Convert Ceiling Lamp Shade To Table Lamp

How to convert a lampshade to a hanging light fixture.

Convert ceiling lamp shade to table lamp.

It immediately struck my eye as being right side up and just as quickly the idea came to me to make a table lamp from it. The center stalk should also be substantial. Raid the attic and the barn for supplies to make a ceiling light lampshade. Remove the existing shade on the ceiling fixture.

You will need a pendant light kit a cap to cover the hole in your ceiling that holds all of the electrical parts and of course a lamp shade. Personally i d look for a wooden floor lamp which you could paint to suit. 9 12 14 cotton coolie table lamp shade ceiling light pendant lampshade cream. When i saw this stick light on joss main i thought it was fun and beachy yet geometric.

Replace the regular bright bulb with a low wattage or colored one. Next follow these instructions how to wire pendant light structures. And call me crazy but i immediately looked at it and saw a ceiling pendant. The shape and look of the lamp shade is an important style consideration but you also want to pick a shade that matches how you ll be using the lamp.

If you really don t want to piece your own pendant light together you can totally buy them already assembled. Thankfully he was right there on the stick light train with me. In this case the height of the lamp you ll want is 24 18 6 shade. I could totally.

To make sure i wasn t being weird i ran the idea of converting this plug in table lamp by john. Angie and i were looking through our local habitat for humanity re store lighting section when i saw a ceiling light fixture sitting upside down on the shelf. If you have a lamp that has a nice lampshade but the base is a problem you don t like the lamp base style or the base has sustained. The big but is that this is a large shade and you must have a largish diameter base for balance or over it goes when the first person bumps into it.

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