Chandeliers and lamps with their own hands

To create a lighting device, they use almost everything that can be found on hand: wooden sticks, baseboard pieces, containers, wood cuts, metal sticks and pipes, glass products, fabrics. Homemade lamps make futuristic, classic, glamorous, minimalist. For each type, several step-by-step master classes have been devised. Design rooms are usually decorated with unusual lamps. These can be products with cuts, many individual fragments, in the form of a large ball or cube. The same lamps are made with their own hands, from any material. Not only craftsmen selling their products, but also ordinary owners of apartments and houses do this. Homemade chandeliers can be similar to the store or be performed in an unusual way: from graters, cans, etc. The shape depends on the characteristics of the material and the artist's imagination.

What can be used as materials

It will take:

  • fat cream;
  • PVA glue;
  • cotton buckle;
  • dye;
  • Balloon.

There are several interesting options. From ordinary thread you get a beautiful glowing ball. First you need to inflate the ball and lubricate it with cream. It is placed in a container with water and diluted in the PVA. Then he is wrapped with thread. The design is left to dry for 24 hours - it will be necessary only to plant the product on the cover. The second way is to use tubes. The sheets are twisted diagonally, the protruding tips are glued. Two hundred tubes will be needed: they are glued together in a round or triangular shape. The next option is a wire shade: it is twisted into a spiral or conical shape. It is also possible to create a lamp from plastic bottles: their bottom and neck are cut off. You will need a wire, acrylic paint, sealant and marker. There are many other methods to create a lamp with their own hands.

Variants of creating lamps from wood

Making a lamp with your own hands is primarily an art, not a saving. Although wood is a simple and inexpensive material, its products can compete with others in terms of quality of performance and aesthetics. The process of their manufacture will not be the easiest. You will need to carry out complex calculations, work with a large number of tools, clean up a lot of garbage. Lighting devices are made from saw cuts, branches, veneer, wooden slats, wooden boxes and frames, wheels, logs, beams, etc. The wooden lamp is the ideal solution for an antique-style interior. It can be made from a piece of the trunk or from processed materials, for example, in the form of a complex geometric structure made of sticks, a ring, a cylinder or a square, created from four or eight bars.

Master class: how to make a lamp out of wood cuts

You will need a tree trunk, a grinder, a handsaw, a LED strip (2 m), brushes, a varnish for wood, glue, a matte plastic tube. First, the trunk is cut into slices of the same thickness - about 2 cm. Then a template is made in the center of one of the cuts. He and all other cuts are drilled on the markup. Measurements should be carried out carefully, because of poorly marked fragments, the whole process will have to be restarted. After that, they must be polished. The next stage - strengthening with glue and laying on gaskets for drying. After this, the log houses are varnished. In parallel, you can prepare a frosted tube - a rod for construction. Its surface is treated to the maximum effect of dullness. The cuts are put on the tube and after that one more step will be left. The last thing mounted tape. It must be folded in the hands and placed in a tube in this form.

    
    
    
    

Geometric lamp from wooden slats

The list of necessary materials and tools includes: screws, drill, chipboard, brush, acrylic lacquer, electrical block, 4 chuck and 7 two-meter rails. From the chipboard, you need to cut the blanks, and paste their edges with edges. Reiki assemble in a single design in the form of a cross with a diamond shape in the center. A base is cut from a 5 mm plywood sheet. In places where the slats create intersections, pieces of bamboo sticks or shkanty are installed. At the base it is necessary to drill 8 holes: 4 is intended for the ceiling, and the same for the main part of the lamp. From the tin you need to bend 4 corners with beveled edges. They are mounted with screws so that the open parts of the corners are directed inside the lampshade. The entire wooden frame is varnished twice, with a break for drying. At the end, the cruciform design is screwed to confirmatories.

