Somehow, everything I fix ends up far uglier than it was when I started. But, I thought, what if I start with ugly? I tested the theory by rewiring an old lamp. I first sought counsel from experts.

An old lamp may look beautiful, but it can be dangerous. Rewiring it to make it safer is fairly easy in most cases. Here is how to do it, and a few extra tips you can try, too: • Unplug the lamp ...

Restoration and Design Studio owner Paul Karner’s decades of lamp-wrangling experience have given him the skills to, say, outfit an antique floor lamp with a nine-way switch or convert a candlelit ...