Handmade items fill the house with special warmth and comfort. Plus, they are exclusive. We offer an overview of lamps that will completely change the atmosphere in the room, turning into an object of envy from the groans of friends and relatives. Moreover, they are made from everyday items that are usually thrown away.
A cardboard bag for juices or other drinks is a common thing in most homes. Most of the time it gets thrown away. But the Malay designer Edward Chu spent a lot of time to cut them into hundreds of strips and build amazing lamps from them without a drop of glue, a simple origami principle.
Yaroslav Olenev proposed to make lamps from disposable plastic spoons and became the winner in the nomination "Ecology and Design" from the magazine "Future Now".
No less original application was found by Natalie Simpson for ordinary wooden hangers. But they look amazing in the form of a chandelier.
Kevin Chempeny must be given credit, not everyone has the strength and patience to string 14 thousand bears to get a chandelier.
Tira Hilden and Pio Diaz have their own vision on the problem of housing lighting. Thanks to their lamps, the room becomes like a forest. All walls come to life and turn into trees.
Talented welder Matt Ludwig was also an excellent designer. For JJ's Red Hots restaurant, he made an incredibly original chandelier from an old drum set.
Texan artists Joe O'Connell and Blessing Hancock made stunning lamps from old bike parts and hung them in a tunnel under the highway.
It will probably be difficult to find a more original chandelier than a pumpkin from a Polish artist. It carves stunning patterns on the peel that do not repeat.
Felt hat lampshades from Jeeves & Wooster look original and stylish.
Once Heather Jennings saw an amazing Rhododendron chandelier in the store, only it cost more than $ 800. Then the designer decided that she could do just as well with her own hands. To do this, she needed paper molds for cupcakes.
11. Chandelier in the kitchen
A chandelier made of ordinary metal tetrahedral graters will look incredibly beautiful.
Still fresh in my memory are vases and candy bowls made from openwork napkins. Now it's time to knit chandeliers.
Fansois Lego offers a strange option, he believes that the best way to store cutlery is a chandelier.
A large cloud is cut out of wood, but the rest and the switch are made of cardboard.
A few globes can make a wonderful cascading chandelier, a great way to light up a flight of stairs.
If you want an ordinary metropolitan apartment to look like a place of unique beauty, then in order to achieve this, you can use one of the most popular methods today.
Some invite designers home, while others simply take the initiative in their own hands and look for how to make a lamp with their own hands in order to quickly and easily transform the space in the apartment at their discretion.
Of course, in order to get started, in any case, you will need a certain amount of various materials at hand, as well as certain knowledge in the assembly and subsequent installation of electrical appliances.
If you have not encountered the latter before, then you should not immediately get upset, since absolutely all the rules can be found in the public domain on the Internet and there is nothing complicated about them.
The basic principles of correct lighting in the room
The use of absolutely any lighting device must first of all comply with the main principle - ensuring accurate access of light in a predetermined space.
Where and how the light source will be located will subsequently have an impact on the overall picture of the perception of the interior of the room.
At the same time, if you look at the photo of the lamp, the following goals become obvious:
- To achieve the maximum working atmosphere;
- Create an interesting decorative effect for relaxation;
- Focus on a specific part of the room;
- Illuminate locally the space required, for example, exclusively for personal needs.
Thanks to the installation of a table lamp, it is quite easy to achieve high-quality access to lighting in a particular place.
What color scheme will be fashionable this season?
Of course, the lampshade for the lamp plays a special role in the external transformation of the room. So, for example, if the design of the room was originally made exclusively in dark shades, then in order to slightly enliven the general appearance of the room, you can, for example, make the table lamp a bright green color.
Another interesting way to give the room originality is to paint the simplest ceiling with interesting lines and even geometric patterns.
Most designers advise using this option if the room is initially made in fairly warm colors. It is worth noting that this option is not recommended for use in children's rooms, since lighting in any tone will be more familiar to them.
