Lamp Shades

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วันศุกร์ที่ 18 กันยายน พ.ศ. 2552

How to Change Your Lampshades to Match Your Decor

Sometimes it is a perfectly reasonable lampshade, which is the right shape and size for your lamp, but it does not fit your room in the system no longer work after you decorate.

If this situation there are several ways for you to update your lampshades.

1. Paint a plastic lampshade

If you have a lampshade made of plastic, which is fine - just have the wrong color - you may be able to spray paint it. Select a color in non-flammablea shadow to suit your room and ensure you follow the instructions on the packaging that your shadow is clean before you begin. It is best to use spray paint in one area if you do not inflict too much damage - outside if possible to protect your password on a calm day and you do not spray the surrounding area always mistakenly with color.

2. Cover made of plastic or fabric lampshade with another substance

Select a piece of fabric around the lampshade cover to one inchlonger than the shadows, and about 2 cm wider. Glue the fabric in the shade with spray adhesive. Cut (the additional material in the width to make a clean edge or fold the edges) on the inside. Wrinkles will smooth out the extra length on the upper and lower edges of the shade, cutting and folding the edges. Secure with glue (a glue gun is ideal for this task)

If you do not want to consider the substance stick and do not want a smooth substance that can be easily attached to a piece of fabric has a inch longer and wideras your lampshade and take along the edges to make a tube. Then hem the top and bottom to form a housing which you thread through the elastic. Slip your new cover over the screen, and it will stay neatly in place.

3. Add trim to make a simple lamp shade

You can trim to a lamp shade, so that it fits with your new decor for her either instead of or in addition to changing the fabric. Visit a store to look for ideas - aCurtain Shop is great for this because they often have all kinds of braids, beads and tassels used curtains and pelmets edge. You can also use the theme of your lamp shade or base with the addition of small objects such as shells or seeds that are relatively easy to stick so far. Actually, you are limited only by your imagination on this one. To make sure any fabric or trim is far away from the lamp for safety reasons.

4. Adding a template

Adding a templatePatterns on a simple screen to match the theme and color of your new space. Templates are available in many different patterns and designs available, so you committed to a suitable offer, and they are readily available online.



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