    
    
    
    

Veneer lamp

It can be made of twelve strips. For the inside they are taken smaller - 60 cm, for the outside - 70 cm. The strips are made of sheet: they are cut along the fibers with a steel ruler and a knife. On a large paper sheet, you must draw a circle with a diameter of 350 mm. It is divided into sectors of 30 °. On the left and right sides of the lines separating the sectors, along the perimeter of the circle, parallel lines are drawn to determine the desired position of the veneer strips. Then prepare a disk with a small hole to lay the strip. They are glued clockwise in the form of a snowflake, first three short, then three long. After the glue dries in the construction of the strips, it will be necessary to make a hole about 1 cm wide. A wire is pushed through it, and a sleeve is attached to the disk. The hanging ends of the strips are fixed with a flange and bolts.

Lamps from textiles and threads

To create a lamp shade, you can use old clothes: jeans, knee-highs, damaged dresses, etc. The products are decorated with bows, pockets, threads with beads. In almost all cases, the fabric must be worn on some kind of frame. It can also be made with your own hands. It is better to choose metal as the material, sometimes wood. The basis for a homemade fabric chandelier can be factory lamps, both new and old. The fabric of the usual old lampshade can be removed, and instead it can be fastened modern, with stylish drawings. To create and design homemade chandeliers using threads of different thickness. They are wrapped with various jars and frames, connect parts of the lamp and hang the design. Interestingly look shades of hardened thread. In addition to them, twine or rope is also used. They are successfully combined with different fabrics and paper.

Master class: ball-shaped lamp of thread

To create this product you will need:

  1. Base from table lamp.
  2. Glue.
  3. Thick threads (up to 4 balls).
  4. Air balloons.

    

First, balloons inflate. Better a few, because they can burst. Their shape should be perfectly round. On each of them a ten-centimeter circle is drawn with a felt-tip pen. A hole with a light bulb will be inserted through a hole of this size. The ball is placed on the oilcloth. Preparing an adhesive solution. You need to wear rubber gloves on your hands to dip threads into it. When they are saturated with a solution, they get it; then clots of glue are removed. The end of the thread is tied to the inflatable ball knot. After that, it is wrapped around the entire ball, it should be done uniformly over the entire surface, but randomly. It is advisable to use several threads of different colors. Then the ball is suspended until the structure is dry. Then they burst it, and the knot is cut off. The ball is removed through a large hole, into which then you will need to insert a cartridge with a light bulb.

DIY fabric lampshade

You will need thick paper, glue, cloth, thread the color of the fabric, pins, ruler, pencil, iron. You will need to make a template to calculate the desired amount of fabric. If the frame for the lampshade should have a cylindrical shape, then measure the circumference and height and alternately draw the corresponding lines, creating a right angle. Opposite sides of the rectangle are completed. From the paper cut out the desired shape. It is applied to the fabric. From it you need to get a larger rectangle. It is cut after the desired fragment is selected. Then the matter is fixed on the template with the help of pins (its edges need to be bent). After that, you need to use a sewing machine. The treated fabric is ironed. After that, it is glued to the base. Untreated sections are hidden. The seam is made so that the base is closed stitched edge.

    
    
    
    
    

Plastic chandeliers and lamps

Plastic has become one of the most sought after materials in modern interiors. This also applies to fixtures - a variety of models are sold. You can make a chandelier with your own hands, which will not yield to anything in finished products. The lampshade is constructed from anything. It can be disposable cups, various sticks, painted plastic bottles. They are sometimes decorated with decorative devices: figures, luminous details. As an auxiliary material can be used various metal frames. The easiest way to make a desk lamp. You can use the cut parts and forms with holes. Instead of throwing out unnecessary plastic items (used disposable dishes, etc.), it is better to try to make them a small lamp that can decorate the room.

Master class: we make the cover of plastic spoons

We need to find a large number of identical plastic spoons, up to 200 pieces. It will be more difficult to design a product from whole devices, but if they are cut off, everything will turn out quite quickly and simply. Handles spoons need to be cut and removed, leaving only scooped. Then you can use a ready-made lampshade for pasting elements or cut it out of the hob. From it make the lower part and make a hole for the bulb or cut off the top of the neck, leaving a fairly wide opening. Next you need to decide on the picture. The upper surfaces of the cups will create a shell-like pattern, and the lower ones will create a “scaly” surface. If you choose the second option, then jumper should be glued to the eggplate. First trim the upper part, laying out one after another rows of spoons. When the process reaches the open part, then you need to calculate everything so that the last row hides the cut edge of the bottle.

