If you are in the market to buy a standard lampshade then you have come to the right place.

I will go through as much details as possible to hopefully enable you to make an informed and educated decision when buying the correct lampshade. Chances are you are here because you have a lamp in your house or may even be purchasing a shade for a friend or family. They are so basic yet a fundamental part of the décor in your house.

Get the colours wrong and it can be disastrous, on the flip side, get it right and it can add a lot more space, depth or even light shapes to an already dull or boring room.

Can you imagine having rooms full of lights without shades, a world with naked bulbs glaring everywhere? I thought not, this is why we have the humble standard lamp shades.

Choosing the fabric would be the best or first choice in the decision making process,you can either choose a tough durable fabric or a cheaper manufactured option. You could even go as far as choosing silk lampshades although these can cost and arm and a leg. The next step in the buying process would be to select the colouring, now depending on the room you are using this for, this could either rely on the colouroing of the exsisting brick and mortar or could be reliant on your current furniture styling.

The other route you could go down are glass lamp shades these are normally going to cost more but will be a lot more resistant to dirt and damage and tend to be easier to clean than your standard fabric lamp shades. Of course glass lamp shades can be a lot more intricate and hold abit of elegance to them, but going for a standard shade will do the same as any other

Lets talk about the diverse range of standard lamp shapes, in each of the two categories there are a lot of central shapes that lamp shades come in. For the nearly everyone lamp shades, glass or fabric will come in either come in barrel lamp shades or flared style shades. There are many variations within these two groups but for the most part these are the two main groups that there is.