Unique lamps, chandeliers, lampshades with their own hands. DIY chandelier - instructions for making and a master class on creating designer models How to make a round chandelier with your own hands

A DIY table lamp is one of the most affordable ways to decorate an interior and give it a personality. As soon as the designers of pros and amateurs do not scoff at them! The reason is simple: in relation to the functionality and possibilities of creative self-expression to the required costs of materials, labor and skill, the table lamp is firmly in the top of the leaders among household items. In this article, we will see what you can do with it without straining either your hands or your wallet. Just an invention.

What to do?

Rack-mounted table lamps (pos. 1 in the next figure) illuminate the work area that does not require the quick movement of the light spot on the table surface: a dressing table, a desk. The possibilities of decorative design in this case are the greatest. Technically, the design of a table lamp on a stand is the simplest. Opportunities for operational adjustment of the size of the illuminated area are practically absent. Adjusting the illumination of the working area is possible if there is a thyristor voltage regulator in the lamp, but the spectrum of the emitted light changes significantly.

The great advantage of rack-mounted table lamps is the possibility of obtaining the so-called. cosecant-square radiation pattern (RP) of the illuminator, see also at the end. The cosecant-square DN provides, within a certain angle φ, an almost uniform illumination of the working area (see the figure on the right), which drastically reduces fatigue from intense intellectual work.

Lamps on a breakable swivel arm (pos. 2) are more suitable for technical creativity. Lamps on a pantograph bracket at home are impractical and technologically complex, and making a lamp on a flexible bracket at home will cost more than buying a ready-made one.

The design of a table lamp on a breaking arm is limited to laconic and utilitarian forms. The design is more complicated than that of a lamp on a stand, primarily due to the requirement to ensure electrical safety, see below. Opportunities for operational adjustment of light in the working area are wide both in terms of the size of the illuminated area and in terms of its illumination with a constant spectrum.

Console table lamps (pos. 3) are less common in everyday life, because. for stability, they require a heavy base and, most often, a counterweight, which complicates and increases the cost of the design. Cantilever lamps have fewer opportunities for quick adjustment of light in the working area than lamps on brackets, however, it is possible to obtain a cosecant-square DN.

Table lamps without an elevation of the light source above the supporting surface are no longer table lamps, but nightlights (pos. 4). The fundamental difference between the two is that the night light does not have a working area with certain requirements for light. Accordingly, the light from the night lamp can be anything, as long as it does not harm health.

Design

In a table lamp of any type, a trace can be distinguished. design elements:

• Electromechanical - ensures the stability of the lamp and a safe supply of power to the lamp holder.
• Reference - supports the illuminator or reflector and, possibly, allows you to change its position.
• Illuminator - an electric light bulb in a lampshade or reflector.

Electromechanics in the design of a table lamp plays a role only insofar as it can be hidden in the support of the illuminator. Design delights fall on the support and the illuminator. In rack lamps, as a rule, the lampshade carries the main aesthetic load, and the rack complements it; in articulated - on the contrary. But there are plenty of exceptions to this rule.

Electromechanics

The wiring diagram of a table lamp is simple: a mains plug, a cable, a switch, a light bulb holder. Sometimes a voltage regulator is added. The pendant lamp holder E27 (under the lamp base of a regular width, item 1 in the figure) can only be mounted on a threaded shank M10 or M12. The cartridge for the narrow E14 minion base is also mounted on a thread or on a lamella in the form of a steel strip; the nest under it is shown by a green arrow in pos. 2. For a table lamp, chandelier cartridges (pos. 3) with captive threaded flanges are best suited: between them you can clamp a steel faceplate with a lampshade frame or a clamp for hinge mounting. Drawings of the E27 chandelier electric cartridge of various modifications are given in pos. 4.

It is necessary to make a table lamp in such a way as to ensure its electrical safety. This is especially true for lamps on hinges and consoles. Achieving the safety of a table lamp is quite simple:

1. The cable must be taken round in double insulation.
2. The conductors of the cable are flexible, made of many wires. The cross section lived from 0.35 sq. mm.
3. Places where the cable passes through conductive or damp parts of the structure must be protected by sufficiently strong flexible dielectric bushings, cuffs or elbows.
4. The cable inside the lamp structure must not be taut.

