Making a well-fitting outer cover for your soft shade is critical to achieving an eye-catching and considered lampshade and today, we...

Velvet, it seems, is never out of fashion. Its opulent qualities lend a touch of luxury to our interiors and for lampshades, it’s no...

Although we imagine your lampshades are amazing, there may be some circumstances when a customer wants to return their shade. Dealing...

Rated highly by our professional lampshade makers, ‘Lampshades’ by Katrin Cargill at first glance might look like a very average and...

All our entries to our #memadeshade competition are unique, but once in a while, a lampshade wins that celebrates a slice of life. This...

With the preparations for making a traditional soft shade covered in our Soft Shade Making Series, it’s time to talk patterns! Making an...

Candid Owl's mission is to provide customers with unique, standout lampshades and lamps and they definitely don’t disappoint! With her...

A lampshade style that’s hit the limelight in recent years, or should that be the spotlight, is the ‘hard’ pleated lampshade, defined by...

Want to make a shade that stands out from the crowd? How about using colourful vinyl on the inside of your shade? Easy to apply and...

Packaging your skills in a way that gives the customer choice, can be a valuable way of increasing profit margins and effectively using...

Pops of colour are much needed as we finally start to leave the winter behind and this month's #memadeshade winner does not disappoint!...

Our third post in our Soft Shade Making Series is about laying the foundations for the lampshade ahead, namely binding your lampshade...

Gola is a creative collaboration of talent, skill and creative ideas of mother and son team, Mari and Ifan, whose stunning lampshades...

Welcome to our new Lampshade Style Guide! In our new monthly series, we’ll be looking at one particular style of lampshade and each month...

Making your own lampshades means the sky is your limit in terms of the materials, design and shape you opt for and today's Parchment...

Entering her first hard lampshade into our #memadeshade competition, January's winner, Amie of @tea_and _the _radio chose a vibrant...

Loving lampshade making shade is one thing, but making enough money to run a sustainable business is quite another. In this BEAM blog...

Far from ordinary, each of Romor Designs' lampshades has a wonderful, creative and individual story, very much like Romor Designs'...

In our second post of our new Soft Shade Making Series, today we're talking about binding tapes and how they are an essential part of...

Valentine, Galentines or Palentines is just around the corner and regardless of which one you celebrate, we’ll be helping you share a...