Click here to find out more about our ability to create custom lamps for our customers. Many every day objects can be turned into a lamp – from glass and ceramic vases to candlesticks to firemen’s boots to Singer Sewing Machines to servers to sailboat blocks…we have made lamps from these objects and many more. […]
Linen lampshades have become oh-so popular, but did you know there are more linen lampshade fabrics than meets the eye? From rough, open weaves to finer, more elegant weaves, there is a linen lampshade for any room or function. Linen lampshade fabrics range in thickness and transparency, and we can recommend a fabric based on your illumination
Click here to learn more about our service creating custom lampshades. We love creating custom designed lampshades for any project. From silks, linens, cottons, and handmade papers in your choice of colors, we offer a wide range of decorative trim options to provide a customized finishing touch to the lampshade. We most often see
Click here if you want to learn more about our service of creating custom lamps. We love our customers, and the unique ideas they have for lamps. To commemorate the more than 30 years spent in the electric industry, one of our customers brought a General Electric meter to us to turn into a lamp.
Featured Project: General Electric Meter Custom Lamp Read More »
Click here to check out our service for affordably creating lampshades with the nautical map you choose! There isn’t an ocean or body of water that isn’t worth exploring! If you have visited our shop, or found us online, you have likely seen the many different styles and sizes of nautical lampshades that we offer
Click here to learn more about contacting us to help you create your own custom lamp! On Monday we shared some beautiful photos of some of our prized (and loved!) bottle Lamps that are handmade in house. In this post, we share a behind-the-scenes look at how these are made in our store. Step 1:
Click here to learn more about our service of creating custom lamps out materials you provide. People love their bottles. Bottles from memorable dinners. Bottles that were a gift for a special occasion like a wedding or anniversary. Sometimes these bottles are not disposable and require a permanent spot in the home, which is why
From Rome, our group of wonder walking women “trained” to Florence, the birthplace of the Renaissance and one of the most beautiful cities in the world, filled with historic artistic and architectural marvels. Once again, we walked and walked and walked, and our journeys took us to all parts of this marvelous city. One of
I had an opportunity to travel to Italy – Rome and Florence – on a “Wellness Trip” with 6 other wonderful women. With the exception of our transportation to and from the airports – we walked Rome and Florence. What a fabulous experience – from the Roman ruins to the Vatican to the food
Silk lampshades with smocking are special. The technique of smocking is essentially a type of “double pleating”; the first layer of pleating is most often a box pleat – typically a “closed” box pleat, but they can be made with open box pleats as well as “drapes”. And then, the second “smocked” layer is created
Silk lampshades with either shirred pleats or side pleats are the two oldest styles of pleats. While today we do see customers a bit more interested in the box pleats, there are many wonderful “looks” that can be accomplished with either a shirred pleat or a side pleat. Silk shirred lampshades are made by loosely
We introduced the most “basic” types of box pleats – the simple box pleat, the Euro or English style box pleat, and the open box pleat. But there are more variations on the theme! The Rolled Box Pleat is characterized by “softer” folds, as compared to the more “crisper” folds of the standard box pleats
