Here I am putting the finishing touches on my newly renovated home office and oh my gosh it is looking so good! One of the finishing touches for the room would be a small lamp for additional light at my desk. UMMM... CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHY ARE LAMP SHADES SO EXPENSIVE?? Wow, I was yelling all in caps there for a second. But seriously, all I want is a small lamp with a fun shade. Searching here and there and everywhere and they just seemed to be slightly out of my price range and the shades weren't really what I was looking for.
Then I remember the three R's (reduce, reuse, recycle)... well I'm adding a fourth R, RE-PURPOSE!!! I decided to re-purpose an old black lamp I had in the garage without a shade that was in the pile for charity, and painted it champagne color (same as I used on my Homegoods find) and went out and purchased a $7 white shade from Target.
Then it was a matter of figuring out a pattern. I was checking out Katie Gibson's blog and watched this tutorial by Jones Design Company on how to stencil a wall! YES, she stenciled the entire wall and it was amazing, but I was thinking how I might poke my eyes outs having before I had enough patience to do an entire room. In any case, she provides the most FABULOUS stencil for her wall.
I copied the stencil, pasted it into word and then formatted the size of the template to 3.5 inch tall and printed it out.
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Once you've traced the entire lamp shade (less than an hour), then its time to paint! I went with a pale bronze craft paint that matched the gold accent from the wallpaper. But think this would look great in any color!
