a $10 gift card they sent for my birthday. I found this lamp on clearance and thought it would work great in my living room.  I ended up paying $13 for the lamp, which I thought was a great deal.  I thought that the shade was a little plain though.

I am still trying to learn how to use the silhouette machine, and I thought I would try and cut out something for the lampshade. The design I chose goes nicely with the pattern on my rug. I simply used the vinyl adhesive and attached it to the shade in a matter of minutes.

We made some progress in the kitchen this weekend. We still have a ways to go but at least we have agreed on a back splash idea.  Thanks to Jana from Little Web Writing Hood for doing some updates to our blog over the weekend. Hope you have a great week. 

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Goodwill Lamp Redo

My blogging friend, Amy at While Wearing Heels, had a post up the other day showing off her finds from Goodwill.  Her posts always inspired me to head on over to Goodwill on my lunch hour at work. It's right across the street from my office so it is easy to go there.  I found this brass lamp for six dollars.  I was looking for a lamp for my coworker. She was hoping to find a lamp to avoid having the overhead lighting on all day. I convinced her to let me find one and redo it for her. 

I spray painted it with some metallic silver spray paint from Lowe's outside.

I had a shade laying around, and rather than buy a new one I decided to make this one work.   After I put the shade on the lamp I realized that it needed a little something.  This lamp needed a little more bling in my opinion.

My mom had given me a ton of ribbon when she was cleaning out her craft stash, so I added some shimmery silver ribbon to the top and bottom of the shade.  I think it definitely makes the light look more fashionable. 

Can't beat the six dollar price tag for this project. I am hoping that she likes it. It's sitting in her office right now, and I can't wait for her to come in and see it.

Thanks for stopping by!

P.S. if you are looking to help out the Hurricane Sandy victims please consider sending some socks, gloves or hats to the victims through the idea of Laura at The Shed.  I am going to spend today's lunch hour heading over to the post office to mail some socks off to this great cause.

Megan

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Lamp Redo by Megan

I went shopping for a new light lamp for our 2nd bedroom a few weeks ago. I went to Goodwill first, and it was a major bust. The lamps that I was somewhat interested in redoing were more expensive than this lamp that I found at Marshall's right next door.  I had wanted a base just like this one that I could paint gray. It was a light beige before I painted it.

As you can tell the lampshade it came with was dented pretty well.  I went to the nearest associate and asked them what their best price would be on it. I had never done that before at Marshall's but with a $50 price tag I thought it wasn't really fair considering the shade. Plus, knowing this lamp would be that price in good condition at Home Goods I thought it warranted a discount.

Boy am I glad that asked! She took off 18 dollars off the price, so I ended up paying $32 for it.  I feel that it is a pretty substantial size and worth the final price offered.

I taped off the lamp, sanded it with some rough sandpaper, and then sprayed it with the same gray Valspar spray paint I've used in other projects.  I had an extra shade lying around that I purchased at Home Goods a few months back. The shade was $12 dollars. I hope to possibly recover the damaged shade that this lamp base originally came with in the future. Luckily both of these shades were similar in size. Here is the lamp after the update:

The total cost for this lamp redo was $44 dollars for the lamp and shade. Thanks for stopping by!

Megan

Lampshade Redo by Rob & Megan

I had found this lampshade at Lowe's after Christmas for$ 3.75 and it is approximately a 12 inch shade.  It originally came with a red and white plaid trim at the top and bottom, and that was why it was on clearance. It was easy to remove the trim and begin a new project.

I purchased this fabric on sale at Joann's a few weeks back. I thought it would look great on the shade. The fabric for 1 yard was $10.00 and I used about half of a yard.

I had pinned a wonderful tutorial by the The Creativity Exchange on how to recover a lampshade a while back. The tutorial is wonderful, and I was able to follow it very easily.

The first step was to trace the shape of the shade on the fabric with pencil. We flipped the fabric over and rolled the shade beginning at the seam and back around. Drawing a faint line on the fabric alongside the top first, and then rolling it again drawing a line along the bottom. The top and bottom of the shade were two different sizes. Then I cut out the fabric as you can see below.

What I did next was take the end piece and hot glue it along the seam.  Then I wrapped the fabric completely around the shade and glued the other end down as well.

Then I used hot glue to glue around the top where I left the least amount of extra fabric. It worked out better for me this way. I used clothespins to hold down the areas that I was gluing. Then I cut around the metal pieces of the shade.

I then did the same thing on the bottom working my way around and pulling the fabric tight. I was pleased with the final product considering it was my first try, and I hope to find another base at Goodwill or similar store. For this I used my lamp I already have to show you the shade on a lamp.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you had a great holiday weekend.

Lamp Shade $3.75
Fabric $10.00

Total Cost $13.75

Megan