House, design, repair, decor. Yard and garden. Do it yourself

House, design, repair, decor. Yard and garden. Do it yourself

How to make lamps do it yourself

House decoration on their own favorite occupation of many hostesses, this article reveals how to make a lamp with their own hands. You can revitalize the interior of the living room, bedroom or hallway with the help of a primary means, only by changing the chandelier chandeliers, flooring or desktop lamp. Plafones for lamps made by their own hands can be used not only in a residential interior, but also in the halls of the cafe, pubs, pizzerias.

Choosing materials and lamps for lamp

Products made for children's rooms must be made of natural non-toxic materials and painted with environmental colors.

In the manufacture, it should also be remembered for fire safety, so the flames from combustible materials made of paper, plastic, feathers or threads should be used only with lamps that have a small heating temperature.

You need to use LED or fluorescent lamps. They have a number of advantages:

  • large service life;
  • minimal heating base with glass part;
  • the light has three shades: warm, cold, neutral.

In addition, such lamps are also called energy-saving, their only disadvantage can be called high cost.

It is also desirable that the wire connection to the baseman produced a specialist. No need to try to independently perform this operation, as this may lead to undesirable consequences. It is more convenient to decorate the already existing frame frame or make it from durable and not very heavy materials.

The following materials are used to create lamps: scissors, mounting knife, fishing line, wire, pliers, hot gun, in some cases can be replaced with super-glue. They should be used by an adult, a child to attract to gluing is unacceptable. Since in one case it will get a burn, and in the other you can glue my fingers or stick to the details of the future product.

What can make a ceiling?

Many craftsmen make lamps from very unnecessary materials:

  • from plastic or glass bottles;
  • newspapers, fine or colored paper;
  • artificial or natural threads;
  • dried branches of an unusual form;
  • disposable spoons;
  • old disks.

Plastic lamp

From plastic containers of different volumes, a homemade chandelier is easily obtained.

  1. For the base, you need to take a bottle of 5 liters. The bottom is cut off from it. Then the surfaces are drawn with a diameter of 1.5 cm. They need to be cut by mounting knife or small scissors.
  2. From bottles for the decor, the bottom is cut off and the entire surface is cut by scissors on the strip of 0.5 - 1 cm wide, then the billet is heated above the burning burner. Under the influence of heat, the band will acquire a chaotic look.
  3. Then in 5 liter containers with holes insert blanks, and the covers are screwed from the inside. Then through a large neck, the wire is taking place and a plane is installed. For such a ceiling, you need to use an energy-saving lamp.
  4. In some interiors, you can find a fancy lamp made on the basis of the usual hanger or straw hats. In general, to limit the scope of fantasy both homemade masters and professional designers can nothing.

Glass bottles

A very interesting option of a homemade chandelier is obtained from glass bottles. They are used to decorate the halls of food enterprises. It is also a good option for the kitchen in a residential building or apartment. It may be a plafof consisting of one or more bottles, which are cut down the bottom. You can do this on your own, but it is better to use the services of the workshop where the glass and mirrors are cut.

How to use threads

For lampshar of thread or ribbon, you will need: ready-made frame of durable wire, threads of different colors, scissors, glue.

  1. The frame consists of two rings, interconnected with metal segments. It can be done independently from a durable wire.
  2. One color is needed or a few shades of the thread.
  3. Thread is fixed on the bottom, then it needs to be stretched through the top ring, lower down and move through the bottom ring. It is necessary to ensure that the thread is stretched and the coils firmly fit to each other. As soon as the thread ends, you need to attach the following segment to the bottom ring.
  4. Carefully trim the remnants of threads and glue them from the back.

Spoons for lamp

You can make a multi-tiered, color lamp from ordinary disposable spoons.

  1. It is necessary to make a wire frame, for a round small lamp you need to make three circles with a diameter: 12, 18, 26 cm. Then the circles are fastened with each other with a fishing line. The above will be the largest diameter, there must be the same distance between them.
  2. In spoons you need to make a small hole with a thick needle at the top of the handle.
  3. Spoons are painted with acrylic paints in three colors, for example, yellow, orange, red.
  4. Build homemade chandelier: the fishing line is cut in length equal to the distance between the circles. To one end, the fishing line ties a spoon, and the other to the frame. To the lower circle of the small diameter you need to tie a spoon of yellow, to the middle - orange and to the top - red shade.

Easy and elegant plander

Paper or thin cardboard is suitable for the paper. Such a ceiling can be both rectangular and square shape. You must first consider the size of the ceiling, the larger the room, the wider there can be a design. In a small orphan or hallway, there will be a good ceiling with a diameter of 30 - 35 centimeters.

