Spring Cure: How-To's

This week one of your assignments for the Spring Cure is to repair one thing in your home. Not sure where to start or how to do it? Check out some of our best how to's and small projects after the cut:

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My planned project is the floor lamp in the guest bedroom -- it needs a new switch. It has a dimmer switch, and the lamp works, but not the switch. I've attempted to fix it before, but I wasn't able to find a new dimmer switch to replace the broken one with. It is a foot switch - along the cord on the floor, with a button for on/off and a sliding lever for the dimmer. I've looked at Home Depot and they don't have a replacement switch, so the main part of the project is finding a new switch.

The lamp is very similar to this Chelsea torchiere from Pottery Barn, it is from PB also, but a few years ago. (It broke shortly after I got it, so it's been non-functional most of the time I've owned it.)

http://www.potterybarn.com/products/p9372/index.cfm?pkey=xsrd1mall%7C20%7C%7C%7C1%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7Clamp&cm%5Fsrc=SCH

posted by SanDiegoAT on March 18th 2008 at 11:50am
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IKEA has a cord dimmer for cheap:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90063173

Not sure if this will help you or not.

posted by JenJensen on March 18th 2008 at 12:07pm
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Hey - thanks! I'll check it out. I need just the switch part, possibly the cord can be removed so I can use the existing lamp cord. I wouldn't have thought to check IKEA (I was thinking ACE hardware, lamp store, etc.)

posted by SanDiegoAT on March 18th 2008 at 1:11pm
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