I love Restora­tion Hard­ware.  The neu­tral palette that they often fea­ture works well as a solu­tion to my big beige room. Unfor­tu­nately for me, their prices don’t work well with my solu­tion, so for the time being, I just look to them for some cre­ative inspi­ra­tion.  I needed a read­ing lamp next to a chair in my big beige room, and I really liked this one.

Lamp by Restora­tion Hardware

I hap­pened to have a micro­phone stand in my garage that my son left behind from his “I’m in a band” days, and it looked a lot like this lamp stand.

Very sim­i­lar, don’t you think?  Also in my garage I hap­pened to have a work light from the hard­ware store.

All I needed to do was spray paint this a dark bronze color and attach it.  Add one Edi­son style light bulb, and put it back together.

Restora­tion Hard­ware Inspired Lamp from memakeythings.com

Wow.  That was just too easy.