I know what you are thinking; What this room needs is another pattern.
I think you are right.
In my epic quest to become comfortable with reupholstering furniture, this time I turned my attention to a lampshade. It’s not exactly furniture, but it made for good practice and funkified a thift store lamp. Win-win.
The last time I tried recovering a lamp it was with one of those double-sided adhesive kit things and came out awful. Every bump and lump showed up. Blech. This was totally different. It came out great.
Here is the tutorial not-really-a-tutorial: Spray an old shade with glue, cover it with fabric, trim off edges, go over rims with a bead of white glue followed with double sided bias tape. Bam!
Three helpful tips:
1. This removable spray adhesive is amazing. Sticky-yet-forgiving. It let me smooth out the fabric just the way I wanted it. It’s non-permanent, which is why I followed up on the rims with regular glue.
2. Make sure your fabric is ironed FLAT before starting. You might think it’s not wrinkled, but yeah, it is.
3. Big abstract style patterns cover wrinkles and bumps more than flat color or stripes.
I have no idea why I decided this room needed a lime green lampshade, but here it is. I like it.
Next up, pillow talk. Get excited, people!
I don’t know why you decided either but I love it too. You definitely have an eye for combining patterns, the shade completes the room. Excited to try this out! I have a few lampshades I tried to paint and well, it didn’t go that well.
It’ll be nice to rescue them from my decor graveyard.
If it comes up from the graveyard, does that make it a zombie lamp?
I think so. I may have some zombie lamps myself…. Awesome!
Spray adhesive!! I’m so glad you thought of that!
It pops – looks good! Glad you made the addition to the room. Didn’t know it was missing until it was added, you know? That is always how things are. Like where are the kids… or the chocolate… or the keys…
omg cute… but THAT ENTIRE LITTLE NOOK is adorable!!! I can’t even handle it. LOVE!
Oh my! I really love this creation. This custom lamp shade is fabulous. I love the the way it looks, just simple but fantastic. I love the colorful fabric used as well. I’m glad you shared all these awesome ideas.
–FenchelShades.com
Okay, I love your lampshade and my daughter and I are totally going to do that to her lampshade because it’s really boring. BUT… you have a painting of INIGO MONTOYA?!?!?!? I want it! Want want want it, I said!