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a new low...

Not attractive at all.

Maybe this would look better if the fabric was not the exact same putty color as an empty roll of tp.

no.

there's resourceful... and then theres cheap
I'm not surprised a landlord did this tho
(PS I love my landlords, because they would never do this)

hell to the no

Hey, did you know you have a toilet paper tube on your sconce?

Hummm, the sconce and the fabric, and the shade either don't match, or look too much the same. Why not just place a very large or long shade that hides the base?

Or those Italian shades that are semi circular? Like a normal shade cut in half?

gross

but..it still looks like a toilet paper roll...

covering up one lighting eyesore.....with another.

I do love "paper bag brown" as a color, but this fabric isn't working. I don't think that those fake-candlestick sconces are really so bad, but if you have to cover them up, why would you do this?

The taste level of some of the AT contributors is surprisingly very low.

That hardware supporting the sconce is probably pretty nice, if it hadn't been painted 10,000 times.

isn't this a fire hazard to have cardboard in contact w/ wiring like this?

so tacky

"Honey, we're out of toilet paper!" "Don't worry, just wipe with that old light fixture. Should work fine." "O.K.! Thanks!"

yep. still a toilet paper roll.

How cheap can people be? Oy.

Its very creative, a brown shade would look better and hide the fact that it's a TP.

Yikes, while I agree it's not stunning... I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say maybe it looks better from further away? There's no reason to be so mean about it.

I'm not sure how the base could be worse than staring at an empty toilet paper roll that looks like an empty toilet paper roll!

I worry about someone who has so many empty toilet paper rolls that they have to find uses for them. Maybe easing up on the dietary fiber?

And in the spirit of the season, can we not have any more posts on tacky junk? It's barely November, and this has me dreading Christmas.

örgs. we do not like it.

The idea has been refined by this company- kaarsKoker. I should know- I own the company. Apt Therapy SF featured it www.kaarskoker.com. It is fine to be creative but be respectful. My god.

The kaarsKoker ones are WAY cuter. Yeah, I'd have to ask the occupant if they knew there was an embroidered tp roll on their light.

I'm wiped!

Horrible...Hideous...Disgusting.
Toliet Paper Rolls should never part of a room "solution"
D.I.Y= DO IT YUCKY.

couldn't you just cover it with contact paper???

When you have something that is just apparently representative of something specifically ingrained in the collective unconscious like, oh... say... candles, when you have to cover up the electircal mechanism of the chandelier thing, you really need to step up to the old electrical code and buy something that is safe, like whatever they make and sell that will do that. While it's at it, it probably at least makes some kind of passing nod to a texture that (from a distance) could pass for a candle.

Another possibility is to completely replace the fixture if you really can't stand it, although it's really fun (I think) to use historic bits, when you can. If it were me, not only would I put something on that thing that looks candle-ish, I would probably paint the rest of the thing some at leastl vaguely metallic color, so it doesn't seem so painted over.

I'd probably also want to do some kicky shade on it. OR... have the light bulb kind of kicky in some way.

...this has to be a joke...