New Lampshade For Master Bedroom

This is the wonderful toile I bought at Hobby Lobby, which I really just love the look of ~ the colors are great, as well as the pattern, and it has an aged look about it.

I bought about a yard and a half to do this lampshade in our master bedroom and a pillow for the bed.  I have plenty left over and could probably get three pillows out of what is left.

A good way to use a fabric that might otherwise be out of your budget is to buy a small amount and use it for something like a pillow, a lampshade or a simple valance.  It’s a good way to get something you love into your home while staying in your budget.  This fabric is fairly pricey.

I followed the same steps as I did on my craft room lampshade and you can find the complete tutorial here, although this shade is a bit larger than that one.  Plus, I’m just using one fabric as opposed to two.

I’ve used a wider flat trim on this one in a gold tone that went well with the gold in the fabric.

I used it for each section, the top and the bottom.

I had this looped fringe {just enough to go around the bottom portion} and also covered that with the flat trim.  I could have left it with just the looped fringe, but I thought it would finish it off better because you could see the thread where they sewed the looped fringe together.

Finally, on the lamp.

There were eight sections to be cut for this shade and I made sure to do every other section with one of the women figures.   So, I had four of those and then I tried to get some of the other colors going on in the fabric from the scenery in the other four.

You can see in the picture above how, with the lamp in front of the mirror, it will pick up the images that are on the back of the shade, too.  Here’s a night shot so you can see how it looks lit up!  If you have any questions about this project, feel free to ask!

I can’t wait to get started on that dresser!  I am going to try and do the shade of blue that you can see in this fabric.  I think this mirror is going to go {it came with the dresser} and I have a larger mirror from my old house that will probably work better here.  That will need to be painted too.

I’ve got a giveaway going on for the PB Santos Ornament here!

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Kathy