Dining Room

The room is HUGE!!! Its so bright and airy. Tutes on the lamps please??

I bought some metal tubing at the model train store. It's got a square profile, and about 1/16-1/8th" in size. I measured my actual buffet lamps for height then I cut the tubing proportionately. You have to pass the grain of wheat(or rice) bulb's wires down the tube first, before glueing to a base.

The shades took some calculating. I cut a semicircle shape from flocked paper. Here, you'll have to experiment for size. Wrap it around and glue it .To set the shade onto the bulb, I cut a circle from clear plastic,like the kind so many items are packaged in. The circle fits into the shade.You'll secure it with a dab of glue. You need a little hole, big enough to pass the wires through in the plastic circle. The bulb sits just above the hole. How big the circle is affects where it sits inside the shade. It also takes experimenting so your bulb doesn't end up sticking out above the shade.Then I used epoxy to glue it to a tiny flat button for a base. You can either have the wire come out above the base (if they're thin it doesn't show) or you can file or drill out a channel on the button underside, pass the wires through the button's hole, and exit along the channel you carved out.

I like the wires that are coated, not wrapped in plastic. They're thinner. Don't use hot glue on these wires...it melts the protective coating off. Your wires could short out.

Once you get going, you'll be looking at beads, figurines, all manner of possibilities for lamps. Have fun. Hope this helped.If I get around to making another maybe I'll take pictures.