Every person wants to have their own cozy home, where they can truly relax and invite close friends. That is why the profession of a designer is very popular today. But nothing decorates an apartment or a house like home decoration made with your own hands. Such details have a special magic, because they exude soul, warmth and love. In addition, hand-made items are truly unique and inimitable things that will surely add an original zest to the design of any house or apartment.
For example, it is quite possible to make exclusive lamps with your own hands. Consider several options.
Floor lamp
Floor lamp, or floor lamp always creates comfort in the room - they say in the reviews. That is why making a floor lamp with your own hands is a wonderful idea. But fromwhy collect it? For example, from a tree. To be more precise, you will need the following details:
- Wooden cuttings (which are used for shovels, rakes) - 3 pieces
- Soda and water.
- Wire (not thinner than two millimeters).
- Matter of black and white color, not translucent.
- Thick white cord.
- Cable.
- Fork.
- Switch.
- Secrets - 3 pcs
- Cartridge.
- Light bulb.
- Instant glue.
- Hotmelt.
- Metal tube sized to fit socket and cable connection inside. The same tube should hold the cartridge itself.
- Acid soldering iron.
- White paint and varnish without color and gloss.
- Needle and thread.
- Screwdriver.
- Insulating tape.
- Heat shrink.
- Whatman - 3 sheets.
- PVA glue.
- Plastic washer.
- Wooden block.
Getting Started
Floor lamp making process:
- Connect the cartridge and the tube. For this purpose, the lugs on the metal holder on the cartridge are bent in the opposite direction, and a wrench is cut on the tube.
- Pull wires through the pipe. We connect the wire from the cartridge with the cable inside the tube. Everything is well insulated and poured from a thermal gun. A plastic washer is inserted at the junction of the cartridge with the pipe to center the structure.
- We create a support for a floor lamp from three wooden legs, equally spaced from each other withone side and connected with a wooden blank on the other.
- The whole newly made support is well coated with hot melt adhesive to give the future lamp better strength.
- The cable is pulled through the hole in the blank, the holder for the cartridge is fixed, and the plug and switch are attached.
- The legs are covered with several layers of matte varnish. The varnish is not randomly chosen without gloss, so that there are no glare if the light hits the legs.
- Making a frame for a lampshade. It is made of thick strong wire, which easily takes any shape. The shape of the lampshade can be absolutely anything that your imagination desires. It can be a cylinder, a pyramid, a square, and even a circle. Next, additionally cut off 4 identical pieces of wire to connect the mounting ring on the cartridge and our frame.
- A new lampshade frame is soldered with soldering acid.
- We neutralize the acid after soldering so that it does not corrode the metal over time. For this purpose, we mix soda with water and with this solution we thoroughly wash those parts of the frame that were soldered. After that, you need to wait until the frame is completely dry.
- Stretch the fabric over the frame. In order for it to take the necessary shape, we make the basis of several sheets of paper (drawing paper). The more layers, the less the lampshade will transmit light and enlighten.
- The selected figure is sewn from the fabric according to the measurements of the frame, and an elastic band is inserted along the edges or later, after the fabric is put on the frame. The edges are wrapped inside and glued to the paper with instant glue.
- Making paperplug inside the frame and glue it directly to the lampshade. If inconsistencies have accidentally formed on the frame, then it is better to replace the paper with a white cloth, which is more elastic and better hides ugly joints. The gluing process is done with hot melt adhesive from above and below so that the plug does not sag.
- Screw in the bulb.
- Remove traces of glue. If necessary, in some places we re-pass with varnish or paint.
- Put on the lampshade.
- Turn on the handmade lamp.
From paper
You can make a design from this material. So, let's look at how to make a table lamp with your own hands out of paper.
Materials to use:
- Lantern or lamp kit.
- Glue.
- Putty.
- Additional weight to the base (suitable, for example, a wooden block).
- Metal ruler.
- Cardboard for template.
- Heavy paper.
- Sanding block.
- Paint.
- Stationery knife.
- Drill.
- Art ribbon.