Speaking of exceptionally neutral color schemes, various monochrome shades are especially distinguished, as well as aqua, gold, and shades of pink, which are popular this season. Any of these flowers can cheer you up in just a few minutes.
The sequence of actions when creating a lamp
Despite the fact that many are sure that it is extremely difficult to make a lamp with your own hands, in fact, only a few simple elements are needed for work, which can be purchased at almost any store, and in general, creating a lamp does not differ in difficult moments in work.
The first thing to do is to make a detailed plan for yourself. This is necessary in order to have a clear idea of how much material will be spent on the installation of electricians in the future.
In addition, it is necessary to make measurements in the room, namely, to find out what is the distance from the location of the device to the point where it can be connected to the network in the future. It will also affect how much money you have to spend.
It is also important to take special care to ensure that the assembly and subsequent installation process is completely safe.
If you assume that the work will in any case necessarily involve direct contact with various chemicals, then it is worth preparing an apron, gloves with goggles, and also a forced exhaust.
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Safety measures are definitely not something that should be neglected, because when creating a lamp with your own hands, the process should give you extremely pleasant emotions.
DIY lamp photo
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Lighting is the most important component of the interior. The coziness and comfort level of our home depends on the lighting. The play of light and shadow allows you to beat the winning moments of the interior and divert attention from bad moments. And also - lamps, floor lamps, chandeliers and lamps create the atmosphere that we call "home". Unique lamps will help to make a dwelling only “your own”, personal, individual, and the best way is to make a lampshade with your own hands. Homemade plafonds and lampshades are the thing that will make your home stand out from the rest.
A few words about security
In the manufacture of lamps, floor lamps and chandeliers in industrial conditions, the minimum distance from the "body" of the lamp to the materials is preliminarily calculated. This distance depends on the power and thermal radiation of the lamp and on the type (combustibility) of the material from which the ceiling / lampshade is made. At home, hardly anyone will bother with such calculations. And in order not to create a dangerous situation, it is worth adhering to certain rules.
And in general, having made a lampshade and installing it, in the first few days, pay attention to whether the ceiling heats up. Heating is any increase in temperature above ambient. If the lampshade feels “warm”, change the light bulb to a less powerful one. Check again. So until the homemade lampshade warms up.
Where to get a frame
If you want to remake an old lamp, floor lamp, sconces in which the old lampshade has become unusable, you can simply use the existing base by peeling off the old material. Before starting work, inspect the frame well, if there is rust or a damaged coating somewhere, maybe it’s worth stripping everything off and painting it again? At the same time, the color can be changed. If there are no old frames, you can buy an inexpensive lamp (in a store or at a flea market) and do the same operations with it. Good lampshades can, by the way, be made from waste baskets. They are wire, there are plastic. The main thing is to find a suitable shape and size. Then make a hole in the bottom for the cartridge. Further - it's up to decoration / plating, and here there are a lot of options.
If this method is also not available, you can make a lampshade without a frame (there are some) or make a frame yourself. The material for making a frame for a lampshade with your own hands is: wire, wood (wooden or bamboo sticks, specially cut elements), plastic bottles.
How to make a frame for a homemade wire lampshade
The wire for the lamp frame needs aluminum or steel. Aluminum is easy to work with, but wrinkle easily. This is not very important when the lampshade is already in use, but this fact must be taken into account during operation: you can ruin the shape. On the other hand, such plasticity allows easy and simple changes in the shape during operation. So that's a good option. Aluminum wire can be "mined" from electrical cables. You will have to remove the protective shell and you can use it.
Steel wire is more elastic, so it retains its shape well. It can be found in the construction market. It's harder to work with her. It is desirable that there were strong male hands nearby.
