Dear Gail: I’ve been looking for new lamps for my living room, and I like that the stores now have mix-and-match lamps and shades. But how do I go about selecting the right shade for a lamp? Nicole ...

This is a short and shady tale about lamps. It starts with the lamp base. Sometimes we have the lamp base and we just “have” to replace the shade because it no longer matches the room’s paint color or ...