If you are tired of boring and monotonous things in your apartment that you see every day, then it's time to diversify the design with the help of hand made. A DIY table lamp is a great way to get started. It does not require special skills and hassle, and the result often exceeds expectations. In this article we will tell you how to make a table lamp with your own hands, how to decorate it and how to connect it correctly. We have also prepared an excellent selection of photos for your inspiration for creativity.
DIY table lamp: the main structural elements
The most popular and simple materials for creating a table lamp with your own hands are: cardboard, paper, glass bottles, jars, plastic containers, pipes from the water supply system and cement. We will tell you how to make a lamp out of all this material.
The main structural elements in any type of table lamp:
- Electromechanical - provides stability to a homemade table lamp and a safe supply of power directly to the lamp.
- Reference - Supports a reflector or illuminator.
- Illuminator - a light bulb in a lampshade.
The wiring diagram of a table lamp is quite simple: a power plug, a cable, a switch, a bulb holder. Sometimes a voltage regulator is added. The cartridge for a narrow minion-base E14 is also attached to a thread or to a lamella in the form of a steel strip. For a do-it-yourself table lamp, the best option is chandelier holders with threaded collar flanges: between them you can clamp a steel faceplate with a lampshade frame or a clamp for mounting on a hinge.
A table lamp with your own hands must be electrically safe. This is especially true for lamps with hinges and consoles. You can create the safety of a table lamp using a simple scheme:
- The cable must be round, double insulated
- The conductive cores of the cable are flexible, made of numerous wires.
The cross section lived from 0.35 sq. mm. - The cable runs must be protected with solid dielectrics.
- Before entering from the inside, the cable is tied in a knot or pulled through the holes of the dielectric fixing washer so that it cannot break. Then the matter follows finishing and decorating.
Original lampshade for a table lamp with your own hands
The lampshade must be made taking into account not only the aesthetic aspect, but also the practical one. It is important to fix it correctly, as well as make a convenient hole for the light bulb. Paper, plastic and thread are the materials most often used to make a homemade lampshade.
The simplest and most convenient material is paper. To create such a lampshade, in addition to paper, you will need: threads, PVA glue, a sewing needle and scissors. There are many ways to make a do-it-yourself table lamp shade out of paper. The simplest method is to collect a ball of paper strips from the shade, while gluing them together and at the poles. The sphere-shaped shape will further strengthen the fragile paper lampshade.
It is also elementary to make a lampshade from disposable plastic cups, which are fastened with a stapler. This lampshade has quite good lighting characteristics, but at the same time the look is quite utilitarian. Such a lampshade is well suited for rooms in which high-quality lighting is required, but an aesthetic appearance is not required.
When making a lampshade from threads, you will need at least 100 m. It makes no sense to use balloons as mandrels, because after 10-20 turns the ball will start to protrude in different directions and spoil its shape. It is best to use a tightly inflated, sturdy ball for the mandrel. The mandrel must be lubricated with petroleum jelly. Then, having previously greased with glue, wind the thread around the ball. Remember to leave a hole for the cable and socket when winding. After a day, you need to blow off the mandrel, which, thanks to the petroleum jelly, will not stick to the threads. Also, the threads can be replaced with jute, sisal or propylene twine.
These lampshades provide an even soft light and therefore are perfect for any room.
How to update a lampshade for a table lamp with your own hands
Old, boring, shabby and burnt-out lampshades can be easily updated with the help of improvised means or even create a new one. We will tell you how to do it correctly and beautifully. You can take any textiles as materials. Using fabrics and threads, you can sew or knit a lampshade in the shape of a dress. It is easy to decorate your table lamp shade with your own hands with: buttons, stickers, butterflies, beads, flowers and various braids.
If you want to create an original lampshade from improvised means, then there are a lot of ways. To create such a lampshade, the following are suitable: tin lids, disposable dishes, your favorite pictures from a photo album, paper with drawings, or just a lampshade decorated with your hands.
