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Cute!

Oooh, that's cute! I like. :)

Very Nice!
Would be nice to see more results of the advice given here!

ahhh.........I like it. Thank you for sharing the results. What a fundamental deviation. m

Gooks great. I love the choice. Thanks for the update. Can we see a picture of a larger part of the room. It would be nice to see it in the wild, if you will.

Oops! Meant that it "LOOKS: great. :blush:

I'll take a wider shot this evening and post it tomorrow!

That really does look great. I was wondering, would you be able to clip it on a bulb that's lays on the wall? I have an old fashioned cieling fixture & was thinking if I remove the glass cover & attach this shade directly to the bulb (which lays horizontal on the cieling), it would be the easiest & pretty neat looking solution.
Any idea??

"Lunette can be used as a ceiling, wall or table fixture." according to the website.

You should post it as BEFORE and AFTER (a picture is worth a thousand ........)Umi

Yay! Always good to see and/or hear the results of a question asked. Looks GREAT.

Does it change your attitude about being in the kitchen?

Excellent. I like decisive outcomes. It looks great!

True Blue, it hasn't quite, but that's a good question. It has motivated me to want to improve other details in the kitchen, does that count?

Laure: That totally counts.

Your original post said "...what the heck kind of shade do can we use..." so it sounded like you were frustrated.

And you added on qualifiers of "...1) awesome, 2) fairly inexpensive and 3) throws out even lighting" which meant to me that you cared about how it looked, but didn't have the seemingly bottomless pocketbook as one would think comes with being on this site.

You know, like the $5,000 chairs and "we tore out the kitchen, installed all the newest, latest goodies and customized the light fixtures to also accommodate trapeze work, as we are circus people."

Sometimes it's that one annoying thing, the light in your case, that makes you feel like it won't do any good to do anything else, because of that bright light up there with no shade.

Now you have a shapely fixture, casting a warming glow like moonlight, the colors look different in filtered light, and you don't need to wear welding goggles entering the kitchen. It does give you the impetus to try something else.

No doubt it can only "clip" on a regular bulb? So forget using CFLs with these clip-on shades?

Please don't act like this is some sort of conspiracy, but clip-on shades are a really old idea, and so is the common design of the incandescent light bulbs most people still use. If you want to get a clip on shade right now, and you find one you like, perhaps you can modify the wire or replace it in the proper gauge wire and a decent pair of pliers, to fit on your CFL. Even though the heat output will be lower, I think checking the clearance from the bulb would be better safe, and also place the shade at the correct distance for the design.

Maybe someday, they will be made that way as an ordinary course of business, and one would hope some makers, on like Etsy, are starting to produce them one-off or offer you the choice when you order.