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| I've tried to recover lampshades. Well, sorta tried. They scare the dickens outta me, actually. Until I found barrel shaped lampshades! FOR ONE DOLLAR EACH at the Jackson Resale Factory!! Hello, easy-to-cover lampshades!! Blue and yellow stripe wasn't all that bad, for maybe a little boy's nursery or something, but since I don't have a little boy nursery in my home any longer, they needed to get recovered! More on that later..... |
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| I got this pair of A.DOR.ABLE milkglass lamps. The only paint that touched them, amazingly enough, was some silver oil based paint to cover up the dated looking dingy gold metal. |
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| Left side done, right side not. |
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I hot glued this fabric - which I had JUST enough scraps from a different project to use - around the bottom and tucked it under, and unfortunately I didn't do that with the top but made a narrow band and hot glued that on. Didn't turn out quite as smooth, so I wish I'd have gone with a nice clean finish like I did on the bottom BUT ALAS... I didn't. Now then. Anyone need a cute pair of lamps?  |
Ok, what I want to know is... how do you find time to do all these amazing things?!? It would take me probably a year to actually get around to redoing these lamps... and then a year or so once I started them until they were finished. So tell me... did you start these years ago?? ;)
ReplyDeleteLove the fabric on the lampshade.
ReplyDeleteClarabelle... ummm don't do the housework that needs to be done? haha!! And no, I usually put something out and finish it as fast as I can. Unless it's like the big non-barrel shaped shade that I started covering months ago and don't know how to so now it's just sitting there.... waiting for a light bulb to go off in my head!!
ReplyDeleteFabulous lamps! Nice work! Thanks for doing this blog. I absolutely love it!
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