It is enough to turn on your imagination and you will get an original lamp in the interior of your house or apartment. In the photo below, see a selection of do-it-yourself lampshade options for a table lamp.
Hello to all homemade lovers. I think every house has a light source, be it a lamp, a chandelier or a backlight, which to one degree or another help in everyday life, but such devices can very rarely boast of originality, since the manufacturer usually does not make a unique product, only except for those what to order, but such a pleasure will not come cheap. That is why it was decided to make an original table lamp out of beech with our own hands, and for everyone who worked with wood in the slightest degree, assembling such a homemade product will not seem impossible. First you need to decide on the material and tools that will come in handy in the manufacture of this homemade product.
Before reading the article, I suggest watching a video about this homemade product.
To make a table lamp with your own hands you will need:
* Beech boards
* Wood glue
* Thicknesser
* Manual milling cutter
* Grinding machine
* Sawing machine
* Clamps
* Furniture oil
* Drilling machine
* Dimmer
* Wires with plug
* Electric drill
* Threaded bushing for furniture with M12 thread with a pitch of 1.25
* Super glue
* Hairpin М12, pitch 1.25
* Rubber tie
* Sandpaper
That's all it takes to build such a homemade table lamp.
And now for the fun part, the assembly process.
Step one.
First you need to drive all the beech boards on a thickness gauge, this is done so that their thickness is the same.
We do this from all four sides.
Then we cut a wide board into small boards, about 5 cm wide, of which the head of the lamp will consist.
Step two.
After the boards are ready, they must also be driven out on a thickness gauge, and then cut into small pieces using a sawing machine.
The components must be calculated in advance, the cut angle will depend on their number and the desired size of the lamp itself. For simplicity, we take 8 parts, on each of which it is necessary to make a cut at 45 o on both sides, this is done most easily on a sawing machine.
Step three.
When all 8 blanks are adjusted to the size, they can be glued, wood glue will help us with this. Before gluing, it is necessary to sand the surfaces to be glued in order to improve the contact patch.
We smear the glue over the entire area of the joint of each part and fasten it with a rubber tie, by the way, it can be easily made from a bicycle camera.
Remove excess glue with a rag and leave to dry for a couple of hours, and while the glue dries, we make three more such parts.
Step four.
After all four octagonal blanks have dried, it is necessary to cut at an angle on three of them to create the shape of the lamp. How to do this can be seen more clearly in the photo. You also need to make an octagonal bottom.
Step five.
We glue the four octagons into one piece, after drying we grind on a grinding machine until we get a shape similar to a vase.
When grinding, rotate the workpiece as smoothly as possible, this will determine the correct shape of the lamp.
Step six.
It's time to make a lamp leg, with which you can adjust the direction of the light.
Saw off four small beech boards and round the edges on a grinding machine, for this it is best to draw a circle in advance with a compass.
In the center of this circle we drill a hole, we do this on both sides and on each of the boards.
Then you need to make three small boards, adjacent to both the head of the lamp and the base, which will also be rounded on one side, and to glue them together you will need two small blanks, as in the photo.
We coat the gluing points with glue and press with a clamp.
Step seven.
To adjust the brightness of the light, you need to make a wheel, which will then be put on a dimmer. Similarly to this wheel, we make six more of these, but to fix the position of the lamp.
In the middle, we drill a blind hole and glue the sleeve with M12 thread with a pitch of 1.25 onto superglue and screw it in until it stops.
To fix the position, you will also need three M12 pins with a pitch of 1.25, which will go through the entire lamp fixture.
Step eight.
Now you need to make a shield or the so-called base on which the lamp leg itself will be fixed. Its shape is also round, made with a grinding machine.
Grind the surface with a grinder and glue a circle with a smaller diameter on top of a thin oak plank.
For strong adhesion, we will use clamps, and preferably three at once.