As an attachment you can apply:

  • glue;
  • office plasticine;
  • Scotch.

    

Plastic leaf bottle chandelier

You will need a steel wire for the frame, thin wire, a soldering iron, scissors, ten plastic bottles of various shades of green. From the bottles you need to cut the leaves of different sizes and shapes. Ideal fragments in the form of birch leaves and other leaves with a more or less compact form. Thus, a greater number of elements will be obtained. The cuts imitating plates should be treated with a soldering iron to make them slightly bent. The veins should also be made at the edge of the sting: the leaves will have a more natural look. Since the bottles are cylindrical in shape, the blanks will be curved. Hot needle pierced the holes for thin wires. You need at least two on each leaflet, but even better four to pass the wire through the figure-eight. Each one is worn as many sheets as possible. Then the flexible wires are securely twisted behind the frame of steel wires.

Handle with a soldering iron should be as careful as possible so as not to burn your fingers and do not burn the leaves.

Lamps from laser discs

You can make several types of such lamps. Materials that will be required: rubber feet, silicone sticks, a fluorescent lamp, a circle of hardboard, CD-disks. Required tools such as a ruler, a triangle, a pencil, compasses, glue gun, screwdriver, pliers, pliers, drill. In the round form of fiberboard, a hole is made in the very center, twelve sectors are drawn on it. On the lines that separate them, one small hole is drilled. Through them steel wires will be stretched, on each of which a stack of disks will be placed. The design will be quite heavy, so we need exactly the metal wires. A wire with a chuck is inserted into a hole in a circle of fiberboard, a light bulb is inserted into it. You can also make a polyhedron lamp, a bowl in the form of a ball, petals, or a ring lamp.

Ways to create lamps from paper

This material is popular because of its flexibility. You can construct an interesting figure or fold the sheets of paper several times and make flowers. Folded paper sheets are combined into rounded shapes. Paper lamps are made in the form of plants, animals, abstractions. Some like to make patterns and cutouts. In some countries of the East, rice paper chandeliers are widely used. For the manufacture of the lamp, you can use the technique of origami. Paper lamps are created in two main ways, namely using one or several large sheets or gluing a large number of paper elements. Over the past ten years, table and floor lamps have become popular. Paper can make light bulbs, rugged pumpkins and houses. This material is also suitable for creating a traditional lampshade:

  • conical;
  • cylindrical;
  • elliptical.

From rice or parchment paper

Rice paper is useful for creating a Chinese lantern. Additionally, you will need a thread, an awl, a stationery knife, a ruler and a pencil. First you need to make markup on paper. The flashlight circuit consists of a set of rhomboid sectors. Half of them are filled with intermittent vertical markings. After that, the piece is folded in an accordion. It collapses into a circle. Painted covers can be glued to the top and bottom. To make a cover of parchment paper, you will need a marking board, a circular knife, two sheets of parchment paper, two rolls of waxed paper (similar to parchment paper), scissors, silk ribbon, and a hanging frame. Satin ribbon strips 18-20 cm long and 40 cm long are attached to the frame structure. The final stage consists in pasting circles of parchment and wax paper on ribbons. Attach them to overlap.

Paper bag origami chandelier

To make such a lamp with your own hands, you need a wire with a switch, an LED lamp, two paper bags with a pattern. First you need to learn how to make simple origami. The next thing packages cut off the bottom, handles are removed. They stick together in one big paper bag. His fold in half. Both parts "turn" into accordions. Need 16 identical lanes. Extreme of them are folded diagonally. An awl is pierced with a hole. One of the two open sides is securely fixed with a thick thread. It is necessary to leave the possibility of regulation. The second will be open. The LED light is connected to the cartridge, the top of the lampshade opens and closes back. It is necessary such lighting, it is impossible to use incandescent bulbs. The wire is fixed on a branch of a high ornamental tree - the product is ready.

