A Little Lamp Revamp

Hey friends!

Thanks for being patient with us as we revamped things a bit over here!

In my effort to 'love doing laundry' I decided that my newly painted laundry room needed a little lamp!  I rescued this little lamp over a year ago from someone's goodwill box and it has been waiting for a good coat of paint ever since.

I started by taking off the shade and covering the cord and top with tape.

Then, I gave her 2 coats of spray paint... That conveniently matched my new gray cabinets... Whoop!

My color of choice...

While it was drying I started destructing my shade.

We get lots of questions about recovering lamp shades.  I have found that each shade is so different that it is almost impossible to tell you the right way to do it.  I actually started this project with one idea in mind but as I destructed the shade that plan changed.

I pulled my trim off first.

Now my liner was glued over the shade cover so I pulled it off next.  If you plan to make a new liner save  this so you have your pattern.  I did another detailed shade cover HERE.

After both layers of fabric were removed I was left with this.  I was halfway tempted to use it just like this because I love the look of that metal! Not the brass though...

This is where my plan changed and I pulled out the jute!

I bought the 4 ply jute at Hobby Lobby for $2.99 and this shade took about 1/3 roll.... That's $1 if you missed the math :-)

Pulled out old trusty and got to gluing.  I only added a drop of glue to the metal every 5-6 wraps and it held perfect.  I also kept the top and bottom metal exposed to shanty it up a bit but if yours isn't cute you can cover it too.

I did cover that ugly brass clip with one more small piece of jute across the top.  Beginning to end this took me about 5 minutes.  My paint wasn't even dry when I got done.

Here it is all put back together.

 And in her new home....

Does it make me run in there grinning about laundry?? We're getting there ;-)

I think it shows great with my sign though....

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