In addition to the wire, you will need powerful wire cutters and pliers to work. The frame of the lampshade usually consists of two rings and racks connecting them. The shape of the future lampshade depends on the size of the rings and the shape of the racks. Questions may arise regarding the number of racks and how they are attached. The number of posts depends on the size of the rings and how "round" you want the lampshade to be. The more posts, the more “smoothly” the fabric will lie. So it's up to you to choose, but the optimal distance between the racks in the lower circle is about 5-6 cm.
Techniques for creating a frame for a wire lampshade
Methods for attaching the stack to the lampshade rings depend on the thickness and type of wire, as well as the tools you have. The easiest is to make a small hook at the end, then clamp it tightly. And so that the ring does not slide left and right, pre-treat the wire at the attachment point with sandpaper with a large grain. This is an option for thick aluminum wire. If the wire is steel, and with a diameter of 1.2-2 mm or more, the best way is. Thinner wire can be bent and wrapped around the ring or also made a hook.
If you make hooks, wind the wire, the appearance is far from being as ideal as that of factory frames. But this imperfection will be covered by the lampshade itself. If she still worries you, find a ribbon of a suitable color (usually matched to the color of the lampshade) and carefully wrap the resulting frame. It will get much better. The tape can be smeared with PVA glue and, wet, tightly, turn by turn, wrap the frame around.
wire mesh
If you can find a fine wire mesh, you can quickly make an almost perfect cylindrical shade for a floor lamp, table lamp, night lamp, candle shade, etc. All you need is to cut off a piece of mesh of the desired length and width, roll it into a ring and fasten the wires by wrapping them around the racks.
To prevent the mesh from straightening when cutting off a piece, cut so that long free ends remain on both sides. They will fasten the ceiling of a cylindrical shape. And the imperfection of the upper and lower rings can be masked with a tape of the desired color.
From a five-liter plastic bottle
An interesting shape lampshade can be obtained from a large plastic bottle. There are bottles of 5-6 liters and even 10. Here they can be used. From the container we cut off the top or the bottom - depending on what you like best. In the cut off part we make a ring for the cartridge. If the top is cut off, a neck can be used for some cartridges. For those with a larger diameter, it will have to be cut off.
Then we cut out the excess plastic, form the rims and racks of the ceiling. In order not to be mistaken, you can first draw all the lines with a marker. Cutting will be easier. Everything is elementary. Then we just decorate. And yes, it is necessary to cut out the plastic, otherwise the warm air will have nowhere to go.
We make lampshades on the frame
There are enough options on how to make a lampshade cover:
From tapes
The easiest and fastest way to transform an old lampshade for a floor lamp or table lamp is to use ribbons. You need a frame or lampshade in the form of a cylinder. It can be "naked" or covered with fabric. If you use a "bare" frame, the light will break through the cracks, which will create interesting lighting effects, but the lighting will not be uniform. Reading in this light is inconvenient - this is an interior solution. If you need even lighting, cover the frame with fabric first. It can be the same color as the ribbon, a couple of tones darker or lighter, it can be contrasting. Everything depends on your desire. And remember that the darker the fabric, the less light the lampshade lets through.
We take a tape 1-2.5 cm wide. We fix it from the wrong side of the lampshade with PVA glue, additionally fixing it with a pin. If you took a wire frame without fabric, we attach it to the upper or lower rim (you can sew it on with your hands, you can use glue). Then we begin to wrap the entire frame, from top to bottom, placing the turns of the tape close to each other, but without overlap.
Having finished the circle, we unfold the tape 90 °. We fix it in this position (with a needle and thread or PVA glue, glue from a gun, temporarily fixing it with a pin, pressing it with a clothespin). Then we skip the tape under the first tape, pull it out, lay it on top of the second one, then pull it down again, pull it up through one tape. So, gradually, we create an interlacing, filling the entire lampshade.
Alternatively, you can skip two vertical tapes. But then you need to make sure that each next row moves one crossbar. Then you get a different type of weave. Such a lampshade is ideal for floor lamps, since it will direct the light downwards, scattering through the walls will be small.
