We've always fancied a cheese grater lightshade for the kitchen - couldn't find a picture to use in this blog, but if you check out 'Hingham House' on
Pinterest you can see one. Basically, it's a lightshade, made out of a cheese grater. Simple as that! So the plan was to get a grater and just drill a hole through the handle, pass the cord through and attach the light fitting bit so that the bulb hangs in the body of the grater. But there was a (major) problem... couldn't find a cheese grater that was big enough to get a light fixture and bulb in! They all seemed to be too narrow at the top.
The next logical step seemed to be thinking about what items of stainless steel kitchenalia ARE big enough to fit a lightbulb in - and so the cutlery drainer light shade was born! (We did think about using a colander, but decided that the drainer would obscure more of the bulb itself from view and that would be good because lightbulbs are not very attractive.)
Admittedly, it doesn't have the same immediate impact as the cheese grater, but it does make for a cheap, original and stylish (is it OK if we say that?) shade in the same vein.
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