Decorating Lamp Shades – Decorating Ideas for Lamp Shades. If you want to add a little pizazz to your room, decorating a lamp shade is a fast and frugal way to give your lighting (and space) a new look.
Check out our ideas, choose one you like, and get busy decorating! Most of these projects take less than an hour to complete. And don’t forget to send us photos. We’d love to see your creation! Cover a Lamp Shade With Fabric - Exterior Add a custom touch to a lamp shade with fabric that coordinates with your room's decor. Cover a Lampshade With Fabric - Interior Add some pizzazz to a boring lamp shade by dressing up its interior.
Embellish a Lamp Shade Ideas for updating a lamp shade by adding ribbon or other embellishments. Victorian Beaded Lamp Shade Instructions from Lynne Quinn on how to decorate a lamp shade to look like a Victorian beaded shade. Decorate a Lamp Shade with Dollies by Quercus Design Give a lamp shade a unique retro look with dollies. Lamp Shade Decorating Ideas from ReadyMade Several inspirational photos of DIY lamp shades. Lampshade Redo by Rob & Megan. I had found this lampshade at Lowe's after Christmas for$ 3.75 and it is approximately a 12 inch shade.
It originally came with a red and white plaid trim at the top and bottom, and that was why it was on clearance. It was easy to remove the trim and begin a new project. I purchased this fabric on sale at Joann's a few weeks back. I thought it would look great on the shade. The fabric for 1 yard was $10.00 and I used about half of a yard. I had pinned a wonderful tutorial by the The Creativity Exchange on how to recover a lampshade a while back. What I did next was take the end piece and hot glue it along the seam. Then I used hot glue to glue around the top where I left the least amount of extra fabric. I then did the same thing on the bottom working my way around and pulling the fabric tight.
Updating Lamps with Drum Shades. How to Cover with Fabric. I love easy and inexpensive updating/decorating projects that produce a big impact!
I’ve been on a mission lately to update some of the lamps and shades throughout our home. The lamps on the console in my living room really needed to be updated: I love the lamp bases but I really needed to toss the shades and come up with something fun and updated for new shades. I wanted to figure out a way to incorporate fabric into the shades for some color, and drum shades are the perfect shape for adding fabric for big impact. So, for the last few weeks, I have been on a mission to find the best large drum shades. My rug in my living room has a lot of reddish/orange in it and I was looking for ways to add more of that color throughout the room. Covering the drum shade in fabric is really easy, here’s how: 1) Turn the shade on its side and match up the seam of the shade to the beginning of your fabric like this (I’m using poster board to give a better visual of where to cut the fabric): Cheers!