Hey Julia,

What a fun concept for a blog! As for how we might approach recovering a tapered rectangular shade, we would still try to use one “loop” of fabric glued with a seam in the back and also glued around the top and bottom of the lamp. Just as you can pull it taught around a drum, it stands to reason that you can pull fabric taught around a tapered rectangle- you probably just want to avoid patterns with obvious lines or grids since the tapered nature of the shade might make the pattern “migrate” so it doesn’t look “centered.” Does that make sense? But any fabric that’s solid or even floral or paisley should work if you follow the same basic steps that we outlined in this post. Hope it helps!

xo,
s

Was introduced to your blog last week and have been surfing it for hours tonight. In love! I’ll definitely send links to projects as I complete them, and you’ll get the credit: http://www.istealgoodideas.com.

Anywho … wondering if you’ve tried recovering lamps that aren’t so lovely and drum-like. I’m sitting here pawing the pair of lampshades that came with some Lowe’s lamps I bought years ago and DYING to recover them. The shades are rectangular and they are smaller at the top than at the bottom. Fabric shades. Any ideas on how to measure, etc?

Thanks for an awesome blog! You are inspiring me to be more prolific with my own!

Julia Perry, Idea Thief

So glad it worked and that it was such a snap. Yessssss!

xo,
s

I just re-covered a lampshade following this post and I must say it was a breeze! My lamp looks 1000X better and I’m now a HUGE fan of black lampshades.

Thanks again!

-court.

That’s so exciting! Can’t wait!

xo,
s

So glad they bent the rules for ya. Good luck with your new swing arm lamp!

xo,
s

Thanks, again!