Burlap Lamps and a Living Room Update

So I have an extra special post today. Well alright maybe not that special but I was super excited about it. I finally finished updating these lamp shades that I bought back before the summer. I decided to copy the following pin from pinterest and cover these beauties in burlap. I mean seriously whats not love about burlap.

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Well in my typical fashion this took me entirely too long to complete. This could be because I started this late on night and quickly faded and lost interest. However now that it is done I am so glad I finally completed it. I think it really adds a lot to our living room without competing with everything else in the room.

Steps to make your own burlap lamp shades:
(I followed this tutorial)
Step 1: Cover your existing lampshades with burlap. This will be your base for the burlap ruffle strips

Step 2: Cut your burlap strips to the size needed to ruffle them but not too long.

Step 3: Warm up your hot glue gun and then start adding your burlap strips with no particular pattern or order. (The more random the better.)

as you can see I thought about not adding a burlap base. (Bad Idea)

See how easy that is. Anyone with a glue gun can do it!

The other minor update that we have done recently in this room is to add new curtains. We made an impromptu trip to Ikea about a month ago and I purchased these curtains then. My original intent was to paint large navy chevrons on them but then I decided I really like them plain white. It makes this room feel so much bigger. We are also going to raise up the curtain rods just a tad bit.

What do you think of our new lamps and curtains? Have you made any living room updates lately? I would love to hear about them if you have.