You’re Modern! Contemporary Wooden Table Lamps

Contemporary Wooden Table Lamps You’re Modern! - Floor lamps do a lot for a room. They can increase overall light, add task lighting or just make a room beautiful. The type and style you buy depends on how you’re going to use it. A torchiere lamp floods the ceiling with light just like overhead lighting does. Place one in the living room, bedroom or any room you need ambient lighting. For activities like reading a book or writing a grocery list, look for a floor lamp like this. The downward shade provides the focused light you need. To cover more ground, try a multidirectional floor lamp. You can twist and turn the lights in all directions – it’s like three lamps in one. When deciding on style, look around the room at your existing decor and finishes for style cues. Do you have a neutral couch? A patterned lampshade is always fun, or try one in a bold color to breathe new life into an outdated lamp. Is your room a tad on the dark side? A linen or cotton lampshade lets more light through. Wider shades do too. Just make sure the lamp shade covers the light socket. And you also want to be sure the light bulb is at least 3 and a half inches from the shade on all sides. Once that’s done, plug in your new lamp and unplug with a good book.

We have the lamp basically assembled, the base and the shaft, and now we're going to drill a hole, for the lamp cord. So, we'll just drill about a half inch hole, right through the middle. Contemporary wooden table lamps It doesn't have to be centered, as long as it's inside this shaft, because the wire is going to go up the middle, so I'll just go ahead and drill that hole. There we go. Now, that hole goes all the way through this base and through the second base and through the cap, that's in the center of the shaft that we should, when we were putting it together. So, now we've got a nice channel for your wire. Another thing I did, is that I used this round file and filed a groove, right here, through this support piece. This is for your lamp cord to come out, after you wire this up, you're going to need a place for the wire to come out. What you can do, if you want, is file one of these, on all four corners, so that you can turn the lamp any way you want to. In this case, I'm only going to do one but you can do four, if you want. So, now we're ready, for a later stage, of wiring the lamp up.

Today we are going to make a lamp from some old fence board wood side table with built in lamps. This is an example, this is the body of the lamp without the lampshade and without the wires and all that stuff, this is just the basic shape of it. We make this out of old fence wood, and the tools we're going to need are: a drill with a wire brush (this is a soft wire brush made of copper, you can get it at your local home store); a half inch drill; a nail set; a sure form plane, (this is very handy for trimming and working on this rough wood); a regular hammer and some finish nail; and later on, some construction adhesive and probably some glue. Now we're going to take a look at some of this old fence wood, and we'll talk about how to make it work for you so it makes a lamp.