Lampshade kits

In an extract from her book A Handmade Cottage, thrifty Brit decorator Jodie May Seymour shares her steps to making a DIY lampshade

Our Lampshade kits are not only for beautiful fabrics. Making your own bespoke lampshades from scratch using wallpaper is easy to achieve, with the right know how and a couple of easy #hacks.Whether you simply use off cuts left over from papering your room, or want to use an eye-catching wallpaper for lampshades to sell in your retail collection, working with the vertical pattern of wallpaper needs a little thinking through to get a professional finish. In the second of our #lampshadehack…

A tutorial for how to cover a lampshade

Tucking in your fabric seam allowance is the final stage of making your Lampshade Making Kit, which gives your shade a wonderful and professional crisp finish 👌 Over the years, we’ve collected lots of useful information from our army of Professional Lampshade Makers, which includes tried and tested techniques, extraordinary tools and valuable tricks to get a perfect lampshade edging. In today’s blog post we share them all! Visit our blog today.

We Britons love our holidays - a day by on the beach, playing in the sand and sea rounded off with a fish and chip supper. We thought we’d capture these happy days with this DIY tutorial on how to make a lampshade with a map using one of our Rectangle Rounded Lampshade Kits. Click to see the full tutorial!

Do you have a lamp shade with a design you no longer love, but the size and shape of the lamp shade are still perfect for the lamp base? Simply recover the lamp shade using

NEW product alert! We’re excited to announce our NEW Lamp Base Making Kits, which are as easy to tailor to your interior style, as they are to make! Available as both a Table Lamp Base Kit, standing at 35cm high and two Floor Lamp Base Kits, both over a metre high, each Lamp Base Kit has been cleverly engineered using the same principles and professional materials as our popular Lampshade Making Kits. Simply pick a fabric or paper, buy the electrical fitting and make!

Fantastic Ceiling Fan Lampshade Kit (Add your own drum shade 13" to 15" wide to your ceiling fan) - - Amazon.com

If you’ve discovered our Lampshade Making Kits but are struggling to work out what size lampshade you need, this post has ALL the answers! Our guides will help you choose the most suitable diameter, height and shape of shade, allowing you to focus on the exciting part – choosing your fabric! Click to read the full post.