Hey friends! With the never ending ridiculous temperatures here in Texas, I have been focusing more of my time on indoor projects. Today I tackled a lamp for my oldest girls’ room.
I had this old lamp that used to be on my bedside table.
I love the lines of it and knew a little Rust-Oleum would do the trick. First, I gave it 2 coats of Painter’s Touch Blue Sky.
While that was drying I started on the shade. This lamp had a shade but I wanted a slightly different shape so I bought this one from Target. I think I spent around $10 on it.
I decided to add some flowers to it. These are the girls quilts I was going off of…
I found a cute fabric at Hobby Lobby that just about matched them. It’s the same fabric I used on my storage boxes.
I cut a few 1.5″ strips.
Hot glue one folded end to some felt…
Then, I just twisted and hot glued it down.
Once that is all finished, you just pull the end of the fabric to the back and glue it.
I made all my flowers and then started on my stripe. I wanted to use ribbon for this part. Ash even went and got me some… Thanks Lash! However, I hated the way it wasn’t laying smoothly so on to plan B.
I taped off a stripe using some painter’s tape.
Then, I used a stencil brush and some acrylic paint to make my own stripe.
I let that dry while I shantied the lamp up just a bit. I used some 220 grit sandpaper to distress my edges.
Finally, I hot glued my flowers on randomly until they made me happy and I was done.
What do you think??
Hope you like it 🙂
I kind of LOVE using fabric flowers! I used them on these other projects too…
Old style looks better…That type of lamp goes for 100$ in it’s original state. You made it go from 100 to 5$ it’s pretty tacky
I love this!! Found your site via the Lettered Cottage. I have been wanting to know how to make those fabric flowers and now I know! So easy, I’ll definitely be trying it out…I’m thinking they’ll make perfect hair clips for my 7 year old!
I love them as hair clips Shawna! Go for it… Super easy! 🙂
i LOVE the look of this lamp, so i gave it a try and was really pleased with my end result … until i put a light bulb in and turned it on. my pretty yellow stripe came through as a yucky brown. 🙁 any ideas on what to do? 🙂 thanks for your input.
What a beautiful project and add in inexpensive supplies and not a lot of time and I’d say you’ve done a fantastic transformation.
Thanks so much!! I appreciate it 🙂
~Whitney
That looks great!! I have exactly the same vision for my daughter’s room.=) http://bellesbazaar-heather.blogspot.com/
It looks awesome! That makes me want to re-do my lamp re-do I did a few months ago! HA! 🙂
I love how the lamp turned out and using paint in place of the ribbon is genius! I’m here from the Tatertots and Jello Link Party!
Lovely!
I’d love for you to share your sweet lamp at my link party…hope to see you there!
So pretty! I’m in the process of redecorating our guest room and I might have to do something similar using the quilt fabric I’m using. IF the quilt turns out, that is! I love the shape of your lamp…I can’t help but seeing a mom with her hands on her hips! Anybody else see that?
I adore the bedding! Great job on the lamp.
Absolutely beautiful! I love what a little bit of paint can do!
Love the lamp, such a great idea. I also love your blog. Thank you.