Good-looking lamps are hard to find. I can spend a Saturday visiting the Home Depots in Metro Manila just searching for that one unique lighting fixture to accent a dark corner or light up the whole living room. Now if you're not like me who can drive around the metro visiting the four Home Depots in a day, you just may have to resort to some DIY-ing.
The project at the moment was to find a bedside lamp for my room. I'm not the type who reads before going to bed, alright. I simply wanted a lamp I could switch on without having to stand up and flick open the room light.
Several months back, I purchased an inexpensive touch lamp from IKEA. There's a small outlet here in the Philippines, located in the Quezon City area. Now, the touch lamp wasn't that bad. Silver sexy body with a white cone which you can screw off or on, depends on how dirty your mind is - shame on you. Anyway, I got bored with it soon enough. It was too plain.
I was looking through one of the posts in Apartment Therapy and found a rather inventive way of salvaging what I already had and simply adding a mundane piece to make it more interesting. I went to True Value in Rockwell and got myself an orange traffic cone. It comes in two sizes, small and huge. I got the small one, okay. The bigger sized traffic cone was just overkill.
Anyway, I unscrewed the white cover of the old lamp and just placed the orange traffic cone over the silver body. But really, you can simply buy a bulb, a socket, a switch, a lengthy cord and a plug - put them all together if you have the skill, right? So, where was I? Oh yeah, actually, it's that easy.
Now, place on your bedside table or wherever you choose. I was actually thinking of putting it somewhere in the living room, but it looks better inside the bedroom.
By the way, I could no longer find the post where I got this idea from. But Apartment Therapy is a great site to visit if you're looking for stuff to do in your house. It has several links at the bottom page leading to other sites, one of them is Unplggd where you can satisfy your tech craving.
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