everything's a story

So I inherited some lamps from my grandfather's office last week.  Or, actually, I just claimed them out of my mother's garage.  They came from this awesome building: my grandfather's building materials company.

My mom found the lamps in a storage room there a few years back, and she gave them a home in her garage, but they were pretty beat-up, and nobody really wanted them.

Actually, they were very beat-up:

But, inspired by the before & after pages at Design*Sponge, I got this idea that I...