Dye your plain lamps with a fun color
These turquoise pendant lamps look new new and chic with this easy homemade dye.
Cover it up with painted fabric
This sea-glass inspired lamp shade is simple to do, and made this boring lamp fabulous.
Create a raised textured design
Give your plain lamp some dimension with this gorgeous design.
Give it a rusted outdoor look with twigs
Collect a bunch in your backyard and then glue them on for a woods-inspired lamp.
Cover it with sisal rope
Get a nautical look with this simple idea to give your boring lamp shade some love.
Replace it with a new shape
This old lamp got a modern look with it’s painted base and slick lamp shade.
Draw your own pattern on it
Buying new laps are expensive. Make your old ones totally designer worthy with a sharpie!
Make it look like a bucket full of roses
This cute tutorial recycles old magazines into a romantic lamp shade.
Wrap your favorite fabric around the frame
With this hack you can get a designer looking shade that originally cost $5.
Or turn it into a pleated lamp shade
This is so simple that all you need to know is how to use a glue gun.
Stencil it for a unique design
It’s an easy and fun way to spice up your lamp shade with some chalk paint.
Paint the base in a new color
Sometimes you don’t need to fix the lampshade, but rather the base of the lamp to make it work.
