Creative lighting

[pegkerr]

Saw this at Curbly.com [curbly_diymaven]: lighting your home with lamps made from cocktail umbrellas, by Heather Wells:

Cocktail umbrella lantern

What you need:

pre-made cylinder lamp with modified base and self-adhesive shade

cocktail umbrellas with tips that have been dipped in glow in the dark paint

clear glue

sharp little scissors

spray lacquer

heat retardant spray

wire cutters

What you do:

Head on over to HGTV for the entire tutorial.

Comments

[nmsunbear.livejournal.com]

Those are so cool. And I have hundreds of cocktail umbrellas hanging around from my Castaway party....

[aome.livejournal.com]

What a fantastic conversation piece! Looks like a lot of work, but the results are beautiful and creative. My father used to make interesting lamp bases (not shades) by completely covering old glass bottles in randomly torn bits of masking tape, and then tinting the tape with woodstain. The bulb base goes in the neck of the bottle, regular lampshade on top.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

The curbly_diymaven link is great fun to follow. They specialize in do it yourself projects that are 1) elegant in design and 2) cheap.