While the glue is drying, you can apply the first coat of oil to the head of the lamp.
Step nine.
The glue is dry, the oak circle is stuck, which means we are going to install the dimmer. We disassemble its body, we need the inner tube itself, drill a hole in the oak mug and mark the dimensions of the board on the reverse side, after which we remove the excess material for planting the dimmer inside with a hand router.
As you know, a hand-made thing can become a worthy decoration for any interior. Moreover, the more such designer and cozy items, the more interesting and colorful the space looks. For each room of your house or apartment, you can create tabletops that will be an excellent decoration. Moreover, for this you can use improvised materials and very often those that are initially difficult to imagine in the role of this functional and necessary device.
Where to begin?
Of course, first you need to think over the design, but we will return to this issue a little later. In the meantime, let's decide how to make a table lamp from what we have at hand. We will use the following elements and devices:
The base for the lamp (this can be a piece of plywood or a DVD);
Frame from an old lampshade;
A pipe (it can be anything);
Various adhesives;
A piece of cable;
Decorations for the base;
Switch, plug, cartridge;
The material from which we will prepare the lampshade;
Spray paint.
Table lamp circuit
A classic table lamp consists of several parts. Firstly, it is a base, a column and. In this capacity, it is quite possible to use a shade made of glass or a lampshade, for example, made of fabric. We have a switch that is located on the power cord or on the base itself, sometimes it is mounted on a plinth. Depending on the purpose of the luminaire, it can have a different design:
- A classic lamp used to illuminate the workplace. The diffuser here is a glass shade or a textile shade.
- The device is clamped to the table. The column of such a lamp is flexible, that is, you can tilt it as you like. The plafond is an opaque bell that focuses light in one direction. An ordinary or LED is used as a light source.
- A dimmer lamp is the ability to adjust the brightness of the light source.
We bring ideas to life
So, we have prepared the details from which the simplest are made with our own hands. Now we take the glue, base and tube and glue them together, for example, using paper or old newspaper. Yes, do not forget to make a hole in the base - the cord will then come out through it. We let the structures dry, after which we begin to decorate our pipe.
For this we use anything: beads, buttons, beads, bows, figures from kinder surprises and much, much more. Thanks to such original and at the same time simple decorations, your lamp will look very unusual, which means that it will be possible to transform the interior. The very last task is to paint the lamp. It is best to choose formulations in which there will be no toxins, as well as those that dry quickly. After the device is dry, you can start making a lampshade.
Lamp from an old vase - fresh ideas
To create with your own hands, it is not at all necessary to look for some design ideas or strive for an effect. You just need to take an old vase and make a lighting fixture based on it. So you will immediately kill two birds with one stone: on the one hand, give new life to an old thing, and on the other, decorate your house with something unusual.
So, we need the following components of the future device: an old vase, an old lamp holder with a holder or a holder, for example, made of cork. A piece of polystyrene, into which the reinforcement is inserted, is quite suitable as a basis. It must be thoroughly poured with epoxy resin, not forgetting to observe safety rules, since this composition emits harmful substances. A structure is created from the prepared materials, which is inserted into an old vase. Now it's just a small matter - to make a lampshade.
Lampshade - the crown of business
Probably, the basis for creating a lamp can be anything. But with the help of a lampshade, you can change the appearance of the lighting device at least every day. In addition, this element is created easily and simply, and again from the materials at hand. Design can be done in a variety of styles, but it is important that do-it-yourself table lamps harmonize with the surrounding space. Which way to create a lampshade to choose?
Firstly, the best option is to make a plafond from the same wallpaper that the room is pasted over. To do this, we take the wallpaper and cut off a strip of it with a width slightly larger than the width of the lampshade. Then you need to carefully glue it to the lampshade, while it is important not to break it or wrinkle it. We give time to dry, after which you can safely put the product on the lamp.
Secondly, the fabric lampshade is popular. It is very simple to make it, and, if you want, you can always remove it and replace it with another variety. Such a lampshade is created according to the same scheme as shown above.
