Crap to Fab Lamp

I had a $10 Walmart crappy flimsy floor lamp.  I hated it.  My husband needed the light.  I needed to make it prettier.

So, I took this lamp:

This tube that came from a bolt of fabric that I bought:

And this table runner:

And made this:

The metal pole was so skinny, and I was adding a lot of "beef" to the top of the lamp, so I need to bulk up the bottom.  I spray painted the fabric bolt and the base of the lamp so it would all match.

The fabric was a little too short, so I added a little bit of a paper towl roll, and used painters tape to hold them together:

Classy, I know.  Hey, it could have been a toilet paper roll!

I had a drum shade from a lamp that has been in a closet, so I stole it, stripped it and used it to make the shape of the lamp shade

I just cut the table runner down, and then glued the two ends together after wrapping it around the naked shade.

Total cost to me: FREE

Total cost if I didn't have all this stuff laying around: $14

Lamp $10

Table runner $4 (from Ross)

Before:

After

I'm linking this up to:

Between Naps on the porch

Twice Remembered
It's so Very Cheri
The Shades of Pink
Thrifty Decor Chick, Before and after party