Purple lamp shade

[sierramist03]

Why are they so hard to find an adult nice purple lamp shade....I need two so I was hoping to only spend like $15-20 ea. has anybody seen any?

[boiler717]

I just spent an entire week looking and could not find one. Have you considered painting a white one?

[sierramist03]

I'm thinking about just doing gray instead

[moolarkey]

If you can find purple cloth or purple paper that you like, you could try covering an existing or cheap lamp shade.

[TBM]

[quote author="sierramist03" source="/post/2989775/thregray shades.

timestamp="1367796428"]I'm thinking about just doing gray instead [/quote]


We did that. We ended up getting purple lamps and used gray shades.

We did find purple shades somewhere, but we thought they didn't let enough light through. You almost couldn't tell that the light was on.

[sierramist03]

May 6, 2013 8:26:54 GMT -5 moolarkey said:

If you can find purple cloth or purple paper that you like, you could try covering an existing or cheap lamp shade.

I pinned some tutorials on doing this last time. Maybe down the road I just wanted to buy something for now though

[moolarkey]

May 6, 2013 9:27:49 GMT -5 TBM said:

[quote author="sierramist03" source="/post/2989775/thregray shades.

timestamp="1367796428"]I'm thinking about just doing gray instead

was the interior of the shade white or cream?   If the outside is a dark color I'm guessing the inside would need to be white or a light color to reflect the light?


We did that. We ended up getting purple lamps and used gray shades.

We did find purple shades somewhere, but we thought they didn't let enough light through. You almost couldn't tell that the light was on.[/quote]