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You may find this as hard to believe as I do, but I am finished with my bedroom redo #3. Fine-awl-lee. It's taken me months. Most of that time was spent on the
she-devil desk that I bought for $14.99 at Goodwill. I thought it was a good deal at the time, and I suppose I still do, but she took
hours to refinish. I now know there was a better way to refinish her, but that realization came with all the lessons learned along the way and experienced garnered. I digress. (The desk post will come later this week.)
This post is about a lamp shade redo that I performed last night and this morning.
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A couple of weeks ago I bought the cutest little "crystal" (acrylic) lamp for the above mentioned
devilish desk. However, I had a difficult time finding a shade for it, so I decided to cover an inexpensive shade and make it "my own." I purchased a $7 shade at Target, and I used some fabric from my stash to cover it. The fabric is a cotton from
Amy Butler's Midwest Modern line. I just love it and it fits perfectly in the room.
I started by laying the lamp shade directly onto the fabric, and as I rolled the shade around the fabric I outlined the lamp shade. Then I cut just inside the traced lines so the fabric was slightly smaller than the shade.
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I used a paintbrush and some fabric glue to attach the fabric to the shade. I painted the glue onto the very edges of the shade (1/4" from the edges) and pressed the fabric edges to the shade.
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Some trim from Hobby Lobby finished her off! (I used Fray Check on the edges of the trim to keep it from fraying.)
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A little hot glue secured the trim to the edge of the shade.
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I really love how it turned out. This room has become an eclectic mix of trendy and traditional, and I love how the fabric on this lamp ties together both of those looks with a vintage modern spirit.
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