I bought plain white lamp shades for my bedroom any ideas how to dress
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There's a great project on this site about how to customize a plain lamp shade. Best of luck!
http://www.hometalk.com/diy/decorate/rooms/customize-plain-lampshade-3313844
Customize Plain Lampshade
you could glue silk flowers all over the shade. Or mosaic mirror tiles. Or paint the inside a rose gold/ copper colour. Or glue small ostrich feathers all over the shade. You could dip the shade in a dish of nail polish colours, mixed and stirred to look like a coloured marble effect. Or glue some of those coloured glass flattened ball thingies to the shade. Or cover the white shade in a pretty fabric. Your choices are endless
Beads,paint them
wall paper is the wayb to go. Your choices are endless and remnants can be bought for a song.
Add trim to the top and bottom of the shade. Or beads to the bottom. Visit a fabric store and find some sort of ribbon, rope or any embellishment that catches your eye. Pin or glue on. I prefer Alene's products. Add a finial too! Take one shade with you to see what it will look like and to measure to get the right amount.
Added beads to my bedroom lamps.
You can buy embellishments made for lampshades at stores like Hobby Lobby
If it is fabric sometimes I add trim, if it is paper, sometimes I decoupage them or I paint them.