Look! Yellow Pendant Lamp

OK. This isn't the most exciting thing ever, but one of our scores at a recent demolition sale was this little yellow pendant lamp ($5) that belonged in the previous owner's basement workshop. After cleaning it up and bringing it back to life, we decided to hang it on our enclosed porch. Not only does it look cute if we see it from outside or from inside the house, but it gives us a little light in the backyard at night. We think of it as a great "rescue item." What's your most recent rescue?

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thats awesome, love the color.

posted by plasticorange on June 23rd 2008 at 7:36am
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thats awesome, love the color

posted by plasticorange on June 23rd 2008 at 7:36am
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I had a very similar light in red in my bedroom when I was a kid. My mom had it power coated white in the '80s and I'm not sure where it went now.

posted by Cynthia in SF on June 23rd 2008 at 7:59am
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i "rescued" a nice table lamp from a yard sale for .25! It sparks when you turn it on.. so I think im going to gut an older, uglier lamp for it's non-sparking wiring and fix up the new one! hooray for 25 cent yard sales.

posted by antimatt on June 23rd 2008 at 8:24am
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That is a great lamp! Good rescue.

posted by r.b.z. on June 23rd 2008 at 12:12pm
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I found an old lead crystal lamp at the Nantucket dump that works. And I had just bought a shade at Goodwill a week before that didn't fit the lamp I bought it for and was headed back to Goodwill and it fit this "new" lamp. Talk about happy chance.

posted by Charlotte on June 23rd 2008 at 1:52pm
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Here's a cool one-nice goldenrod color!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=120308681860&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

posted by aweekinparis on September 23rd 2008 at 8:06pm
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