Update on the Bare Lightbulb

Thanks to everyone's suggestions for the bare lightbulb in my kitchen. I checked out all of the ideas you guys had and finally settled on one. It came in the mail yesterday, I put it up and I love it, what a difference it makes!

I went with the Lunette Clip-On Shade from Relish and I think it looks pretty darn good. I like that it's minimal and casts a pretty glowing light, it also only took me about 30 seconds to install it since it just clips on. I think it took longer finding the ladder to reach it. But this would also look great on a wall instead of a sconce, I just wish they made them in different sizes: a giant one would be great!

Thanks again to everyone that made suggestions!

Comments (15)

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?

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?

My company, Nimble Jack Enterprises, has solved the problem of getting clip-on style lampshades to fit the most common and least expensive type of CFL’s on the market today, which have a coiled spiral shape. It’s called the Magic Toob Lampshade Leveler: http://www.magictoob.com/. The alternative is something like GE’s new Smart Bulbs, which are shaped more like traditional incandescents. There’s only one problem with that. They typically cost about FOUR TIMES AS MUCH as GE’s spiral CFL’s of the same wattage! Visit the Magic Toob site, request a free sample, and see for yourself!

Jack
Nimble Jack Enterprises