In this version, the ribbons can be the same, they can be of the same color, but of a different texture, they can differ by a couple of tones or be contrasting. In a circle, the tapes can be started all the way, or you can - after a certain distance. If you find a wide tape and apply it with an overlap, then horizontal ones will not be needed at all. And if you use a braided or twisted cord (in the lower photo on the right), we get a completely different lampshade in appearance. So only this technique of finishing the lampshade gives a lot of options.
Let's briefly present the ideas. There are many options for how you can design standard frames for lampshades in a non-standard way. The first method has already been voiced: you can knit a lampshade cover on knitting needles or crochet. Several options in the photo.
Not everyone knows how to knit. It is easier to work with beads, especially if you glue them. You can decorate an old fabric with beads, sequins, beads of various shapes and sizes. You can make such a “new-old” lampshade with your own hands in a couple of hours. You select the decorations that match the color, coat the fabric with PVA glue, stick the decorations. To complete the look, you can assemble pendants from beads and beads that are attached to the lower rim, but this is already painstaking work. Although the effect is interesting.
You can sew a new lampshade out of fabric. But it is not necessary to make it an updated copy of the old one. Fantasy must be turned on! If the lamp or floor lamp is in the girls' room, a new cover for the lampshade can be made in the form of a skirt. The style of the skirt is up to you. Interesting look in the fold. With and without ruffles.
In the boy's room, you can use an old geographical map. They are on thick paper. If the paper is not thick enough, first you need to stick the card on cardboard, and then glue the lampshade from such a blank.
Original shades are obtained if the finished frame is braided with threads or ropes. Ropes can be natural. In this case, they are gray, brown beige. You can find thin synthetic colored cords. Of these, more "fun" in color products will turn out. The situation is even simpler with knitting threads. They are thin, thick, textured, with a smoothly changing color. In general, there are a lot of options.
We take the frame and braid it according to a certain pattern. You can start with racks. Braid each rack with a pigtail (the length of the threads should be 3 times the height of the rack). When this work is finished, we begin to stretch the threads / ropes between the racks. They will need to be passed through pigtails, so it is more convenient to do this with threads with a needle, and the ropes can be pushed through like that.
The second option is to first entangle the entire frame horizontally, and then braid the racks. A pigtail will no longer work here, you just need to fix the turns on the rack with oblique stitches with a certain slope. This version is somewhat simpler in execution, but the “pigtails” look more decorative.
Homemade ceiling lamps without a frame
Many materials are rigid enough to hold their shape on their own, yet malleable enough to be made into something interesting. There are a lot of such homemade lampshades. And almost all of them are worth your attention. We give here only a part, the other part will go in the photo section (see below).
From knitted lace doilies
Many people have crocheted napkins and they lie in the “stash”, because it’s a pity to throw it away and they don’t know how to use it. There is a very interesting idea - to make a lampshade for a hanging chandelier out of them. In addition to napkins, you will need a large balloon or an inflatable ball, glue for heavy wallpaper (vinyl, silkscreen, etc.), a brush.
We soak the glue according to the instructions, wait until it swells. Inflate a balloon or take a ball, hang it up. When the glue is ready, lay out a napkin on some clean surface, coat it with glue, put it on a ball.
It is necessary to lay out with such a condition that in the center there will be a hole for the cartridge. Glue the napkins one by one. They need to be laid out so that the edges overlap slightly. When all the napkins are laid, once again coat them with glue and leave to dry. When the glue is dry, blow off the ball or ball (the ball can be pierced if you don't mind) and take it out through the hole. That's all, the lace lampshade is ready.
In some cases, there are problems with how to hang the finished lampshade on the cartridge. The problem is solved simply - take a transparent plastic bottle, cut off its neck, if necessary, expand the hole to the desired size (so that it fits tightly on the cartridge), then cut off the plastic so that you get a ring 5-7 cm wide. Lubricate this ring with PVA glue , and glue it to the lampshade from the inside of the ball.
