Oooo any photos? 
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Hazel_1914
Here it is @MildredHubble.
MildredHubble
Very nice! Nice classic design and the old timey stile bulb sets it off very well! I assume it's a filament style LED bulb? I like that LEDs have made low energy bulbs more interesting. CFL bulbs just couldn't replicate those retro designs
Hazel_1914
It literally came out of a 40' dumpster, and is not an actual older fixture. (I need something with a grounding connection to keep up with electrical code, so no originals. Also I'm on a majorly tight budget.)
Yes I went with the filament-type bulb because since the bulb is exposed here, I wanted the visual interest. Wish I could have gone with a 40-watt or 25-watt. 60w is almost too much in the room.
Yes I went with the filament-type bulb because since the bulb is exposed here, I wanted the visual interest. Wish I could have gone with a 40-watt or 25-watt. 60w is almost too much in the room.
MildredHubble
I am also working on a kinda retro themed idea. Not as nice to look at as your lamp, but I'm going to make a raspberry pi based UHF "TV channel" which will basically just show episodes of the Simpsons, The Twilight Zone and probably Star Trek. I'm using a modified PS2 RF modulator. It should hook up to all TVs in the house. Something random to watch when nothing else is on
Hazel_1914
That makes sense especially with all the old electronics you have. I like that it's randomized.
The lamp is better than the flush-mounted "boob light" fixture that was there. Uses less power too. I'm sure the landlady will be furious but what she doesn't know won't hurt anything...besides my whole bedroom looks like we are stuck right in the 1880s-1910s so this lamp blends better. Still detest the popcorn ceilings.
The lamp is better than the flush-mounted "boob light" fixture that was there. Uses less power too. I'm sure the landlady will be furious but what she doesn't know won't hurt anything...besides my whole bedroom looks like we are stuck right in the 1880s-1910s so this lamp blends better. Still detest the popcorn ceilings.
Hazel_1914
It's very, very hard for me to keep house. Any little thing I can do to make my living quarters nicer, I try to do it, but my attention span is fragmenting worse & worse by the day. Sometimes I worry I might have ADHD. My life is falling apart as it slowly improves. OK that was darker than expected. I feel like I am slowly getting stupider...was supposedly "gifted" when small and am now struggling as adult.
Hazel_1914
But anyway that is why I am doing these kinds of projects. It is more of a motivation because the room isn't "complete" ever, so I'm always working on something. I found a lace dust-ruffle around here for the bed which I will never use, and it may become trim for a curtain valence (but not in the library, the style there is more hard-edged and masculine, more 1900-1920 instead of complicated Victorian nonsense.)
MildredHubble
I can't take total credit for the TV channel idea, I saw basically the same concept on YouTube but I'm using a much cheaper solution to broadcast the signal. I don't really watch real TV. It all seems too "doom-ey" these days. And I agree! I hate those horrid textured ceilings! I hope your land lady won't go mad! I'm sure your lamp is a vast improvement!
MildredHubble
I'm never finished either. I'm just getting back to some level of productivity in my house. Things always seem to have to go through several iterations and still are never completed. I also seem to have a "fractured" approach with things. It's really difficult to be consistent :-/
Hazel_1914
Good call on not watching much TV. I have a little radio that I use (a 3/4 scale replica '30s-style table set modded with a better loudspeaker) and listen to the news about once a week on that. Can't bother with much more than that. It sits in the living room most of the time and stays mostly turned off. I don't know how people have time to watch everything that comes out.
Hazel_1914
Fractured approach to things: hm. I have a lot of college to do. But instead I went out and cycled to the grocery, bought $15 worth of food, planned a potato soup, didn't make it, had to clean out the icebox, and am currently hiding in my library because I think there's sentient life in the sink now and I'm trying to keep it from developing opposable thumbs & finding the shot-gun I keep in the hall closet.
MildredHubble
I very much approve of your radio! I keep on saying that I'm a luddite, but I do like classic design. Technology was just somehow more fun and optimistic in previous decades. There's not quite as much of that with modern stuff and anything that tries to be tends to be a bit obnoxious with too many lights and sub woofers! 
I keep on saying that I'm a luddite, but I do like classic design. Technology was just somehow more fun and optimistic in previous decades. There's not quite as much of that with modern stuff and anything that tries to be tends to be a bit obnoxious with too many lights and sub woofers!
Light project--I dumpster-dove an old ceiling lamp, replaced the modern shade with an old-school glass octagon shade, & installed a 60w-equivalent LED bulb that is way easier on my eyes than a glaring new-fashioned bright white.