IKEA ceiling light shades and standard house fittings - will they work together?

_Whimsical_ · 2021-06-03 14:02:28

Has anyone got any experience of buying and fitting IKEA lamp shades, do they work with regular fittings we have here? All the fittings sold by IKEA will only accept extremely low wattage/lumen bulbs, they just wouldn't be suitable in my room at all so I'd rather buy one myself and attach the shade. This is the shade I…

03-06-2021 03:02PM

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Has anyone got any experience of buying and fitting IKEA lamp shades, do they work with regular fittings we have here?
All the fittings sold by IKEA will only accept extremely low wattage/lumen bulbs, they just wouldn't be suitable in my room at all so I'd rather buy one myself and attach the shade.

This is the shade I want

https://www.ikea.com/ie/en/p/jakobsbyn-pendant-lamp-shade-clear-glass-90333052/

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LEDs are all very low wattage so you could still have it plenty bright.

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