This week I experimented with the new smart French bell-shaped lampshades in gorgeous vibrant colours and curious textures. These new pieces are a start of an impressive new collection. More cool in situ images of these lampshades will be on the Wednesday posts as they will be at the product showcase. I’m excited to share items in the product showcase posts every two weeks. And you can find the product showcase tab under its little tab on the website menu here.Click to find the product showcase
I’ve been immersed in producing decor items lately. It will be wonderful to finally share my most recent efforts with more people online as I list items for sale in my Etsy shop and insert fabulous images here. Below is a little taster of items coming up in the product showcase soon.
Burlap lampshade made of on-trend hessian. Coming to the shop soon.
I’ts Christmas and I’m very excited this season to have designed and made these sustainable lampshades. I created them out of recycled upholstery nails and my favourite banana fabric. I mainly designed them to be a modern development to the traditional banker’s lamp. You know the one I mean, they’re the old green glass shade and bulbous brass lamp base that fit traditional victorian inspired office spaces.
Multi values
These new desk lampshades I love because they are sleek, modern and fit the mid-century trend as well as fit in with traditional spaces as well as those with apartments with a minimalistic vibe. They will be available to buy on my Etsy shop Home Office Charm in early January 2020
A five-year journey
I got the inspiration for the form of the new collection of the sustainable lampshade from a traditional handstitched version I did (see image below).
Hand-stitched banana fibre lampshade at Earth Shine arts by Home Office Charm
Over the years, I’ve enjoyed its warm golden glow as my bedside table lamp. I knew it would be appealing after hearing the reaction to it while I had it on display at West London interiors showrooms. It was also a favourite shade in my Etsy shop. I had to price it high ( the soft hand-stitched version) as it took me ages to make and it hurt my thumbs along the way. I vowed never to make it again. But I was so enamoured with the warm glow that the shade generated I wanted others to experience it too.
So to make it easier for more people to buy and so that I could make more of them while fitting in with my earth shiny vibe, I created the new collection. I dreamed up the new collection and experimented with these sustainable lampshades at weekends and evenings to fit around my full-time work. I attended courses this year on wiring and batch make them during high days and holidays. I’m so excited to hear what other people think of them when they get listed in my Etsy shop from January 2020.
I wanted to do justice to this standard lamp as its trimming update was long overdue.
It’s one of the pieces that I realise now was over designed. And recently I’d
been wanting to strip down the details always remembering the less is more rule. I continued to be Inspired by smart office dress and my mood board contained images from Pinterest.
Lampshade Before
Selecting matching pink fringing
Trying trimming on for size style and mood
Then the finished piece is is what I’m much happier with. Just need to get a new lamp stand. Thinking dark burnt oak or ebony wood.
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