Fab Freebie: Your Perfect Shade
*** This giveaway is no longer accepting entries***
Time to break out your inner product designer again folks, because this week you’re designing your very own lamp shade.
Lamps Plus is the nation’s largest specialty lighting retailer (you West Coasties may know them in person, while us East Coasters can peruse their wares online) and they’ve got a great new “Design It” tool on their site so you can design your own drum shade for a whole slew of lamps and fixture styles. And this week one of you can win a Brushed Steel Contemporary Table Lamp with a shade in the pattern, color and trim of your choice.
Here are just a few of the designs that we played around with (so many patterns, so few empty side tables):
If you’ve already created a design that you love and can’t bear to wait ’til Thursday’s winner announcement, Lamps Plus is giving YHL readers a special discount (click for more details). Oh and you can take a screenshot of your design and submit it on Lamps Plus’ Facebook page to remember- and share- your masterpiece with others. Who knew lamps could be so interactive? Now for this week’s entry deets:
- PRIZE: A Brushed Steel Contemporary Table Lamp with your very own custom shade thanks to the Lamps Plus’ Design It tool
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “MY SHADE IS” and…
- BONUS QUESTION: …tell us your favorite color (we’re going back to basics this week). But since we’ve all grown up a bit past simple “green” or “red,” we’d love a bit more of a description (glowing amber? muted gray-blue? ruby red? celery green?).
- GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, May 26th at 8pm EST
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: ONE
- PRIZE SHIPS: The 50 nifty United States
- USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winner will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday. Good luck!
Find more freebie info on our Giveaway FAQs page. Pics courtesy of Lamps Plus
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MY SHADE IS
Green. I LOVE green. I think it is such a calm, soothing color. I love that it is a bit Earthy so I always think of the outdoors whenever I see it!
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blue gray (Uncertain Gray by Sherwin Williams is where its at)
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hot pink! i love to wear it. it’s also the color of my phone cover, although i’d never paint a wall that color
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slim shady…. chartreuse or lemon yellow… also can’t go wrong with a light bluish grey as a neutral
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I love silvery blue tones
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Red is my favorite color. I used to have a red car that I loved.
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sea glass turquoise
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Cozumel by Behr!!
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aubergine!
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white! I know. Boooring, but oh so fresh for summer time.
My shade is green. I love most shades of green. I recently painted my little boy’s bedroom a pear green and we love it.
MY SHADE IS…sage green! But I’m also into the grayish aquamarine blue these days.
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Shady gray…seriously. Gray is my favorite color at the moment. I can’t get enough of it. I almost bought an entire set of Mikasa dishes last week just because they were gray…it’s such a moody color, but when you pair it up with some fun colors it makes for the greatest statement!
MY SHADE IS
I have been drawn to bright turquoise and corrals lately. They both just scream summer time fun in the sun to me!
My shade is a pale gray blue!
MY SHADE IS….all greens….cucumber, melon, lime, grass…all of it! :)I just painted my dining room Geico! :)
MY SHADE IS…I have several “favorite” colors but the one that has outstood the test of time is bubble gum pink…guess I haven’t quite grown up yet. :)
MY SHADE IS…chocolate brown if I’m wearing it. On the walls – gotta love taupe!
MY SHADE IS…aqua blue. I am currently obsessed. I would love an aqua blue imperial trellis lamp shade!
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Seaglass
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happy yellow!
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Oatmeal
MY SHADE IS… sage green. Anything close to that shade of green.
MY SHADE IS……black.
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tiger eye (it’s the name of the Shermin Williams paint in my family room).
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While I’m usually drawn to blues and greens, I’m currently loving coral! It’s such a warm beachy color!
Jess
http://www.ourlifeinhisgrace.tumblr.com
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blue. A slightly-teal, robin’s egg pale blue.
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AWESOME! Just kidding. My shade is classic yet contemporary, unique yet breathtaking. I’ll go with a fabulous cream color. =)
my shade is…turquoise! i try not to go too crazy with it in the house – it’s a little too bright to paint anything that shade, but i love adding small pieces of it and then setting it off with neutrals and bright orange accents.
MY SHADE IS…sapphire blue
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I love light greens, sage green, blue greys, anything earthy and muted that leaves a calming feel. :)
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Marsh Weed by Porter Paints (similiar to Cattail at Lowes). It’s an earthy green-brown that’s in my hall and stairway. I love the color so much I painted it in my kitchen just five days ago!
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daffodil yellow!
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Anything with cheerful color and patterns!
MY SHADE IS the light green you find in plant leaves.
My shade is…nearly any shade of green. Lime first, followed by celery, kelley…anything but forest. I don’t like that one.
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pink, powerful pink, bright fuchsia pink!
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Kelly green.
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Lately I am loving charcoal — but I love brights too — royal, coral, and teal are some of my faves these days…
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A rich buttery yellow! or
bright caribbean turquoise!
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blue. Cerulean, to be exact.
Spa Blue – the Benjamin Moore color we painted our bedroom!
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eggplant
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A lovely grass green.
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robin’s egg blue
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Soft aquas and fresh corals, with touches of sunny yellow. Perfect combo.
MY SHADE IS…watermelon
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A mustard-gold colour! It’s bright in the summer and yet perfect for the holidays.
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Aqua Blue…but it’s SO hard to choose because I love so many colors! :)
“MY SHADE IS”….pink! It may be typical but I love it!