I recently inherited a very corporate-looking lamp from a friend after her recent move.   I took the lamp, even though I knew it didn’t match the somewhat girly décor in my apartment. But I saw its potential, so I kept it.  A few months later, Yay! DIY contributer Alicia sent me this link from one of our favorite blogs, Living With Lindsay showing us how to fancy-up a lamp shape with some grosgrain ribbon and old buttons.

And you know what? It totally did the trick! The lampshade took on a whole new light. (Pun intended.)

Using my trusty hot glue gun I wrapped some ribbon around the top and bottom, then faked a bow in the front by wrapping the ribbon back and forth.  I found a pearl button and a black button, and glued them to the bow, in the middle.

Isn’t the end result cute?  My only complaint is that I rushed the project, so it’s not as straight as I want it to be, because I did this after four galsses of wine but it looks good enough!