Design Your Own Lamp Shades! Modern, Chic, and Eclectic « A DIY Round Hanging Lampshade. Multifaceted drum lamp shade is a perfect style statement. A lightweight paper drum lampshade is an aesthetic addition to your home lamp decor.
Designed by a user, zipper8lighting, at Etsy, this multifaceted drum lamp shade is a simple value addition to any household. Paper lampshades have been attempted before, (see here), but this multifaceted paper lampshade is definitely a top contender for the prize of the best paper lampshade simply because of the efforts put behind in assembling the hundreds of pieces of folded paper on the base material. This is definitely a perfect style statement for any home that gives value to the dedication in assembling hundreds of folded paper around the plastic Lobbo lamp shade from Ikea.
The folded fortune tellers arranged around the drum create a fine texture and are intriguing to observe even when unlit. The lampshade is a bright white unit when unlit and it will look good on any modern table lights. Via: Etsy. Look! Christina's DIY Lamp. DIY Twig Lamp. DIY Lampshade and Dry Erase Lamp. I found this lamp at Goodwill last week.
I knew I wanted it immediately, but it didn't have a shade at the time. And what do you do if you don't have a shade? You go to the store and buy one! No, that would be too easy. I really prefer to do things the hard way. Here is the shade I made I used old embroidery hoops (found at a yard sale for .10 each) and hot glued them to some wooden shims.
That part was easy. After searching about 3 different stores, I decided to go back to Goodwill. Voila! I love the white, but I felt like it needed a little something else. "Oh Holy Night" was played during worship at church 7 years ago the day I first accepted Christ. Here are a couple more views of the lamp and shade Thanks so much for stopping by! Blessings, Jamie 68 This post is featured hereDelighting in Today. Arts & Crafts Community. Home-made Pottery Barn/West Elm Lamp Knock-Off - The Thrifty Abode. I hope everyone had a fantastic Easter weekend.
Mine was great, and in case you missed it on Friday, I have the next three weeks off! For the next couple of weeks I'll be sharing details from some of the projects I've done to finish up my living room revamp and by the end of this week or the beginning of next week I'll have pictures of the whole thing. This first project (finished product pictured above) was so easy and cheap, and it turned out great. I love home-made things that don't look home-made.
I had been looking for a lamp like these since I put my living room mood board together. The first one is from Pottery Barn and it's $100 and the second on is from West Elm and it's $150. So I decided to make one myself. Time to drill! Thank goodness it did not shatter, but it did take for-ev-er.
From there all you have to do is follow the directions on the lamp kit packaging. Here's the finished product again: And here's what it cost me: New money spent: ***OOPS! Caroline Olsson. Paint Coral Pendant & David Trubridge Paint Coral Pendant. The coral pendant arrived in less than a week and took about an hour and a half to assemble.
Once we got the hang of clicking the pieces together, it was an easy process. We ordered the 600 and it is spectacular, albeit a little bit bigger than we anticipated. By:Suzanne , Homeowner (Illinois) Great design but to put it together require too much time. The price should be lower because of that. By:Supi , Homeowner (san francisco, CA) Cool design but too expensive and very time consuming to put it together. By:S.P. , Homeowner (P) Beautiful light in box and put together. By:Laura M. , Homeowner (La Fontaine IN) The orange paint on the interior of the fixture really glows when the light is lit.
By:Brenda S. , Designer (Scottsdale, AZ) By:Mayer Took me about 1 hour to snap together, no problems. By:Turtlegraphics , Homeowner (St. Ordering from Canada: don't even think of it.