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Too Cool!

I don't care for her work on the whole, but that is a neat shade.

It looks good with the lamp on but what does the shade look like when it is off?

I am always suspicious about any crafting project on HGTV (or any room makeover for that matter). They are always styled for the camera and doubt they look that good in person.

That show is such a joke.

I second COMICGEEK's

"It looks good with the lamp on but what does the shade look like when it is off?"

That's a pretty cool idea.

As a complement to my comment on the other HGTV post, I find this more achieved and neat than the glued washers.

Wow - I like this alot - and I think I have the perfect lampshade for this...
(a dumpster-find)

It's a great idea, but I agree that the white felt probably looks ugly when it is turned off. I would use handmade paper, stiff ribbon, or those thin cork sheets.

Geez, cut a Sistah some slack.

In fact, this particular lamp looked better with the light off. I do agree that there are a lot of choices other than wool felt that would work. But it worked worked very well in that room. Whatever you use would have to be fairly durable. I love the idea of handmade paper, but I doubt that it would hold up very long. Leather might be a good choice.

I really enjoy the DIY projects that Kim Myles implements. Design Star should have ended with her. Jennifer just doesn't have the talent or personality like Kim or David Bromstead to pull of neat projects like this lamp.

I like Kim and I think too many people that comment on posts like this take their own personal taste too seriously and it comes off as pretty stuck up.

My sister and I were both big fans of Kim on Design Star but think she's been a big disapointment on her own show. She acts so full of herself. You never see that with the always terrific David Bromstad. I also get the feeling that Kim does not develop the designs herself. She's just the presenter. We had great hopes for Kim but not any more.

I don't have cable so haven't seen this person do her thing on the tv. I think the felt is probably more malleable than paper for this project. Maybe it's just me, but paper would make such a messy end product. I wouldn't have used the white, it looks weird during the project, it looks like interfacing (whatever that stuff is you're not supposed to see). This lamp is not my style but I think it does look ok with the light on. Since the found lampshade has to be intact for the glow to work right, and you'd also need the lamp you want to go with it, it's a little impractical, yeah? I have a lampshade frame where the fabric had to go, and no lamp for it as yet. I don't know how typical it is for everything to line up for this project to give practical advice.

And one more thing: have I gone crazy or do they start this project with a shade that was tapered, but end up with a shade that is the same diameter from the top to the bottom? This would have to be calculated mathematically to work on a tapered shade to keep the loops lined up; a straight dowel would not go very far. I'm also uncertain by the end if the feature has actually used white felt after all. The shade is ostensibly some kind of burnt orange or brown, but I'm not sure how much of that would seep through the white felt all over the place. The felt is glowing, but the peeking out parts are white. Magic of television?

Yeah... still mad at HGTV for the homophobic debacle that ended this season of Design Star.

Plus - all of their stuff is designed for the camera. My neighbors in Somerville were on Trading SPaces and a week after the filming half the crap that was built fell apart.