Paper table lamp making process:
- Create a special cardboard frame in the form of some geometric figure, which will be the basis of our lamp. It looks great when the selected figure is multifaceted.
- You need to make a pattern of as many triangles as you need to create the intended shape.
- From thick paper, using templates, a knife and an iron ruler, we cut out triangles with whichglue the cardboard template.
- In a similar way, we create a lampshade of the intended shape, connecting the parts and gluing an artistic tape to the seams.
- Let the DIY lamp dry for at least 12 hours.
- Reinforce all seams with glue from the inside.
- At the base of an old lantern or lamp, we add weight to give more stability by screwing a wooden block to it.
- We drill a hole in our paper construction for an electric cord and insert a sleeve.
- Insert the base of the lamp inside the cardboard frame.
- Pull the cord through the new hole in it.
- Glue the bottom to the base of the lamp.
- Glue the last top piece of the paper base of the lamp, pre-drilling a hole for the central rod.
- After drying, carefully remove the remaining glue by grinding.
- Putting our entire paper construction in a thin layer.
- After the putty is completely dry, sand with the finest sandpaper.
- Removing dust.
- Apply paint.
- Next, a light bulb is screwed in and put on a table lamp, created by oneself, a lampshade.
The idea with the old samovar
If you have an old samovar lying around in your country house or at your grandmother’s, even with a leak, you don’t need to rush to throw it away - make a lamp out of it with your own hands.
What you need:
- Old useless samovar.
- Paint.
- Lacquer.
- Decoupage (a pattern cut insidesheet of paper).
- Wire.
- Cartridge.
- Lamp.
- Lampshade.
Stages of work on the samovar lamp:
- First you need to prepare the samovar - clean it from any kind of pollution. If the appearance of the samovar is already quite scary, then you can first prime it.
- Paint (choose the color to your taste) we process the entire outer part of the samovar.
- When the paint is dry, start decorating with decoupage. We apply it to the surface of our future lamp and apply the paints necessary according to the idea. It turns out a drawing-decor.
- To fix the applied decoupage, apply varnish on top.
- We hide the wires inside the samovar, and install the cartridge with the lamp at the very top.
- We put on a lampshade, and our miracle samovar will literally shine.
LED backlight
LED lamps are not cheap, but they have a number of numerous advantages. For example, the phytolamp has a positive effect on the intensive growth and overall development of plants.
How to make a LED lamp for a greenhouse yourself? We will need an LED strip of red and blue colors in a ratio of 1: 3. After that, the tape is simply stretched directly over the plants themselves and that's it - the simplest phytolamp works. And such a lamp, created with your own hands, will help to significantly save on lighting the entire greenhouse. Reviews say that the costs in this case are minimal.
Colorful ribbons
A wide variety of ideas fora lampshade created by one's own hands can be invented using colored ribbons.
What you need:
- Old lamp with lampshade.
- Two or three different colored ribbons to choose from.
- Tube of glue.
Ribbon action plan:
- It is necessary to remove the lampshade from the lamp and measure it (we measure the outside).
- Cut tapes according to measurements.
- Begin to glue the ribbons from below. There are two options here: you can glue right next to each other, or you can at a distance. In the first option, the look of the lampshade will be radically changed, but the light coming from the lamp will be dim.
- Put the finished lampshade on the lamp.
Vintage lamp
An original DIY lamp and lampshade in vintage style can be made by simply transforming your old lamp.
Materials for work:
- Old lamp with lampshade.
- Napkins with different designs.
- Glue and brush.
- Pastel colored silk ribbon.
Vintage Lamp Technique:
- Napkins are cut and approximately placed on the lampshade so that the drawings are in order and look.
- Separate backing and front on each napkin.
- Brush the lampshade.
- Glue especially carefully the front thin sides of all napkins.
- At the top and bottom of the new lampshade, stick a tape that matches the color scheme.
Conclusion
That's it. As you can see, making a lamp with your own hands is quite simple. You need to have a minimum set of materials, a little desire, time and imagination. A unique lamp will be a decoration in absolutely any room.