Round plafonds made of threads
Almost the same technology can be used to make round and semicircular stylish shades. Choose the thread of the right color. Their composition is absolutely unimportant - the color, thickness and texture are important. They can be shaggy, smooth, twisted, thinner and thicker. It depends on the appearance. It is most convenient to work with cotton threads of medium thickness. They absorb glue well and then, after drying, keep their shape perfectly.
You will also need a ball or ball. This will be the base of the lampshade, which sets the shape. Choose the size of the base as you wish. The threads will need to be glued, for this you need PVA glue. It is poured into a container, diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 1.
You can use other glue. It is important that it becomes transparent after drying. These are WB-29 from TYTAN Professional and D2 joinery adhesive. If you use any of these types of glue, read the instructions.
On the ball or ball, draw a circle, which will be slightly smaller in size than the lamp socket. On the opposite side, draw a larger circle - this will be the lower edge of the ceiling. Now everything is ready, we can start.
We coat the threads with glue and wind them around the ball in a chaotic manner. It is more convenient to do this if the glue is poured into a container - you can lower the entire skein there, and just pull the thread slowly. With glue in a tube, everything is not so comfortable: you have to coat sections up to a meter long, rewind, coat again. Time goes much longer. This is if you do not use PVA. But on the other hand, the products turn out to be more rigid and do not sag, do not change shape over time, as can happen with filament lampshades on PVA.
When winding threads around the ball, we carefully go around the drawn circles. If you accidentally climbed into the "forbidden territory", we simply move the threads, forming an even (more or less even) edge. When the threads run out or you decide that there is enough density, the process can be stopped. We fill the edge of the thread between others. All. Then we coat the ball with wound threads again with glue (PVA can be watered) and leave to dry (at least 2 days). To prevent the ball from rolling, we find a bowl or pan and use it as a stand.
The last stage is to blow off the ball or ball. If the ball has a nipple, press it with a thin wire, releasing air. Take out the dropped ball. That's all, you can thread the lamp inside and test the lampshade.
The technology is the same, but the appearance is very different…
According to the technology described above, it is possible to make not only round shades. Rectangular, triangular, trapezoidal. Choose a base that is easy to remove, wrap threads soaked in glue, braid, even sticks, newspaper tubes, etc. After drying, remove the base and, behold, you have made a lampshade with your own hands. A couple of examples in the photo below.
You can also use chopsticks... Just wrap the ball with cling film too and use not PVA glue, but transparent carpentry
It's a paste-like polymer clay in a tube that's been applied to a milk carton, then dried and the bag removed...
Creative homemade shades for lamps, floor lamps and chandeliers
You just wonder what people don’t make beautiful and unusual things from. Plafond from a cup, grater, bottle, beer or glass can, metal parts and beer can rings ... It seems that everything can be used ...
Lampshade from an old sieve ... stylish
Candlesticks turn into lamps ... without lampshades
You can’t tell in life, but these shades are made of hooks used to open metal cans for drinks and canned food… if they are painted, it will be even more interesting
Don't know what to do with grandma's crystal? Make plafonds out of it ...
A table lamp, of course, can be bought in a store, but it is far from always possible to find exactly what you need, especially if you want no one else to have the same one. However, this lighting fixture is not so complicated, and if you wish, you can make a table lamp with your own hands, which will significantly save money. And in any case, a home-made lamp will be exclusive, and it will be much more pleasant to use it, because a piece of your soul is invested in the product.
In this article we will tell you how to make a table lamp with your own hands.
To make a table lamp with your own hands, you will need:
- 2.5 meters of two-core cable (in our case, in a transparent sheath)
- chuck with switch
- incandescent lamp (it is desirable to choose a lamp of an unusual shape)
- board 50×100 mm (dimensions may vary, it all depends on the size of the lamp)
- flange with hole for ¾-inch pipe
- 100mm tubing with ¾" threads
- adapter from ¾ to 1 inch
How to make a table lamp
Saw a board with a section of 50 × 100 mm into 4 pieces of the desired length. In our case, the length of the segments was 220 mm. Planks can be stained or painted in the desired color. Glue the boards with wood glue and fix them with clamps.
