Okay since the purchase of the lake house I have been a Craigslist junkie. I surf almost daily for missing items. I am on a tight budget and we had a deadline. I will admit I love projects.
So when I learned there was a Hotel clearance place I was crazy excited. I thought I would pick up missing dressers and nightstands. Well I was wrong about the furniture. That was cheap particle board junk in bad shape. But I did find lamps. Wish I would have found these first I would have put them in all the rooms. A plug.. Why don't all lamps have a plug? I picked up these lamps for $15 each with the lamp shade. Again, Plugs in the lamps do I need to say anything else.
The lamp shades were in bad bad shape. I knew I wanted to wrap them in jute rope. Here is where I learned that not all glue is equal. You can't see it but the blue label glue left yellow-orange everywhere. I had to stain the shades to cover the glue marks. My trusted gorilla glue left no glue residue.
One finished. You can see the bent up unwrapped shade against the wrapped shade. I honestly like the muted light as well. I had to trim the shades when they were done. The rope has stray "hairs" I like the rough look but I did need to tidy it up.
Sorry you can't see the yellow marks. They are bad. I need to change the setting on my camera. I am going to mess around with photos in a blog. I know how to do it it is just remembering to do it. Bad thing with a digital camera is that I look at the screen and don't check the actual photo. My bad.
The stained shades. I will never get that glue again. Lesson learned. This is the bunk room, it is an attic room the ceiling are low and there is very little wall space. I want to decorate this room but not sure what I am going to do with the limited wall space.
They look great. Left shades are stained and the right are just the jute/sisal rope.
Happy shade covering.
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