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The Art of Hardware

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.

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Jeff Fuller of Fuller & Son Hardware in Little Rock creates and sells functional art made out of products sold in his family’s home improvement stores.

About Kate Klein

Kate is profiles editor for Hardware Retailing magazine. She reports on news and industry events and writes about retailers' unique contributions to the independent home improvement sector. She graduated from Cedarville University in her home state of Ohio, where she earned a bachelor's degree in English and minored in creative writing. She loves being an aunt, teaching writing to kids, running, reading, farm living and, as Walt Whitman says, traveling the open road, “healthy, free, the world before me.”

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