The diagram of the mechanical part of the support with a load of a homemade rack table lamp is shown in the figure:

The cable from the inside before entering (highlighted in color) is tied in a knot or pulled through the holes of the dielectric fixing washer so that by pulling it from the outside, the cable cannot be torn inside. A decorative finish made of polymer clay (plastic, cold porcelain) on a dummy from a cut plastic bottle is the best option at home, but, of course, only one of many. If you want, for example, to carve a decorative shell of a wooden rack - please, if only the mechanics of the village fit properly. However, polymer clay as a material for a table lamp stand allows you to implement the most original ideas for its decor and fully meets the safety requirements: dried polymer clay is a mechanically strong non-wetting non-combustible dielectric.

original supports

It is not necessary to fence the support of a rack-mounted table lamp, which is quite complex and requires turning, if its lampshade is light, for example. from threads (see below) or thin hard plastic, and it is not supposed to place a light regulator and other electronics in the support. In this case, a fairly stable lamp support is obtained from a “pot-bellied” glass bottle with a wide bottom, pos. 1 in fig. A narrow bottle can be made heavier by throwing pebbles (pos. 2), steel balls, etc. into it. The lampshade holder is fixed to the neck with a standard screw plug or a piece of solid EPS foam, ground into the throat thread.

The hole for the cable in the bottle is drilled with a tubular thin-walled diamond drill. But glass is not at all like a tile, so you need to drill it in this way:

• The bottle is placed on its side and securely fastened.
• A plasticine board 2-3 cm high is molded around the future hole.
• Water is poured into the resulting hole.
• They drill under a layer of water at least at 2500 rpm with the gentlest and smoothest feed.

How a table lamp is made from a Jack Daniels whiskey bottle, see the video below:

Video: DIY bottle table lamp

Such a lamp will organically fit into, steampunk and other technogenic-utilitarian. Just don't make the mistake of trying to make her lampshade out of a flower pot or any other utensil. Technogenic-utilitarian styles are not a senseless heap of rubbish, their concepts are clearly thought out. Interior elements for them should be related to industrial, not agricultural or food production. A lampshade, for example, is needed from a tin reflector from an old production hanging lamp on a pantograph, a car headlight, a small spotlight, etc.

On fig. on the right is shown a very original version of the support of a “real large” table lamp made of ... rope! It is done in this way:

1. The rope is taken from a natural organic layer 6 + 1, i.e. 1 strand along the axis and 6 along the circumference;
2. A piece of rope is stretched by hand and loosened, turning at the same time in different directions against the direction of the twist of the strands;
3. The axial strand is carefully pulled out and a thin-walled copper tube with a fishing line threaded into it to tighten the cable is inserted instead;
4. The rope with the tube inside is pulled together by turning the hands in the direction of the twist of the strands;
5. The ends of the rope are firmly fixed on the tube with a winding cord;
6. Pull the cable into the tube;
7. The workpiece is bent and knitted in a knot. You need to bend a little, carefully so that the tube does not break;
8. The rope is tightened again, picking up the upturned strands, and impregnated with acrylic varnish.

Note: the tube must be taken for air conditioning systems, from oxygen-free copper. The red-copper gas or electrical tube in the assembly will most likely break.

Hinge Features

The mechanical part of a table lamp on a hinged arm is more complicated. The lamp shown on the left in the figure does not meet the requirements of electrical and fire safety: the cable is caught in combustible parts and can be pulled when manipulating the illuminator. Its loop hanging down can be hooked in the semi-darkness with a hand or a sharp object.

The cable to the light bulb holder in a table lamp on a hinged bracket should be run along dielectric fireproof knees either between the sides of its links, or, if the hinge link is solid, along its top, in the center and on the right in Fig. In this case, the cable on the hinge link must be fixed. If the hinge links are tubular, the cable is laid inside them. In any case, Ω-shaped cable loops with a diameter of 60 mm or more, but not less than 12 cable diameters, are made above the kinks of the hinge links. At the transition of the cable from the bracket to the illuminator, an Ω-loop is made from 90 mm, but not less than 20 cable diameters.

The balance of a table lamp on a hinge varies over a wide range and it is quite difficult to ensure its stability with a load. Because of this, manufacturers sometimes invent such systems that it is easier to shine with a flashlight than to adjust the light from such a miracle, see fig. left. Therefore, table lamps on hinges are often provided with screw terminals.

As a screw clamp for fastening a homemade table lamp to a tabletop, a small carpenter's clamp is excellent, see fig. on right. Better than a lamp clip from a furniture store: cheaper, holds more securely. The grip of the clamp is wider, and the lamp can be attached to the countertop of any conceivable and unthinkable thickness. You need to ask exactly the carpentry, because. jaws of locksmith clamps without soft coating.

