Lampshade Makeovers 1

Let’s face it. Lampshades aren’t cheap. And most of us are unwilling to fork out the money to buy something that looks like it costs nothing to make. This got me thinking on how we could save money when our lampshades look old, drab and weary one day. Naturally, I scoured the net… and found these useful useful tips.

Apartment Therapy’s Lampshade Makeover – features a great (and very pictorial) DIY on how you can transform your old lampshades to look like a designer lampshade. For several dollars, you could have your lampshade looking like this:

Too much work? Brilliant Asylum has the perfect answer for a lampshade makeover – a simple and elegant tutorial on using ribbons to frame the top and bottom of your lampshade to add more character to it, getting it to look like…

to looking like this:

Steven & Chris’s lampshade makeover article covers four ways that you can makeover any drum-shaped lampshade. Of the four DIY tutorials, these are my favoured two – the first, using ribbons and the latter, using wallpaper for motifs.

More lampshade makeovers tomorrow…

Imagesource (from top): Apartment Therapy, Brilliant Asylum, Steven & Chris

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