Learn how to make a light fixture from wire, construction mesh, so that flowers can grow inside it. How to turn a snag into a lamp, and the branches of a tree into a floor lamp? Light sources make it possible not only to see better in the dark, but also add coziness to the room. There are various ideas that will tell you how to make a floor lamp, a lampshade with your own hands, but not only them.
How to make an original lamp?
A very interesting design piece is obtained from the simplest materials, most of which remain from a picnic. If you went out with friends, family, to nature, you must definitely remove the garbage after you. This not always desirable job is made more enjoyable if you ask to fold the plastic spoons separately. If children come with you, arrange a competition, who will throw more and faster spoons into a separate garbage bag or bag.
You will also need water canisters. After a fun picnic, arriving home, after a while, you can make original lamps from the packaging left over after the feast. Give them to your friends, keep them for yourself to hang in the hallway, in the kitchen or in the country.
So, here's how such a chandelier is created with your own hands or with the help of home. First, lay side by side:
- 5 liter oval plastic bottle;
- disposable plastic spoons;
- cable with socket and plug;
- low power LED light bulb;
- pliers;
- glue gun;
- screwdriver;
- stationery knife.
So that such original lamps do not lead to a fire, take an LED, not an ordinary Ilyich light bulb. For information: 4-5 W LED bulbs correspond to 40 W, and 8-10 W - 60 W conventional electric.
Carefully so as not to cut yourself, remove the bottom of the canister with a knife.
Also, observing safety precautions so as not to injure yourself, cut off the handles of each plastic spoon completely. Using a little hot glue from a gun on the cuts of the "shoulder blades", glue them to the bottom tier of the bottle. Usually 17 pieces go here. Then, with an overlap, attach the second and subsequent rows, staggering the elements.
To cover the neck, glue 10-12 spoon blades together to form a ring.
Pass the bulb holder with the light bulb and cable through the cut bottom hole in the bottle. If this "electrical" part is difficult for women, call your husband. If you don't have one, buy a cable from a hardware store with the socket and plug already screwed onto it. You can borrow this working part of the lamp from the old one.
Put on the top of the canister a "ring" of spoons, screw the lid on. To do this, let the husband drill a hole in it with a drill, and you yourself can do this manipulation with a hot nail or self-tapping screw, holding it with pliers. The original lamp is ready.
3 models of designer lampshades with your own hands
Ideas are in the air. If you are in the country and there is no such piece of furniture there, it is easy to make it yourself from what is at hand. Take:
- hollow dishes;
- wire;
- polyurethane foam;
- gloves;
- paint;
- brush;
- knife;
- pliers.
As a basis, you can use unexpected things: an old pot, a flower pot, an already unnecessary baby pot. Turn over any of these auxiliary items, lay them upside down on a flat surface. Wrap the wire, its turns repeat the shape of the future product, should be the same as the lampshade will be. With your own hands, but with gloves, take a spray can in your hands, squeeze out a little foam from it onto the frame, closing the wire, let it dry.
After that, make the contours more even with a knife, cutting off the excess. Paint in your favorite color, white looks airy and elegant. Such a lampshade, made with your own hands, will decorate a summer cottage. You can make several and hang them here. By avoiding large expenses, this way you decorate the space.
This lampshade looks stylish and modern, while the next one has a classic look. For it use:
- thick wire;
- pliers;
- a small plastic water bottle.
Let's start making a lampshade with our own hands by making the upper center piece. To do this, wind 1 turn of wire on the bottle, remove it, cut off the excess, twist the ends to make a ring. Its diameter should be such that the cartridge can be threaded from below, and it kept on the ring, would not come out through the top.
Now roll the large outer ring out of the wire. We will fix it. To do this, cut 4 identical pieces of wire with pliers, fix the first end of each on the small one, and the second end on the large ring. The upper part of the lamp is ready.
The size of the lampshade depends on whether it is made for hanging from the ceiling or for a table lamp. The first is larger than the second. Roll the bottom ring out of the wire, it is the largest. Connect it to the second top five pieces of wire, spreading them evenly. It remains to decorate the frame of the lampshade. To do this, pass the wire through the second ring, twisting it in a wave-like fashion and twisting it through the base. Also design the second ring.
It remains to sheathe it with fabric. Attach the flap from the second top ring to the bottom ring, cut to size, adding to the seam. Cut off the large sides of the resulting rectangle. Stitch the fabric from the side directly on the frame, decorating this place with braid. That's it, you made a wonderful lampshade with your own hands.
If you want to get acquainted with the most modern ideas on this topic - please! In skilled hands, the construction mesh will turn into a stylish lampshade.
With your own hands or, having summoned a man, cut a rectangle from her with metal scissors. To fix the holder, twist a circle out of the wire, fix it on top of the lamp with four pieces of wire.