The clamp is turned into a lamp holder using a socket made of a steel tube with an inside diameter of 10 mm and a length of 120-150 mm. In the handset approx. at half the length, a longitudinal cut is made as wide as the thickness of the clamp clip. The nest is attached to the clamp with through bolts. A steel pin with an eyelet is inserted into the socket tightly, but not tightly, which is a fixed link in the lower hinge of the lamp bracket. Hooks for hanging chandeliers with an end bent into a ring fit well here; the thread does not prevent them from turning smoothly in the socket.

When adapting the clamp to the lamp holder, it must be remembered that its holder is made of heavily carburized steel; so it is necessary that the jaws of the clamp do not succumb under the counterpressure of the compressible parts. High-carbon steel is very hard and rather brittle, so you need to drill it with a carbide drill at 800-900 rpm with a not strong smooth feed. It is impossible to beat with hard objects and try to bend the clamp clip!

Illuminator

This table lamp assembly should give the right light to the work area and is often the main decorative element. First of all, it should be noted here that compact, lightweight and economical LED illuminators (see Fig.) Shine well only in 3D models. In reality, however, their light still does not satisfy the medical and sanitary requirements for local working lighting.

reflectors

Hinged table lamp illuminators are made reflex, the lampshade is too bulky and heavy for them. The reflector must be selected parabolic, it gives a fairly concentrated and even light. You can make a single conical reflector yourself, but the light from it is uneven, tiring your eyes, and a lot of it is “scattered” to the sides in vain. Reflectors of good hinged table lamps are made with a reflective surface of the 4th order of curvature (for example, the Hobby, which has not lost its popularity for more than 20 years), but it is unrealistic to build one on your own.

The way out, if a suitable reflector is not found, is to use a krypton incandescent lamp with an internal reflector, it is also from conscientious manufacturers of the 4th order of curvature. In this case, the manufacture of the illuminator is reduced to installing a shell of any shape around the light bulb from any sufficiently strong and lightweight material that protects the lamp from accidental impacts.

The reflector of the illuminator of a table lamp on a hinged bracket must necessarily have an opening or holes at the top for the exit of heated air. Fluorescent lamps-housekeepers and LEDs seem to heat up weakly, but from being in a heated air cushion, their resource is sharply reduced, and they are not cheap.

Shade

Illuminators of rack table lamps are made in the form of a light bulb under. Its purpose is not only to be a fertile field for decor, but also a partially translucent reflector that provides the necessary illumination of the working area of ​​a given value. The lampshade for a table lamp can be made rigid frameless and soft on the frame. The frame of the lampshade is most often made of wire in the form of a truncated straight cone, on the left in the figure, with simple (in the center) and complex (on the right) curvilinear generatrices.

The simplest way to sheathe a straight conical lampshade is with pieces of tape. It is laborious, but good in that the outer surface is smoothly curved, without breaks. The seams on the rims of the lampshade are masked by ruffles (pos. 1 in the next figure), braid, fringe, etc.

It makes no sense to cut the fabric in the form of a truncated cone for covering a conical lampshade, because. as a result of tightening the material, the lampshade will turn out not to be conical, but faceted, pyramidal. It will be easier to sew a lampshade cover from wedges, the patterns of which are built step by step without the use of geometry:

• A sheet of thin cardboard or thick hard paper is applied to the frame section;
• Cardboard / paper is tied to the frame with an elastic band or tape;
• The contour of the pattern is outlined from the inside, this will give a lack of fabric necessary for tightly covering the lampshade with it;
• The fabric is taken in satin, twill or staple weave;
• Cut so that the warp threads of the fabric are oriented along the longitudinal axis of the pattern.

The finished lampshade is often decorated with rosettes, bows, etc. For such a case, there is an interesting design technique: the main fabric is taken thin, well-translucent, colorful, and the sockets are sewn in pale pastel colors or very light, poses. 2. In the light, the lamp stands modestly in the interior, but when it is turned on in the dark, everything becomes colored.

How to wrap a lampshade

On the lampshade frame with complex curvilinear ribs (with a "waist"), a sewn cover can simply be thrown over and pulled off with ribbons (pos. 3), thread, elastic band. But according to the rules, covering the lampshade with a cloth is done like this:

And in a different way?

There are other ways to make a table lamp shade, allowing you to embody a variety of original design ideas in the material. For example, a blank mandrel (item 1 in the figure) is glued from ordinary writing paper and impregnated twice with acrylic varnish. After the varnish has dried, lanolin is rubbed into the block several times until it ceases to be absorbed. A blank coated with lanolin is wrapped with a thread stretched through PVA glue, as in the manufacture of Christmas decorations with your own hands. The device for pulling the thread through the PVA is shown in fig. right below. The finished hard cover of the lampshade is fixed with drops of glue on the frame, which in this case can only consist of the lower rim, fastening ties and a faceplate for a chandelier cartridge.

