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Where does one get 'hospital tracking' for curtains? Sounds perfect for my new dining nook!

A grape-ish purple would look great and give it some punch. Judging from the picture, it would go well with the roof as well.

A painted floor cloth. Curtains and de-cluttering. And -- and I'm cringing here as I type this -- I LOVE little white Christmas lights with wood. It's a nice warm and glow-y feeling.

Joanne's sells a self stick shade that you cover with fabric or whatever, but I've never been able to find one with that type of clip at the top. (It hangs off the bulb or screws onto the socket itself, right?)

It's easy to make a new shade using the wire rims from your grandfather's shade. Carefully cut the existing paper shade off the wire rims and use this as a template to figure out how much material you'll need. At the art supply store you can buy stiff plasticy-papery peel-off stuff for the shade and decorative paper (or use fabric) to stick to the outside (visable to the room) part of the shade. Trace your template onto both the sticky stuff and the decorative stuff, and cut it out and stick it together. Now wrap it around the wire rims using clothes pins or bulldog clips every inch or so to hold them in place. Glue and let dry. Then attach trim (again, clothespins or bulldog clips and glue) from the fabric store at the top and bottom of the shade to hide the rims.

I've covered several of these these home-made shades with fabric, and made an AWESOME one for my reading lamp using bits of lettering cut out of magazines. You'll probably find better directions on the web, but it's not hard to do.

I thought I was in a beauty salon until I got to the photos of the bedroom.