Corrugated paper shade

Products made of corrugated paper look very original, so the material has become so popular. You will need an LED lamp, cable, thread, glue, knitting needle, ruler, a piece of corrugated paper 44 × 88 cm. The first step is to take a ruler and pen and mark the paper on the line with the same width. Focusing on the drawn lines, you need to make an accordion from a flat sheet. With the help of the spokes, it folds diagonally from one end, then returns to its original position and folds up from the other side. The paper needs to be unfolded once more - diamonds should stand out on it. The entire sheet now consists of double forms. The first and subsequent bends must be made appropriate for the width of the strips, otherwise the appearance of the paper will deteriorate. The workpiece is twisted into a spherical shape, and its upper part is held together by a thread.

Butterfly chandelier

There are two ways to create such a lamp:

  1. One big butterfly.
  2. "Swarm" of small moths of different sizes.

Children of preschool age will like the lampshade in the form of many hanging figurines more. Some parts of the lamp can go down to one and a half meters from the ceiling. An old lampshade or its frame is taken as the base. If there are no such blanks, you can use a rim of metal or wood or thick wire twisted in a circle. It is necessary to prepare sheets with patterns of butterflies in order to choose butterflies of the required sizes and shapes. It is recommended to make moths of at least five different sizes. Then the design will be more visually. Butterflies are cut with small scissors or a stationery knife. It is desirable that the paper was thick. Carved figures are painted with different colors, decorated with sparkles, but on some patterns butterflies can already be colored. To bring the product to readiness, butterflies are fixed on the line and fastened to the base.

Scissors for cutting patterns must be straight, otherwise the butterflies will be damaged.

Spherical paper lamps

As decoration elements you can use:

  • fragments of old paper;
  • cloth or paper napkins;
  • dense matter, felt.

Готовый китайский светильник можно использовать как основу для других изделий. Стоят они дешево. Понадобится идеально круглая модель. Первый вариант: вырезать из ткани круги разного цвета и приклеивать внахлест. Из китайского шара можно сделать что-то наподобие круглой пластинчатой шишки. The second way: circles are cut out of sheets of square paper. They are connected in the center, the edges are raised, until you get the perfect flower. The elements are mounted on the ball in ordered rows. Paper sheets make beautiful tartlets. They should be filled with something. The paper is also folded into square envelopes, which can be turned into four conical molds. Some use an old wall map instead of paper. A newspaper lampshade with printed images of gray or brown will look stylish in any interior.

Lamps made of metal pipes and tubes in the loft style

Non-functioning water pipes with faucets can be mounted in a single design, equipped with light bulbs and thus create a stylish and useful thing. It is better to place it on the wall. This is a very popular loft style decoration. From large and small pipes are lamps in the style of steampunk. These are complex structures, without special training, they will not work. However, it is possible to design a small robot with a “head” in the form of a light bulb. Beautiful ceiling chandeliers are made of pipes. In addition, there are various models of lamps from metal pipes. Brass is often used as a material. Chandeliers are created in the form of compositions from several tubes. Pipes, as a rule, make one-piece, but produce lamps with different patterns and openings. They are not inferior in popularity to the lamps in the loft style.

Brass chandelier

You can make a beautiful product in the form of diamond faces. In addition to the pipes themselves, sandpaper, jigsaw, twine or wire gloves are required. To create an original chandelier, you will need 20 pipes: 10 short (6 cm), 5 medium (12 cm) and the same long (25 cm). We need to find a few long blanks, mark them up and cut them with a jigsaw. After that, you need to do sanding with sandpaper so that the edges of the tubes are perfectly smooth. Further fragments are collected on a thick wire or string. First, horizontal rows are created: the bottom of the five short and the middle of the same number of medium tubes. Then they are connected by five more short tubes. The upper part of the structure is made of five long fragments that need to be combined with the already prepared part. Long pipes are not reduced completely, in this place you need to fix the cartridge.

