What is your price range?

Do you need unusual sizes?

Can you generally pick them out without the lamp there or do you need to try them on?

I need this also - price range = $30-$75 each for small/medium lamps, no unusual sizes, and yes I can generally pick them out..

I need about a 14x15x12, no unusual size. Just want good quality--hate chintzy shades. Not ultra expensive, but will pay for quality.

I guess everyone's definition of quality is different, but I have had good luck with shades from Pottery Barn. I also recently ordered shades from Lamps Plus that I'm very happy with.

I would say Restoration Hardware, Pottery Barn, Lamps Plus

I have also used this place for custom shades. My gripe about most available replacement shades is that they are too small if you have vintage lamps.

Here is a link that might be useful: The Lampshade Shop.

Are you a lamp tramp? I just adore lamps and can never get enough of them! I would kill for some Christopher Spitzmiller gourd lamps or some chunky vintage stacked lucite lamps. They are like the perfect accessories to me -- sculptural, tall, provide color and texture, and they provide ambient lighting. What's not to love?

I have at least eight spares including a pair of chrome ball lamps that have an aspirin bottle taped to the socket and an IKEA shade taped to that so it looks like I have bedside lamps in the second bedroom while my house is on the market. (They need to be rewired.)

*raises hand*

My name is Franksmom, and I'm also a lamp tramp. I brought home a pair of massive 1960's lamps to use for PARTS. The lamp base is a large glass ball, filled with dried flowers and twigs, and a pair of taxidermied quail...

DH took one look at them, declared them "cool" and wants me to rehab them and put them in the living room. O.M.G.

I might need some help with that particular lamp project.