The lamp’s base is composed of plaster forms cast from old food containers. Reusable storage containers like Tupperware will offer the most interesting shapes, but yogurt, cottage cheese and sour ...

Turn "flea market find" into French chic with this stencil idea from The Michaels Book of Arts & Crafts (Lark Books/Sterling, $24.95). With a little practice, you can light up a room with charm and ...

You can buy light bulbs with every kind of color temperature, brightness, and finish you can imagine these days. So the need for a lamp shade to diffuse, soften, and direct their light is all but ...

Even with the added hardware that lamp still looks relatively normal. But its behavior is more than remarkable. The lamp interacts with people in an incredibly lifelike way. This is of course inspired ...

With home decorating at an all-time high, it's not surprising that even the simplest accessories are taking on a new look. Witness the lampshade. Once limited to bell shapes in pale creams and ...

Algae is one of the newest materials to hit the market as a multi-purpose fiber. While it has been hauled out of the ocean, cultivated, dried and processed into myriad products, it typically loses ...