If you do not have a coarse mesh, use pliers to trim off the extra sections to increase the distance between the strips of wire. Paint the lampshade and the frame is ready.
And now the magic begins. You can make an original lamp that will benefit not only people, but also plants. Attach a flowerpot with a flower at the bottom of the lampshade. You can tie, woven using the macrame technique, to the lower turns of the wire with a thick rope. Check that the mount is secure.
If there is a man and a welding machine in the house, encourage this tandem to make a metal ring with "rays" that need to be welded to the bottom of the luminaire.
If you have an indoor climbing plant, such as ivy, run its lashes between the mesh of the trellis. The original lamp will become a flower house. It is better not to use ordinary light bulbs, as they are very hot and can burn plant leaves. Plus, the air around the flowers will be too hot. Screw in an LED or fluorescent light bulb.
For such an original lamp, you needed:
- construction mesh or strong wire;
- brush and paint (optional);
- pliers;
- light bulb with a cartridge;
- flower.
You can well fix the cups with seedlings on such a lampshade, thereby finding additional space for growing it and conditions for lighting in the evening.
We make a floor lamp, a table lamp with our own hands
While walking in the woods, do not pass by the ornate driftwood lying around. Put it in a bag, take it with you. Wash at home, if there is bark, peel off with a knife. Rub over the surface with a fine sandpaper, if necessary. Cover with wood varnish.
In order for the table lamp to hold well, the snag must be screwed to a sturdy pedestal with self-tapping screws. It must be heavy enough. An oak is suitable for him. If you find a broken branch of this tree in the same forest, saw off a 5–7 cm thick circle from the thick part.
It will also need to be sanded and varnished. When these wooden blanks are dry, connect them with self-tapping screws of sufficient length, passing them first through an oak stand, and then, plunging into a snag. Bolts and nuts can also be used.
You already know how to make a lampshade with your own hands. Therefore, make it and attach it to the driftwood, tying it with wire.
If the old floor lamp stand is no longer happy or you just want to decorate it, use wood for this as well. See how birch racks look good. Attach a branch of this tree to a lamp and see what kind of floor lamp you could make with your own hands.
How to crochet a lampshade?
If you are fed up with an old floor lamp, you can transform it with your own hands, giving it a "zest". Take the lace tape and sew it onto the top and bottom of the fabric lampshade. You can decorate with glitters by gluing them in the form of a pattern, evenly or randomly.
A floor lamp or chandelier will turn out to be unique if you knit a lampshade for them with your own hands. This can be done with crochet or fine knitting needles. For the first option, you will need:
- hook;
- cotton thread;
- pattern for knitting napkins;
- water;
- starch;
- ribbons.
You can use, for example, such a pattern for a napkin.
Measure the upper circumference of the lampshade, we need its diameter. Tie a chain from air loops. Next, knit in a circle based on the napkin pattern. Measure the height of the lampshade and the diameter of its bottom circle. Based on this data, draw a trapezoid or rectangle (depending on the shape of the lampshade). Crochet this shape. Sew on the side.
Using single crochet stitches, tie the upper circle of the lamp and this trapezoidal or rectangular part.
Boil a glass of water, stirring occasionally, pour in 200 ml of cold water in which 1, 5 tbsp is diluted. l starch. Boil for 1 minute, remove from heat, cool. Lower the knitted lampshade here, soak well, then wring out, let the water drain, and the canvas dries, but remains slightly damp.
Put it on the shade. To keep the knitted lampshade well, you can skip a few ribbons or ribbons between the loops, tie them.
Plafonds look very beautiful if they are decorated with crocheted flowers.
A solution of starch or PVA will help to shape the knitted lampshade. Put it on the frame, apply glue, let dry. In the second case (when using knitting needles), you need to make calculations for knitting, draw a pattern by the standards of the lamp, knit a trapezoidal or rectangular lampshade. Such models are suitable for floor lamps, chandeliers of a strict form. If you need to crochet a semicircular lampshade, first make the wedges, and then connect them with single crochets.
Here is another openwork chandelier. It is pleasant to make muslin with your own hands and decorate the bottom of the product in a circle. But first you need to create the lampshade itself. The crochet pattern for this beautiful thing is presented right there.
A table lamp will look amazing on the bedside table if there is such a lampshade on it, the knitting pattern of which is also given.
If your son or daughter does not let you finish the work, demanding attention, invite the children to make a lampshade too, let them twist the strips of paper into tubes with their own hands. Better to wrap them on a thin pencil, or on a wooden sushi stick, and then glue the free edge so that it does not unfold.
Now you need to glue the resulting blanks using an object of a suitable shape as a frame, for example, a 5-liter canister. Having made the first inner layer, have the child move on to the second. There should be several of them to close the gaps. When the PVA is dry, cover a table lamp with this lampshade or hang it from the ceiling. Looks original and extravagant.
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