![]() Now, of course it’s still a plug, so I had to figure out a way to hide the plug and at the same time, wanted the wall lamp to be portable and can be moved without putting so much damage to my walls! So that’s when I decided to put it on some extra pallets on hand. I was so relieved! Yay! So I basically removed the sleeves that connects the wiring and disconnected the wires so I can move the plug to no longer hang down, exposed. I didn’t want them to have exposed plugs, so I opened the fixture up to see if I could move the plug, and I saw that I was able to. It’s not the type that’s wired directly onto a wall. These wall lamps were made to have exposed plugs. ![]() Pretty much all the materials to put new fabric on lamp shades One shade with the new cover to the left and the original fabric on the right the new fabric just tucked into the wire frame with a little adhesive the wires showing where the plug comes out exposed A little tucking in on the ends, and that about summed up that part. I used a little adhesive spray and a few dots of glue from my glue gun to keep the fabric in place. Also, light needs to be able to still shine through, so this material worked well. It’s a small lamp, so it wouldn’t look right with anything heavier. The fabric reminds me of a light weight version of a drop cloth. ![]() So, as I debated on what to do with these, of course you know I had to do something fun: a little less foofoo and a little more rustic.įirst, I took the original white, vertically pleated, fabric off the lamp shade and used a $2.50/yd fabric from Wal-Mart (left overs from a previous project) to recover it. But, in recent times, I switched those out and got new lamps for our bedside tables. I’m laughing and crying at the same time! LOL! Anyway, I have these wall lamps which are the Ikea Arstid wall lamps that were going to be thrown out, and of course I can’t just let people throw things out, right?! So I took them, and I was able to use it, as is, in our bedroom for a few years. So, if you can just bear with me and look past that, you might just enjoy this. But, I finally get to share it with you, in full detail here! There were some problems with taking pictures of these! I don’t know about you, but having a big black box in the center of a wall isn’t the most appealing thing to look at, which makes taking pictures of the space a little torturous for me. I talked about them a little on Instagram but not in detail. So today, I wanted to share a little project, well 2 really, that I did last week.
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