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1 DIY: Wine Glass Candle Lampshades
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2 Cool Idea: Lamp Kit Hanging Light
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3 Etsy Find: Winterberry Lampshade
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4 Love It or Hate It? Cork Lampshade
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5 Room Therapy: How Should I Use These Lampshades?
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6 Casa Quickie: It's a Hat Trick
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7 Love It or Hate It? Snowdust Lampshade
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8 Crave Worthy: Nicolette Brunklaus Large Delight Shade
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9 DIY: Ribbon Trimmed Lampshade
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10 Etsy Find: Massey and Rogers Lampshades
Anthropologie
11 Nice and New: Anthropologie Plumage Shade
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12 Before and After: Lampshade Recovery
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13 Steal of the Day: PBteen Petite Lamp Base and Shade
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14 DIY: Map Lamp
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15 Cool Idea: Embroidered Metal Lampshades
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16 Nice and New: Henry Road One-of-a-Kind Chandeliers
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17 Love It or Hate It? An Upside-Down Lampshade
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18 Inspired: Patterned Lampshade in Drag Me to Hell
Industrial design graduate Olga Kravchenko's Snowdust Lampshade is designed to celebrate dust. Dust, she says, looks best when it accumulates in a natural environment. So with its mass of branch-like shapes, the lampshade is just the thing to catch the small particles as they fall. If Swiffer is your best friend, this lamp probably won't jive with your cleaning routine. But if you're the sort Read more
If you ever find yourself with an excess of hats and lampshades, and shortage of hat stands and lamp bases, you've got an easy-peasy hat stand in the making. I usually store my knitted hats folded and stacked on a shelf in my closet, but as for my woven hats, I prefer to store them with a little structure so they don't get bent out of shape. Unfortunately though, they don't make hat stands like Read more
Do you have to tie a string around your pinky when a lightbulb goes off in your head? If I don't write my ideas down immediately, they are gone like the wind. Post-it notes are my saving grace and while I certainly stick them in odd places from time to time, this Cork Pendant Lampshade ($250) gives new meaning to a "lightbulb moment." The cork drum is intriguing, but I'm thinking it would be more Read more
Dutch design studio and shop Tas-ka sells this Birdshade ($232), which is made of paper origami cranes. I love the idea of using origami pieces to create something that's more than the sum of its parts, and the colors here are really pretty, but the sharp folds in this shade look a little abrasive to me. What do you think? Love It or Hate It? Birdshade Love it! Hate it! Read more
I spotted this photo in the portfolio of interior stylist and designer Sibella Court, and was wowed by the hanging light fixture. To me it looks like a lampshade was simply attached to a basic Lamp Cord Kit ($12), and then dangled from the molding. The shade would probably need to have a bulb clip top fitter, too. I love the juxtaposition of the lowbrow lamp cord with that debonair black Read more
I must admit that I am dying to see Drag Me to Hell. I love the premise of the film, which seems especially relevant in today's foreclosure-prone real estate market. In the film, a loan officer (Alison Lohman) evicts an old woman from her home, and is then cursed because of it. Alas, I am the biggest scaredy cat when it comes to scary movies, and I doubt I'd ever sleep again if I saw the movie. Read more
I spotted this room on Swedish real estate site Alvhem and was swept away by the table lamp flipped on its head. Here, I love it — granted, in part because the shade and base are gorgeous. I think it could definitely be executed effectively in another instance, but I can also see it failing miserably. Do you like this trick? Source Love It or Hate It? An Upside-Down Lampshade Love Read more
I've always been a super fan of Henry Road's cheerful textiles, but my trouble is that I love them all. So, I'm thinking Henry Road's quirky new One-of-a-Kind Lampshades ($175 and up) are the next best thing. These whimsical light fixtures are made with a Victorian shade wire base, covered in a wide selection of vibrant fabric remnants, and then sealed. In-stock shades are for sale, and custom Read more
When I was swinging through the San Francisco Anthropologie store recently, I was stopped in my tracks by these metal pendant lamps. We all know that objects make a bigger impression when they're arranged in multiples (and three is really a magic number when it comes to arranging), but the multiple lamps weren't what wowed me. It's the impressive embroidery on the metal shades! I'm not sure how Read more
If you have an armchair explorer in your house (you know the type, they have a whole drawer in a cabinet stuffed with maps and atlases), then I have a perfect project for that special wanderer. Chez Larsson came up with this easy and fun lampshade project that will add some topography to your living room, without putting a dent in your pocketbook. What You'll Need White lampshade Map Cutting Read more
