Create truly unique home decor by making your own lamp or fixture.
Lamps are an important feature of the typical American home. Attractive table lamps both give light and accessorize a room's decor. While inexpensive lamps are widely available, nothing can replace the special look of a lamp you design and make yourself.
Instructions
1. Wire the lamp stand. Drill a 3/8-inch hole through the store-bought lamp stand from the bottom to top, unless the stand comes with a pre-drilled hole for the wiring. Insert a rod through the hole, leaving 2 inches at the top. From the bottom, wire the stand up through top.
2. Connect the socket.Thread the wire through the neck, and attach the wiring to the socket at the screws.
3. Put the neck, socket, harp and finial on the stand. Attach the neck on the stand. Put on the socket and place the harp with the finial into the socket cover attachment
4. Remove the shade from an old cylindrical lamp shade. Take off all the material. Be sure not to damage any of the metal struts in the structure. Wrap cotton tape, in a color that matches the new lamp shade material, around the old lamp shade structure. Wrap enough around to attach a new shade.
5. Sew a new lamp shade and place on old shade structure. Measure around the old lamp shade structure at the widest place. Add 2 inches and cut the material. If you prefer, decorate the material with a design. Sew the material with a 1-inch hem and slide over the lamp shade.
6. Put in the light bulb and place the shade on the lamp. Turn the lamp on to check that it works.
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