Fixtures from plumbing pipes

You need to prepare such devices as electrical cable, electrical tape, tape, various screwdrivers, two-core wire, cartridges, hinges, fittings that match the parameters of the pipes. One of the tubes should be bigger - it will serve as anchorage to the ceiling. The build process is quite complicated. It is necessary to create a scheme on paper, and then get to work. At this stage are determined with the configuration of the structure. Splitters need to be properly combined. All parts of the upcoming design can be polished and painted. Preference is better to give white, red, gold and black colors. You need to wait about a day for everything to completely dry. After that, all the pipes are put together. On them light bulbs twist. The last stage is the connection. Since the scheme is complicated, it is better to invite a specialist.

Using glass to create fixtures

On the ceiling you can hang a composition of several empty bottles of alcoholic beverages. Three-liter jars can be hung by metal chains. Glassware is also suitable as a ceiling. A luminaire made from a variety of glass fragments can imitate a crystal chandelier. Broken glass objects find a new destination in the form of the original lighting device. Beautiful table lamps are created from glasses and wine glasses. Various glass boxes, glass from old wall sconces, headlights, interior doors can be useful. Home-made glass chandelier can be painted with watercolor or stained glass paints. Get beautiful stained glass windows. To create pendant lamps, masters use a variety of decorative containers from under oils and perfumes. Unlike wood and paper, glass has a high fire safety.

Wine Bottles and Wood Lighting

The list of necessary devices includes nippers, screwdrivers, screws, glass cutter, silicone, cloth or brush, wood stain, pine boards, hooks, chain, ten light bulbs, wiring, wine bottles. First of all, containers are processed. Labels and glue residue are removed from the bottles. With the help of a glass cutter you need to remove the bottom of each bottle: it rests at a height of 1-2 cm, and the bottle rotates around its axis. Cracks need to be tapped with a hammer until the bottom disappears. After that, the electrical wires are placed in bottles and connected to the cartridges. Light bulbs are screwed into them. Now you need to cook boards. In the bottom, more, holes are drilled for necks and wires. The top will collect them in one bundle. Hooks for the chains that will hold the structure are screwed into the bottom board. For the kitchen, you can make a table lamp with the base of the bottle and a canopy of wood.

Wooden boards can be covered with wood stain to give the effect of "old".

Using old cans to create fixtures

Old jars can find a new destination. Lamps can be created with the help of threads, wires, can handles. Tanks must be equipped with handles. They will need to be tied with threads fastened to a pre-prepared iron frame. Electricity wires with bullets and bulbs are lowered into the cans - the chandelier is ready You can make an option for giving - the threads are tied around tree branches, and candles or small lanterns are placed inside the cans. The containers wrapped with multi-colored threads or decorated with patterned napkins look beautiful. The inner part of the cans can be painted white, and while it is still dry, apply a drawing in the form of chaotic lines. Some paint the container from the outside with different colors and paint the image from above using glitter shadows. Banks can also be pasted over with a small cullet.

Chebbi-chic chandelier / lamp

Beautiful decorative things are made of beads and fabric, including lamps, characteristic of this style. Chebbi-chic decoration provides that the room is designed for a girl or a woman. Beads, beads, threads, chains, a lampholder, a finished wooden or metal frame will be needed. The first thing you need to paint the base in some of the soft shades. After that, it can be wrapped with decorative elements or a cloth. The top of the plafond is wrapped with smaller beads, but in larger quantities — one thread should be strung up to 40 beads, with about 20 on the lower yarns. The lamp is usually covered with a pink cloth. All jewelry is hung so that they flowed down.

Conclusion

The chandelier is the only important element in the upper part of the room; it can create symmetry and other geometric accents. To hang in his room a beautiful, stylish, designer lamp, do not necessarily buy it in the store. Each house has enough items and tools to do everything on its own. In most cases, blanks, scissors, paper, glue, threads, frame, varnish and paints are enough. Sometimes you may need the help of an electrician. Most handmade lamps are made of wood, plastic, paper, glass, textiles or metals. There are more exotic options with the use of different designs, small parts, molds. A homemade chandelier should not only perform an aesthetic function, but also high-quality light the room. It should be designed wisely.

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