Assemble the flange, pipe and adapter together. Metal parts can be painted or left as is.
Drill a hole in the bottom of the back wall of the wood base. The hole diameter is selected according to the cable section.
Pull the cable through the base and metal post
Connect the cable to the socket with the switch. Insert the cartridge into the adapter and fix it there. To do this, simply press on the cartridge, and it will fit tightly into the adapter.
So the steampunk or industrial design table lamp is ready. It remains only to find a place to install it.
If such a lamp does not quite fit into your interior, you can give it a more familiar look by installing a lampshade.
The lampshade is better to buy in the store.
A handmade table lamp can become a highlight of the interior, dilute the overall atmosphere and make it more comfortable. A variety of different styles and types of table lamps will allow you to choose the most suitable option.
Using a table lamp is very good for creating additional lighting in a room. In addition, there are situations when the overhead light cannot be turned on or simply does not want to, in which case a table lamp saves. It fits perfectly into the children's room as a night light so that children are not afraid to fall asleep at night in complete darkness. In the office, its use is simply necessary, it greatly increases the convenience of reading documents, additionally illuminating the work surface. In the interior of the living room, such a lamp will give the room an atmosphere of comfort, moreover, an interestingly designed lamp can become a kind of decoration.
Table lamps can vary in shape, style and purpose. These parameters can be so diverse that it is quite difficult to single out a few. In addition, in the modern world, designers strive for innovation, so they try to mix different styles and shapes, developing something unique and unusual. This approach to creating a table lamp can also be used in its independent manufacture.
When choosing a table lamp, pay special attention to the light source. It should not be too bright or dim. The best choice in this case would be the golden mean. In this case, the probability of pain in the eyes will be equal to zero.
How to make a table lamp with your own hands?
A beautiful table lamp is obtained from wood and veneer. Despite the ease and simplicity of execution, such a lamp looks very interesting and attracts attention. 
Materials and tools for self-manufacturing of the lamp
For a lamp, you can make a beautiful and unique lampshade with your own hands.
Manufacturing process
- Before starting, you should transfer the layout of the drawing to the base of the lamp, i.e. draw all the lines on a square segment of the tree. Designate places for installing bars, veneer sheets and the light bulb itself. You should also mark with diagonal lines where the holes will be;
- It is not necessary to drill the base through, it is enough for 0.5 of the thickness of the wooden piece. Next, you need to drill each of the bars and insert dowels into the resulting holes. In the center of the stand, make a hole equal to the diameter of the light bulb socket so that it sits tightly in it and does not hang out;
- To make holes for placing the veneer, we make small cuts in the bars and stand using a disk-shaped nozzle. It is important to make cuts not over the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe base, but only from one hole to another;
- A hole for the wire is made on the base quite deep so that it completely closes there. It is better to make it also wide, so that later there is an opportunity to use fasteners;
- At this stage, it is worth carrying out finishing work. Sand all elements, paint if necessary, and varnish;
- At the end, we begin assembling all the parts of the lamp. First you need to glue the bars and let them dry, here you can install a light bulb and place the cord. Then, when everything is dry, insert the veneer plates between the bars.
Using this table lamp manufacturing scheme, you can modify its shape, color and texture. The whiter the veneer, the brighter the light will be, and vice versa. Instead of veneer, you can use other materials for playing with shadows.
Based on the style features of table lamps, and applying tips for making it yourself, you can create unusual lamps, turning your fantasies into reality. The main thing is not to be afraid to use at first glance completely incompatible materials and experiment.
Unusual handmade glass bottle table lamp. The process is easy and understandable to absolutely everyone, regardless of the practical skills of manufacturing such products.
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