At a yard sale today, I purchased an brass antique standing lamp. The lamp shade came with it, but had a couple holes in it. Three light bulbs also came with it. It was marked at $5.00. It was the end of the yard sale, I got it for $1.00.
Three light bulbs would have cost me approx. $1.50 here for no-name bulbs. So I'm already ahead of the game.
Next I wanted to fix the lamp shade and didn't want to spend any $$ doing so. I took the fancy ribbing off the top and bottom of the lamp shade. Took me awhile to get it off, but it came off without tearing or falling apart.
I had been given some pretty material from a friend and decided to use that material to re-decorate the shade.
Cost:
~lamp $1.00
~3 light bulbs (free)
~material for shade (free)
~ribbing (free)
Cost for the whole lamp - $1.00. I now have a lamp I've been looking for years for, a new lamp shade that cost me a bit of time and a little glue and 3 light bulbs that I didn't have to purchase. One of those light bulbs will be taken out of the lamp and used elsewhere. Pretty cheap decorating.
Three light bulbs would have cost me approx. $1.50 here for no-name bulbs. So I'm already ahead of the game.
Next I wanted to fix the lamp shade and didn't want to spend any $$ doing so. I took the fancy ribbing off the top and bottom of the lamp shade. Took me awhile to get it off, but it came off without tearing or falling apart.
I had been given some pretty material from a friend and decided to use that material to re-decorate the shade.
Cost:
~lamp $1.00
~3 light bulbs (free)
~material for shade (free)
~ribbing (free)
Cost for the whole lamp - $1.00. I now have a lamp I've been looking for years for, a new lamp shade that cost me a bit of time and a little glue and 3 light bulbs that I didn't have to purchase. One of those light bulbs will be taken out of the lamp and used elsewhere. Pretty cheap decorating.