All the best for children
As you already understood, in order to create a table lamp, it is not at all necessary to be a generator of ideas and thoughts. It's enough just to show your imagination. Modern children's table lamps are distinguished by their bright design, but you can slightly change their appearance and make them more interesting. For example, those who know how to handle fabric can make an original patchwork lampshade. In addition, this technique can be implemented in a slightly different way, for example, make the base for the lamp from children's toys - cubes, a puzzle, or decorate the lampshade with toys from kinder surprises.
For a girly version, you can use more romantic designs and decorative elements. For example, a lampshade richly decorated with satin ribbons, bows, beautiful buttons or an interesting appliqué will definitely appeal to cheerful women of fashion.
Original designs
Now let's take a look at how unusual a table lamp can be. With your own hands (the photo confirms this), you can make it very, very catchy, spectacular and memorable. For example, if you have an old globe, then it is quite possible to adapt it to the original shape of the lamp. By the way, you can safely give this one to inveterate travelers - they will definitely appreciate it.
But needlewomen probably have a huge number of balls of threads of various colors. You can knit a beautiful and bright cover and put it on the lampshade. Or you can simply complement the fabric dome with the help of original connected ornaments. Such a lamp will add coziness to the room and create a pleasant atmosphere for your pastime.
Many will laugh, but for the sake of originality, almost anything can be used. Let's say plastic dishes in the form of forks, cups, spoons, and umbrella sticks for cocktails. To create a custom lampshade, we need a balloon, on which we will glue all this plastic and cheap stuff with the help of glue. By the way, if you wish, you can paint it with acrylics - so your lamp will shine with new colors and will look very original!
What is the bottom line?
Thus, there are a lot of ideas for creating a table lamp at home. Choose the method that suits you best in terms of style and design. After all, fresh ideas in the interior is the easiest way to update it. And this method is also beneficial, since you can create original lighting fixtures from what is in your pantry.
Lighting is the most important component of the interior. The comfort and level of comfort of our home depends on the lighting. The play of light and shadow allows you to play up the winning moments of the interior and divert attention from unfortunate moments. And also - lamps, floor lamps, chandeliers and lamps create the atmosphere that we call "home". Unique lamps and the best way is to make a lampshade with your own hands to make your home only "your", personal, individual. Homemade shades and lampshades are the strong point that will make your home stand out from others.
A few words about safety
In the manufacture of lamps, floor lamps and chandeliers in industrial conditions, a preliminary calculation is made of the minimum distance from the "body" of the lamp to the materials. This distance depends on the power and thermal radiation of the lamp and on the type (combustibility) of the material from which the shade / 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 is warming up. Any rise in temperature above ambient is considered heat. If the shade feels warm, change the bulb to a less powerful one. Check again. So until the homemade lampshade is warm.
Where to get the frame
If you want to remake an old lamp, floor lamp, sconces whose old lampshade has become unusable, you can simply use the existing base, peeling off the old material. Before starting work, inspect the frame well, if there is rust or damaged coating somewhere, maybe it is worth peeling and painting everything again? At the same time, the color can be changed. If there are no old frames, you can buy an inexpensive lamp (at a store or at a flea market) and do the same with it. Quite good lampshades can, by the way, be made from waste baskets. They are wire, there are plastic. The main thing is to find the right one in shape and size. Then in the bottom you make a hole for the cartridge. Further - it's up to the decoration / cladding, and then there are a lot of options.
If this method is 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 wire frame for a homemade lampshade
The wire for the lamp frame needs aluminum or steel. It is easy to work with aluminum, but it wrinkles 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 spoil the shape. On the other hand, such plasticity makes it easy and simple to make changes to the shape during operation. So it's not a bad option. Aluminum wire can be obtained from electrical cables. You will have to remove the protective shell and you can use it.
