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Bedroom Design: Quick Change: A Tale of Two Lampshades

Post by Erin Sears.

In looking for ways to take my own bedroom design advice and begin again, I started assessing the contents of my bedroom. What do I love? What feels not-so-much? After taking a visual tour of the space, my eye kept getting stuck on my bedside lamps. The base of each lamp is fabulous (I am not humble about my own good taste), but one of the lampshades felt particularly ho-hum.

Here’s the story and what I did about it:

The first lampshade: Ordinary. Hard to clean and rapidly yellowing (gross). Similar to the one pictured below.

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Here’s the thing:  Many lamps that you buy in mid-range home furnishing stores or from catalog outlets are great design choices, but they usually come with plain lampshades so that they can be easily integrated into the scheme of any room.  But you don’t live in just ANY room, do you?  Certainly not!  You LIVE in YOUR rooms.  Time to switch things up! (pun intended)

While I was back in the Midwest for the holidays, I took a trip to the Happiest Place on Earth, also known as Target, with my dear mother.  Target has a new line of home goods called Threshold and I was instantly enamored with the look and quality of many of the products.  In the lighting section, I stumbled across this beauty:

The second lampshade: Ombre glory. Sea and sand magic.

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Knowing it wouldn’t fit in my suitcase I put my ownership ambitions on hold and hoped that the lampshade could also be found at my local store.  When I arrived it was in stock and for a cool 23 bucks it became MINE.  And you know what?  This little change has made all the difference.  It easily took my bedroom design up a notch.

Here are some other gorgeous options for lampshades that really light me up:

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Emily Wagner Handpainted Lampshade  $99

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Threshold Blue Ikat Print Lampshade  $22.99

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Threshold Mix and Match Trellis Shade  $14.99

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The Myriad Horizons Lampshade  $98-$118

When in doubt, try a new lampshade! Really. Setting my sights on subtle bedroom design upgrades has proven to be transformative and oh-so-very pleasing. What can you switch up?

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