Many years ago, when we lived a five minute drive away from an Ikea, we picked up a lot of furniture, some of which we still use today. Something we ended up not using was a pair of Skyar table lamps, like this one:
There was nothing wrong with them, mind you. Nice clean candlestick design, and the heavy paper shade diffused the light from the bulb very well. Quality product. We just didn't have anywhere to put them when we moved into the house, and so they went up into the attic. I unearthed them not long ago during the big push to clear out and remodel, and by that time the paper shades were much worse for wear, so again we couldn't use them.
It was around this time, though, that Alex undertook his own major remodeling in his room, getting rid of the old loft bed and at the same time getting rid of years of clutter, which gave him room to move in some new stuff. And in thinking about whether he could use those lamps, I came across this design for a Death Star interior-style lamp shade. It was almost perfect. I had to tweak the design of the socket piece to make the hole a little larger, and I added some thin pieces printed in white filament to diffuse the light (could have used anything translucent, really, like some folded up layer of wax paper). Alex set them up on his dresser and put in some color-controllable LED bulbs for accent coloring. How did it work out? Pretty well, I think:
