Watch the film… you’ll get the idea. Our daughter company, Scape Form (more on Scape Form later), has been busy trying to devastate UPS.

Expect to see the Drumkt collapsable drum pendant light along with other shipping conscious pieces available sometime in the spring and summer.
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Drum Lamp Shades

One of the most popular and eye catching lamp shades is the fabric drum shade.  Drum lamp shades have straight vertical sides and are typically much wider than a cylinder lamp shade. When paired with the right base and the proper proportions, a drum shade has an appealing effect on the overall look of your room. Nowadays drum shapes are found on most floor lamps and are particularly good for spreading a maximum amount of light compared to shades of other shapes. Most drum shades fit on top of a harp, which can be adjusted by buying a different size harp from any large hardware store or lighting showroom. Seascape has a wide variety of shades in several shapes: and we also make custom lamp shades using your specifications. Our most popular size shade is a 16″ diameter by 9″ high, which fits on most of today’s lamp bases.

Having been in business for the past 30 years, our selection includes solid-colored silk, wood veneer, fiber-textured and linen lamp shades. And for the past four years, Seascape has had a lot of success with custom printing lamp shades here in our California lighting studio, south of San Francisco. Choose from many print patterns and specially-made designer prints, including several black and white patterns, as well as selections in earth tones, blues and even a bright red offering. Our visually appealing shades start at around $40 and go up from there depending on size.

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Lamp shades can really do a lot to change the intensity of the look in a living space or a business. When you have just the right shade, a plain or out-dated lamp base can become transcended out of the ordinary into an interesting and enjoyable lamp.  It can brighten and liven up the whole room, making it look newer and cheery. Most people are so used to to the typical tapered, off-white or white shade that they don’t think about the benefits an attractive shade can offer.  So whether the best fit for a given condition is a drum lamp shade or a cylinder or an oval- shaped shade, it is well worth taking some time to explore the possibilities, especially the lamp shades here at Seascape Lamps.

How to Select the Right Size Drum Lighting Fixture For Your Dining Room

One of our many specialties is providing innovative designs and solutions for residential drum lighting fixtures for dining room tables. Seascape Lamps has 30 years of experience in the manufacturing and production of drum lighting fixtures for dining room tables and for all rooms in your house or business. We also specialize in decorative drum lamp shades in all sizes and fabrics, as seen on our website.

When selecting the size and shape of your your drum lighting fixture, there are a few things to consider. The size of your room and table will dictate what size pendant lighting fixture you should order. Because Seascape makes all of their fabric lighting fixtures on-site, you can order just about any size that you want. Generally you want a fixture that is around half to a few inches bigger than the width of your table. So for example, if your table is 36 inches wide you would want drum lamp shade to be about 20 inches wide by around 9 to 10″ tall. All of our hanging light fixtures come with a white acrylic diffuser across the bottom at no extra charge so you’re not looking up into the bulbs. When deciding on size, we suggest locating an object around the house, like another lamp shade as a comparison; or maybe make a few cardboard cut-outs of several circles of varying diameters to get an idea of appropriate lamp size and scale above your table.

It is very important that your fixture is hung at the proper height and position. As a rule of thumb, you want to hang your pendant or drum lighting fixture at around 30″ above your table; although this rule can vary a few inches either way. The best thing to do is have someone hold the fixture above your table before you permanently install the light fixture. Sit down and look at it and then get up and stand in the dining room at different vantage points to make sure you like it in all positions. You definitely don’t want it so low that it gets in the way of your view of other guests across the table and you don’t want it so high that you and your guests can’t enjoy seeing the fixture and it becomes lost in the room.

A drum lighting fixture is just one of the shapes that you can pick from Seascape’s extensive library of shapes, for centering above your dining room table. The drum shape (our Thao hanging lamp) is one of our most popular shapes next to the narrow tall cylinder pendant light (our Lisha hanging lamp). Our fixtures offer more than just light; we consider them to be more like a functional artistic focal point of any room. Good lighting enhances the overall warmth and feeling of a room; it is a very important consideration when trying to set a mood and a design statement. And finally, we encourage you to make sure to have a dimmer switch installed on the wall so that you can control the brightness and balance of your finished overhead dining room lighting.