Design Ambrosia: lamps

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Saturday, February 13, 2010

$5 Lamp

Is this the deal of a lifetime or what? I have been so excited about this lamp ever since my friend picked it up for me in Layton 2 weeks ago. She brought it to me today and I can't stop staring!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

I bought this lamp and shade at DI quite a while ago. I loved it so much that even though it flickered dangerously I just kept it unplugged on my end table. Well, thanks to The How-To Gal's post about rewiring an old lamp, I stopped procrastinating and finally fixed it (with lots of help from my husband).

I also cleaned the lampshade, which was DISGUSTING! While cleaning it I realized it had formerly been in a smoking cat lady's house (ok, maybe not but it smelled sick and was covered in cat fur). I filled my kitchen sink up with warm water and a little bit of laundry soap, dipped the shade in and used a toothbrush to scrub in between the folds and remove cat fur. I had to rinse it a few times to get the grime and soap off, but it turned out great.

One question for everybody...do you think the lampshade goes with the base? I was told that the shade was too small but I want to know what you think?

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Why I Need To Start My Own Vintage Store

It drives me crazy when an item I've seen in a thrift store shows up on a website that is selling it for 10x the thrift store price. If I didn't already regret not purchasing it, I definitely do then. My goal is to make a way to buy and store all the cool stuff I see so I can resell it!

Red lamp at Deseret Industries in Provo, Utah: $5

Red lamp at Past Perfect in San Francisco: $(Not sure but more than $5, I bet)

Mid Century Modern 16" pendant light at DI (found on the same trip as red lamp): $7

Mid Century Modern 16" pendant light at Rejuvination: $215

images from Rejuvination and AtomIcindy

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

July 3rd Lamps

Remember when I wrote about this? Well, I promised pictures and never followed through. I figured I'd take some with a nice camera instead of just uploading them from my phone. But after 4 months that hasn't happened, and the phone pics aren't so bad...

The golden balls have been removed from the top lamp and I'm currently searching for some attractive replacements. Any ideas?

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Give your lamp a lift!

Here is the lamp before I did anything to it.

Prepping is the most important part! Give the lamp a really good cleaning. Be sure to scrape off any blemishes; for example this lamp had drops of paint on it that needed to be removed.

Tape up the parts that you don't want to get paint on. I find it's easy to put the cord in a zip lock bag so I only have to tape the little part that sticks out.

Now spray paint it!

Here is the lovely finished product!

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

DI time

Since I slacked on posting the Savers items yesterday...I get to do 2 posts in a row! I know stuff goes really quickly at DI which is why I like to show it on here right away.

The base of this lamp is so hot! It's got white over-spray on it, but that can be easily scraped off. If you like the red crackle ceramic just leave it, otherwise paint this thing some awesome color! I'm not as stoked on the shade, but it's pretty easy to find another one. For $5 this tall (1.5-2 ft) lamp is a steal!

Ok this item is totally for art and design nerds. It's a light table! For only 7 dollars! I never had one of them, but my roommate did and it was great. It can be used for tracing drawings.

These globe hanging light fixtures were so big that I couldn't get a good picture of them. They are probably 18 inches in diameter. Oh man would they look cool over a bar in a modern home! I think they were $7.00 each, but it could have been 5 (can't remember)!