The frame can be made of wire, it will consist of the upper and lower part, consider the manufacture of a cylinder formation.

  1. You need to make two circles from the wire of the desired diameter. They are connected to each other with the help of a fishing line, the distance between the lower and the upper frame - 12 - 15 cm, the fishing hoops are bonded in three, four places. The greater the diameter of the base, the more it is necessary to make connective elements.
  2. On paper blank, you can draw circles of different diameters, figurines of cartoon characters. The contour drawings can be taken from the Internet and print them, then redraw using a copy. For drawing circles, a special ruler is suitable or you can draw lids or buttons of different diameters. Some drawings are cut by a fully stationery knife, some cut through the contour.
  3. Paper is based on the basis and glue a mustache. Then glued to the wire, you can also fix with a thin wire. To do this, first in paper make a hole with a thick needle or selent, then they make the wire and gently tie to the frame. It is desirable to glue thin paper, as it is easy to spoil.

Exclusive metal pelvic plander

  1. Tases from any metal are used, an interesting option will be made of copper or aluminum tanks. The old pelvis is suitable. If it has a through hole, it needs to be boiled or stuck, for example, epoxy resin.
  2. The inner surface must be painted in a light color so that the light is maximally reflected from it.
  3. The outer surface can be painted in a dark, rich color, harmonizing with the interior.
  4. On the bottom of the rim glued with hot glue with a fringe of about 5 centimeters. In the central part of the basin, it is necessary to make a hole for the wire. It can be drilled drill or punch with a nail.

Such a ceiling can be decorated with mosaic from CDs. For this discs are cut by sharp scissors into small fragments, which are pasted on the outer surface of the pelvis. You can enclose only the bottom contour, and the rest to paint. Or decorate with such a mosaic all the surface of the ceiling. The more convex surface, the smallest should be disk fragments.

Natural materials

The original lamp can be made of a dry branch of an unusual form. It needs to be cleaned of the bark and coat with a verse, then, if desired, handle with a transparent varnish. The branch must be attached to the hook on the ceiling with a conventional fishing line. Then the wire with a lamp is screwed several times on the branch. It looks beautiful, the branch, accusing several wires.

You can make a lamp of plastic hangers. In detail told on the video:

Lamps in different rooms

The chandeliers of bottles made more suitable for the kitchen made. Designs made of glass or plastic will be easy to clean from dust and, if necessary, washed. For a kitchen, an entrance hall or a living room is suitable for a lamp of a natural tree.

For the children's room, the ceiling of painted plastic bottles is suitable, butcher from bright threads or paper composition. The last option can not be called durable, but it is precisely such an option to children. Girls will like a plate with butterflies, vegetable elements, boys fit construction with machinery, superhero or bright plastic plastic plastic.

In some cafes, the pubs are used for the decor of the hall the original lamps of bottles. It can be beer bottles. They can serve as a light bulb, and to be an interesting framed for the lamp.

Ideas of homemade lamps at the placement

With your own hands you can give a new look by outdoor Torsh. You can decaffeve with a cloth, threads, paper with slit patterns, it is also not necessary to leave the base and leg of the lamp. They can be painted with acrylic paints, put the glaze, decorate beads. The decor of the lower part of the flooring should elaborate with the elements at the top. The easiest option is to decorate a plane of monophonic color with lace or guipure.

Decorating lamps

The lower part of the bertow can be decorated with pompons of the same size hanging on a thread. They are glued with the inside of the frame of the glue. Pumps can hang both on the same and at different heights. They can be made of one color or combine a few shades.

To decorate paper luminaires, you can use lace, dense fatin, beads of different sizes. Glass cans or bottles can be decorate glass pebbles that can be purchased in accessories stores. You can also use buttons of different sizes and colors. Small buttons can be glued even on PVA.

On New Year's holidays, it is customary to decorate the Christmas tree, but plaffers of lamps, lamps can be decorated. Here you can use the usual rain, cut off with your hands with snowflakes, figurines of the Christmas tree, decorative balls and the usual garland. If an energy-saving lamp is installed in a wall-mounted or floor lamp, then its ceiling can be decorated with paper snowflakes.

Wall sheds are installed in living rooms, bedrooms, children's. After repair, you can use old sconce, only changing their appearance. You can paint the luminaire case into a light color, and from above apply a bronze or silver paint brush to create a patina effect. If the glass is a glass, the liked pattern is applied to its surface using a glass stencil. Here you can use contour (they are used to create stained glass) or aerosol paints.