Steel wire is more resilient so that it retains its shape well. You can search for it in the construction market. Working with her is more difficult. It is desirable to have strong male hands nearby.
In addition to the wire, you will need powerful wire cutters and pliers for work. The frame of a lampshade usually consists of two rings and posts connecting them. The shape of the future lampshade depends on the size of the rings and the shape of the racks. Questions may arise about 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. The more racks there are, the smoother the fabric will lie. So it's up to you, but the optimal distance between the posts along the lower circle is about 5-6 cm.
Techniques for creating a frame for a wire lampshade
How you attach the stack to the rings of your lampshade depends on the thickness and type of wire and 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-process the wire at the attachment point with coarse-grained sandpaper. This is an option for thick aluminum wires. If the wire is steel, with a diameter of 1.2-2 mm or more, the best way is. The thinner wire can be bent and wrapped around the ring, or you can also make a hook.
If you make hooks, wrap 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 you still care about it, 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 coated with PVA glue and, wet, tightly, turn by turn, wrap the frame.
Wire mesh
If you can find a thin wire mesh, you can quickly make an almost perfect cylindrical shade for a floor lamp, table lamp, night light, candle shade, etc. All you need is to cut off a piece of mesh of the required length and width, roll it into a ring and fix the wires by wrapping them around the racks.
To prevent the mesh from straightening when cutting a piece, cut so that there are long loose ends on both sides. They will be used to fasten the cylindrical shade. 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 of a lampshade can be obtained from a large-capacity plastic bottle. There are bottles of 5-6 liters and even 10. So they can be used. Cut off the top or bottom from the container - depending on what you like best. In the cut off part, we make a ring for the cartridge. If the top is cut off, the neck can be used for some cartridges. For those with a larger diameter, it will have to be cut.
Then we cut out the excess plastic, form the rims and stands of the plafond. In order not to be mistaken, you can first draw all the lines with a marker. It will be easier to cut. Everything is elementary. Then we just decorate. And yes, it is imperative to cut out the plastic, otherwise the warm air will have nowhere to go.
We make lampshades on the frame
There are enough options for how you can make a lampshade cover:
From ribbons
The easiest and quickest way to convert an old lamp shade to a floor lamp or table lamp is to use ribbons. You need a frame or a lampshade in the form of a cylinder. It can be “naked” or covered in fabric. If you use a "bare" wireframe, light will filter through the slits, which will create interesting lighting effects, but the lighting will be uneven. It is inconvenient to read in this light - this is an interior solution. If you need even lighting, wrap the fabric over the frame first. It can be the same color as the ribbons, a couple of tones darker or lighter, it can be contrasting. It all depends on your desire. And remember that the darker the fabric, the less light the lampshade lets through.
We take a tape with a width of 1-2.5 cm. We fix it from the seamy side of the lampshade using PVA glue, additionally fixing it with a pin. If we took a wire frame without fabric, we attach it to the upper or lower rim (you can sew it 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.
After finishing the circle, unfold the tape 90 °. We fix it in this position (with a needle and thread or PVA glue, glue from a pistol, temporarily fixing it with a pin, pressing it with a clothespin). Then we pass the tape under the first tape, take it out, put it on top of the second one, then pull it down again, pull it up through one tape. So, gradually, we create a weave, filling in the entire lampshade.
Alternatively, you can skip two vertical belts. But then you need to make sure that each next row is shifted by one crossbar. Then you get a different type of weave. Such a lampshade is ideal for floor lamps, as it will direct the light downward, and the dispersion through the walls will be small.
In this version, the ribbons can be the same, they can be of the same color, but of different textures, they can differ by a couple of tones or be contrasting. Around the circle, the tapes can be run solid, or you can - after a certain distance. If you find a wide tape and overlap it, then you won't need horizontal ones at all. And if you use a braided or twisted cord (in the lower photo on the right), we get a completely different kind of lampshade. So only this lampshade finishing technique gives a lot of options.
