Those of us who scavenge for unique, vintage lamp bases know that an acceptable shade doesn't always come as part of the deal. It's useful, then, to have a few tricks up our sleeves for embellishing or creating our own lamp shades. These are three creative examples from folks who've taken the task in hand.
Craft: posted a How To yesterday for making a lamp shade out of a map, via Chez Larsson.
Seattle's Watson Kennedy had these lamps, with sheet music covered shades, illuminating their store displays.
Another Seattle store, Great Stuff, was selling this lamp with a shade made from a "reclaimed" paper wasp nest (and we've featured it before here.)
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The paper wasp nest one looked cool until I knew what it was. Now it makes me shudder. I have an irrational fear of bees and wasps.
I'm tempted to make the sheet music one at home, but I actually use all of my sheet music.
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All lovely. I've also used hand-made paper for a lampshade, and it looked great.
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