Transform your home with imaginative lighting that you have made yourself. It's fun and easy! Creating lamps to match your home decoration and reflect your individual style is what this book is all about. It covers all aspects of making lamps, including the basics of construction and making a shade. The 50 fantastic projects are organised into 3 sections: making lamps from ordinary objects - a favourite piece of pottery, an old coffeepot, a tree lamb, a flowerpot...; turning old lamps into great-looking new ones - with chinese decoupage, blue willow mosaic, velvet and gilding...; creating lamps from scratch - bamboo, paper, wrought iron, fabric, autumn leaves, copper pipe...