How To Make A Lamp With Your Own Hands From Scrap Materials: Photo Ideas, Step-by-step Instructions

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DIY lamps from scrap materials - ideas and instructions

Handmade projects help us to add brightness to the interior, to make it individual. One of the options is to make a lamp for your home with your own hands. Unusual details, materials, ideas and a little creativity - and the design item is ready.

DIY lamps: interesting ideas

There are many models of fixtures that you can make yourself. They differ in design, style, size. A wide variety of materials are suitable for their manufacture - paper, vine, plastic cups, yarn, fabric, glass bottles, plastic bags, wooden hoops, wire, veneer, old things or what is left after repair, etc. The easiest option is to do do it yourself lampshade and purchase a ready-made wiring system with a plinth. It is available even to the most beginners in needlework and creativity.

Wall lamps

You can install a beautiful home-made lamp on the wall near the bed, including in the children's room. Most often, unusual lampshades are made for this from wood, fabric, vines. But there are also more original options.

At the dacha, we made a lamp from two 0.75 liter cans and two pieces of board with unevenly cut edges. The boards are connected at right angles to each other, and the whole structure is installed on the wall of the house under the porch. The cans-plafonds are screwed in cartridges into which LED lamps are inserted. A lamp of this style is ideal for a country house or a rustic interior.

Photo gallery: DIY wall lamps

Vine is an interesting material for creating original lampshades

Very easy to make and at the same time look stylish lamps from the board

Thread, glue and balloons - everything you need to create beautiful lamps

You can make different versions of lamps from the board

A bizarre driftwood - an unusual base for a wall lamp

Clouds carved from plywood can be used to create a night light

Even pallets can be adapted to create a beautiful DIY lamp.

Table, floor lamps

It is easy to update a floor lamp from scrap materials or make a new table lamp in ethnic style, hi-tech, or others. Beads, ribbons, paper cuttings are used for decoration.

Photo gallery: interesting models of table lamps with your own hands

Eco-style interior can be updated by making a floor lamp with a wood shade

Long and thin branches, tied together in a bundle, attached to a stable support, are used to create a floor lamp

The frame from the old lampshade can be decorated with beads - you get a new lamp

Ribbons and beads can be used as base material for a new lampshade or as decor

Fabric lampshades - ideal for a table lamp in the bedroom

The lamp can be made from water pipes

Easy to knit lampshade for floor lamp

The original lamp is obtained from lids from aluminum cans

Pendant lights

Ceiling lamps made of yarn are widespread, with which balloons are wrapped, and then the entire structure is covered with glue. For many, such a simple option is the first try in this type of needlework. Chandeliers made of driftwood, bottles or suspended structures made of plastic pipes look more spectacular.

Photo gallery: DIY pendant lamps

A driftwood chandelier is a bright and stylish piece for the living room

You can quickly and easily make a beautiful chandelier from beads.

Wood material used for the manufacture of lamps must be varnished

You can decorate a kitchen or a country house with a bottle lamp

From plastic spoons they make beautiful lamps in the shape of a pineapple, a ball, or so on.

A lamp made of metal bars - a stylish and functional decor for the kitchen

Remains of water pipes and fittings - unusual material for a ceiling lamp

How to make a lamp

Paper - corrugated, colored, geographic maps, cardboard, wallpaper, bags and other types - is one of the best materials for crafts. A simple paper butterfly lamp can be made quickly and effortlessly. To do this, you need a frame from an old lampshade, a metal ring or just a wire from which the base for the product is made. Then you just have to cut out the butterflies and attach them to the frame with silicone glue or, for example, hang them on a wire. It doesn't take long to make a table lamp out of plastic pipes or spoons, although the projects are more complicated than paper chandeliers.

Paper butterflies for a homemade chandelier can be cut according to a pattern with children

Origami lamp made of paper bags: step by step instructions

Such a luminaire can be made for wall, table or pendant. For work you will need:

• ready-made electrical base for the lamp - a wire with a socket and a switch, a plug (for a table lamp or floor lamp);
• stand for a lampshade (you can take from the old one or use materials at hand for this, for example, a thick branch);
• paper bag with an interesting print - 2 pcs. (when gluing, they must be at least 0.5 m long);
• LED lamp;
• thick thread and needle.

Operating procedure:

1. Cut the bottom off the paper bags and remove the handles.

2. Glue the resulting pieces into one, fold in half and then into an accordion. You should get 16 stripes of the same width.

   

   Prepared packages are folded into an accordion

3. Fold each strip diagonally. This part of the workpiece will subsequently be the top.

   

   The paper blank must be bent accordingly in order to later make a lampshade out of it

4. On the opposite side, which has remained flat, also fold each strip diagonally. This part is smaller in length.

   

   All folds on the bags must be symmetrical and even

5. Carefully unfold the packages and bend the workpiece along the resulting folds so that you get a lampshade.

   

   A volumetric figure resembling a berry is formed along the folds on paper

6. From above (where the folds are longer) sew the workpiece with a thick thread.

   

   To keep the lampshade in shape, it is fastened with a thread at the top.

7. Then insert a socket with a wire inside the lampshade, screw in the LED lamp and hang the structure on the stand.

   

   Since the paper burns well, it is better to use LED lamps in the lamp.

Diode chandelier from socket-splitters

An ergonomic and unusual loft-style chandelier can be made from socket-splitters for diode lamps. The finished structure is painted in any color that suits the interior of the room. It is important to secure all parts firmly. For work you will need:

• ceiling socket - 1 pc.;
• splitter cartridges - up to 12 pcs.;
• lamps - up to 12 pcs.;
• spray paint;
• paper.

You can make a stylish chandelier from the splitters

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Connect all splitters according to the chandelier diagram. It can be any - with a tree structure, asymmetric, etc. Over time, the shape can be changed.

   

   The shape of the chandelier can be any

2. Spread paper on the working surface, paint the workpiece on all sides with spray paint.
3. Wait until it is completely dry.

4. Paint the ceiling rosette only on the front side and dry it too. Reapply paint if necessary.

   

   It is convenient to paint parts with paint in a spray can

5. Attach a socket and a chandelier from the splitters to the ceiling.

6. Screw in all the bulbs.

   

   If you want to change something in the room, you can simply connect the fittings in a different way to get a chandelier of a new shape.

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Everyone can decorate their home with a new hand-made lamp. It is enough to choose an interesting idea and put in a little effort.