While thinking about all of the different nursery decor options there are available, one thing was certain - I didn't want my baby girl's room to look like a typical nursery with all pinks, or winnie the pooh, or any of that crap. I'm actually just not a big fan of character decor at all. One day I'm sure she'll want that kind of stuff in there, but for now I get to choose. =) I've been saying this for weeks, but I have one more sign that was shipped this morning from Etsy and then we can finish hanging the other paintings in there, so I can get a blog post written!
Rag Lamp Shade
Recently I'd found a couple cute ideas on Pinterest for decorating a lamp shade, so I thought I'd try my hand at making my own for her room. I bought 1/2 a yard each of 7 different colors of fabrics that go with the color scheme we're using - pink, red, and turquoise. It ended up being entirely too much fabric, but it worked out just perfectly to use with another project I'd seen as well. Always better to have too much than not enough anyways!
I spent the better part of two evenings cutting the fabric into shreds so it would be easier to work with. They were approximately 1 inch wide x the length of the whole piece of fabric, if that makes sense. If it doesn't, you may just have to play with some measurements to make it work for your project!
After everything was torn up and placed in little piles, I started tying them to the frame of the lamp shade. I failed to take a picture of the lampshade before I tore off the fabric that it had previously, but it's important to find a shade that has a good shape, in order to make it work right. I think it would probably be pretty difficult to do it with a round shade, but I could be wrong.
As I worked my way up the shade, the ends had more and more fabric, due to the shape of the shade I'd chosen. Once all the fabric was tied, I went back and trimmed the edges of each piece to about the size of my thumb. I didn't care if some of the pieces were a little longer than others... it just adds to the beauty of it!
Once the shade was done and I put it on the lamp, I realized that the base itself didnt really match with the fabrics I'd chosen, so I decided to paint it. I painted it white first, brought it inside and tried it out with the shade, but it just didn't look right. The next day I used some of the paint that we used for an accent wall behind her crib, and pained the lamp base that color.
I just love the way it turned out and it gives such a cute country chic look to her room!
Fabric Chandelier
Once I finally finished the rag lamp shade, I still had tons of fabric strips left over that I didn't want to just go to waste. I picked up a couple metal rings at Hobby Lobby after one of my many dr. appts one afternoon. I had intended on making a double layer chandelier, but once I got all of the fabric strips tied to the metal rings, it proved nearly impossible to get them to line up evenly. Truth be told, I was just ready to get the project done and so I didn't spend much time actually trying to make it work. Baby girl will just have to make due with a single fabric chandelier for now.
The corner I hung it in looks a little busy with it up there, so I'll probably move it to another one, but you get the idea. I think it looks great and I love that it matches her lamp shade as well. Her nursery is coming along - slowly but surely!
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