Let's briefly present the ideas. There are many options for how you can customize standard lampshade frames. The first method has already been announced: you can knit a lamp shade cover on knitting needles or crochet. Several options in the photo.
Not everyone knows how to knit. It's easier to work with beads, especially if you glue them. You can decorate old fabric with beads, sequins, beads of different shapes and sizes. You can make such a "new-old" lampshade with your own hands in a couple of hours. Pick up jewelry that matches the color, coat the fabric with PVA glue, glue the jewelry. To complete the image, you can assemble pendants from beads and beads that are attached to the lower rim, but this is already painstaking work. The effect is interesting though.
You can sew a new fabric lampshade. But it is not necessary to make it an updated copy of the old one. Fantasy should be included! If the lamp or floor lamp is in the girls' room, a new lamp shade cover can be made in the form of a skirt. You choose the style of the skirt yourself. They look interesting in the fold. With and without ruffles.
An old geographic map can be used in the boy's room. They are on thick paper. If the paper is not thick enough, you first need to glue the card onto the cardboard, and then glue the lampshade from such a blank.
Original shades are obtained if the finished frame is braided with threads or ropes. The ropes can be natural. In this case, they are gray, brown beige. Thin synthetic colored cords can be found. From them you will get more "fun" in color products. 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 weave it according to a certain pattern. You can start with the racks. Braid each stand with a pigtail (the length of the threads should be 3 times the height of the stand). When this work is over, we begin to stretch the threads / ropes between the posts. They will need to be passed through the pigtails, so with threads it is more convenient to do this with a needle, and the ropes can be inserted like that.
The second option is to first entangle the entire frame horizontally, and then braid the racks. The pigtail will no longer work here, you just need to fix the turns on the rack with inclined stitches with a certain inclination. This version is somewhat simpler in execution, but the "pigtails" look more decorative.
Homemade shades without a frame
Many materials are tough enough to hold their shape on their own and, at the same time, they are flexible enough to make something interesting out of them. Well, there are a lot of such homemade lampshades. And almost all of them are worth your attention. We will give here only a part, the other part will go in the section with photos (see below).
From knitted lace napkins
Many people have crocheted napkins and they lie in the "zagashniki", as it is a pity to throw it away, and do not know how to use it. There is a very interesting idea - to make of them a lampshade for a chandelier on a suspension. In addition to napkins, you will need a large balloon or bouncy ball, glue for heavy wallpaper (vinyl, silkscreen, etc.), a brush.
Soak the glue according to the instructions, wait until it swells. We inflate the ball or take the 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 spread it on such a condition that a hole for the cartridge remains in the center. Glue the napkins one by one. They should be laid out so that the edges overlap a little. When all the napkins are laid, we coat them with glue again and leave to dry. When the glue is dry, blow off the ball or ball (the ball can be punctured, if not sorry) and take it out through the hole. That's all, the lace lampshade is ready.
In some cases, problems arise 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.You coat this ring with PVA glue , and from the inside of the ball you glue it to the lampshade.
Round shades made of threads
Practically the same technology can be used to make round and semicircular stylish shades. Choose a thread of a suitable color. Their composition is absolutely unimportant - the color, thickness and texture are important. They can be shaggy, smooth, twisted, thinner and thicker. The appearance depends on it. It is most convenient to work with medium-thick cotton threads. They absorb glue well and then, after drying, keep their shape perfectly.
You will also need a ball or a ball. This will be the base of the lampshade that defines the shape. The dimensions of the base are selected at will. The threads will need to be glued, for this you need PVA glue. It is poured into a container, diluted with water in a 1: 1 ratio.
Other glue can also be used. It is important that it becomes transparent after drying. These are WB-29 from TYTAN Professional and D2 glue for carpentry work. If you will be using any of these types of glue, read the instructions.
