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Jeff Fuller of Fuller & Son Hardware in Little Rock enjoys taking black iron pipes, fittings, lamp sockets and wires and creating pieces of functional art.
He adds Edison-style light bulbs, and sells the unusual lamps to everyone from artsy customers to contractors at Fuller & Son’s Heights store, which is the sixth and newest location for the family-owned chain.
Fuller started making the lamps in 2014 after he noticed similar products selling for $175 or more online. He thought he could be just as creative and add some unique and fun products to the new store’s inventory, while offering customers a better deal. He sells his lamps for between $59 and $100.
Fuller & Son stores sell all of the parts for making the lamps except for the clear fingernail polish Fuller uses to set the pipe joints. He enjoys coming up with unique designs, fitting the pieces together and then selling his works of art.
“The fact that people are seeing these and buying them and putting them in their houses—it does my heart good,” Fuller says.