Draw a circle on the ball or ball, which will be slightly smaller in size than the lamp holder. Draw a larger circle on the opposite side - this will be the lower edge of the plafond. Now everything is ready, we can proceed.
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 slowly pull the thread. With glue in a tube, everything is not so comfortable: you have to coat areas up to a meter long, wind it up, smear it again. Time takes much longer. This is if you use non-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 on a 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 thread the edge of the thread between the others. Everything. Then we coat the ball with wound threads again with glue (PVA can be poured) and leave it to dry (at least 2 days). To prevent the ball from rolling, we find a bowl or saucepan and use it as a stand.
The last step is to blow off the ball or ball. If the ball has a nipple, press on it with a thin wire, releasing air. We take out the deflated ball. That's all, you can thread the lamp inside and test the lampshade.
The technology is the same, but the look is very different ...
Using the technology described above, you can make not only round shades. Rectangular, triangular, trapezoidal. Choose a base that is easy to remove, wind the threads dipped in glue, braid, even sticks, newspaper tubes, etc. After drying, remove the base and now, you have made a lampshade with your own hands. A couple of examples in the photo below.
You can also use sticks…. Only wrap the ball with cling film and use transparent carpentry instead of PVA glue.
It is a pasty polymer clay in a tube, which was applied to a milk bag, then dried and the bag was removed ...
Creative homemade shades for lamps, floor lamps and chandeliers
You just wonder why people don't make beautiful and unusual things. A plafond made of a cup, grater, bottle, beer or glass can, metal parts and rings from beer cans ... It seems that everything can be used ...
Old sieve shade ... stylish
Candlesticks turn into lamps ... without lampshades
You won't tell in real life, but these lampshades are made of hooks used to open metal cans for drinks and canned food ... if you paint them, it will be even more interesting
Not sure what to do with granny's crystal? Make plafonds out of it ...
If you want an ordinary metropolitan apartment to resemble a place of outwardly unique beauty, then in order to achieve this, you can use one of the most popular methods today.
Some invite designers home, and someone just takes the initiative in their own hands and is looking 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 improvised material, as well as certain knowledge in the assembly and subsequent installation of electrical appliances.
If you have never encountered the latter before, then you should not get upset right away, since absolutely all the rules can be found in the public domain on the Internet and there is nothing complicated about them.
Basic principles of correct lighting in a room
The use of absolutely any lighting device, first of all, should meet the main principle - to ensure accurate access of light in a predetermined space.
Where and how the light source will be located will in the future necessarily have an impact on the overall picture of the perception of the interior of the room.
Moreover, 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 necessary, for example, exclusively for personal needs.
Thanks to the installation of a table lamp, it is quite easy to achieve high-quality lighting access in a specific place.
What colors 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 revive the general appearance of the room a little, you can, for example, make the table lamp look bright green.
Another interesting way to add originality to a room is to paint the simplest plafond with interesting lines and even geometric patterns.
Most designers advise using this option if the room was originally made in warm enough colors. It is worth noting that this option is not advised to be used in children's rooms, since lighting in any tone will be more familiar to them.
Speaking of exclusively neutral color solutions, they especially highlight the various monochrome shades, as well as the aquamarine, gold, shades of pink that are popular this season. Any of these colors can cheer you up in just a few minutes.
Procedure for creating a lamp
Despite the fact that many are sure that it is extremely difficult to make a lamp with their own hands, in fact, only a few simple elements are needed for work, which can be purchased in almost any store and, in general, the creation of a lamp does not differ in difficult moments in work.
The first thing to do is be sure to make a detailed plan for yourself. This is necessary in order to have a clear idea of how much material will be spent in the future for the installation of an electrician.
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 have an impact on how much money you have to spend.
It is also important to take special care that the assembly and subsequent installation process is completely safe.
If you assume that the work in any case will necessarily relate to direct contact with various chemicals, then it is worth preparing an apron, gloves with glasses, and a forced draft.
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Security measures are definitely not something to 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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