On the same blank, a rigid seamless lampshade is made of thin synthetic fabric. Cut out like a scan of a truncated cone (with an allowance), a cut is wrapped around a blockhead. The fabric is fixed along the edges with paper clips and impregnated with acrylic varnish with a wide strip in the middle. When the varnish dries, the paper clips are removed and the edges are impregnated on the outside. The paper is torn out of the dried lampshade. The lapels are cut inside, a thick fishing line is put into the bends and fixed with drops of glue.

A frame with curved ribs can be braided horizontally with strips of fabric (pos. 3) or a narrow ribbon, newspaper tubes, straws, etc. In terms of lighting technology, ordinary propylene twine is excellent, but its aesthetics are that ... not very good ... Finally, a soft textile cover for the lampshade can be sewn with a simple straight sleeve along the diameter of the lower rim, and trimmed on top, pos. 4.

Quite original

The following 3 versions of the table lamp shade are among the outwardly extravagant, but provide very good lighting performance. Which, by the way, cannot be said about many home-made textile lampshades. For example, we buy (stealing is a sin, as Captain Barbosa from Pirates of the Caribbean would say) a milky plastic cover for a street lamp. Not too expensive, perfect light transmission with light diffusion, and does not break. And below is a wide opening through which enough light will come out for local working lighting. We decorate the outer surface of the ceiling with decoupage on a transparent basis or paint it by hand. What happens as a result - see in fig. But this, of course, is an option for an amateur who is resistant to psychedelic influences.

A plywood or glued board lampshade (see the following figure) has good light transmission due to internal reflections and greatly softens the light. In a table lamp with it, you can even put an LED light bulb with a frosted bulb. Rims - hoops for embroidery of different diameters. In the same way, you can make a table lamp integrated with a lampshade (on the right in the figure). It will take up a lot of space on the table, but it looks original, “environmentally”, and the light gives a very soft, not tiring.

A table lamp integrated with a lampshade can also be made from the same wonderful material -; in a thin layer it is translucent. The jellyfish lamp (see the figure on the right) is made from it. The manufacturing procedure is as follows:

green lamp

Revisit old photos with Lenin, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, Theodore or Franklin Delano, Mahatma Gandhi. Or, if you like, with Hitler, Mussolini, General Tojiyo, Chiang Kai-shek. And check out their table lamps. True, similar to the one on the left in the figure? Which in the USSR "general population" was not sold? And which gave rise to the popular expression "green lamp"?

“Green” luxury table lamps antique and modern

"Green lamps" are still being produced and sold well. True, judging by the prices (on the right in the figure), they have not become more accessible to ordinary citizens. The secret of the "green lamp" is in a lampshade made of green glass dyed in the mass, covered from the inside with a translucent (more precisely, 3/4 transparent) layer. The shape of the lampshade corresponds to a well-defined mathematical law. Within the wide, approx. 3 lampshade diameters, the working area of ​​the “green lamp” DN is almost cosecant-square, and then its illumination very smoothly turns into a greenish twilight. Slightly raised his eyes from the papers - the eyes and mind are resting.

The idea to make a lamp with my own hands came to mind when, after laying the linoleum in the house, there was a cardboard pipe left (on which the linoleum was wound).

To make a lamp with your own hands, it remains to buy a little bit of 2 meters of black and red wire, 2 meters of adhesive-backed LED strip, a 12V 1A power supply, spray paint in a can. The LED strip, of course, was a little expensive, but it is easier to work with. It was possible to use super-bright LEDs separately, but there is a lot of trouble with them in terms of desoldering between themselves and fastening inside the pipe.

Making a lamp with your own hands began with drawing preliminary sketches on paper. There was a desire that the lamp not only be curved in a plane, but also in space, and have a bizarre 3d wave shape.

After the sketch on paper satisfied my desires, I started making a lamp. Each pipe in the figure was measured and the pipes were cut to those dimensions. To get the necessary angles, templates were cut out of paper and fastened with tape on the pipe.

All tubes were laid out on the table, and adjustments were made to the waveform.

The cuts were made on a stationary circular saw. Thus, smooth cuts without burrs with a width of 2 mm are obtained.

Now you need to connect all the pipes into one. The main task is to make smooth bends, for this it does not hurt to apply a template (fiberboard sheet) on the table. Since the pipes are cardboard, they can be respectively connected using glue PVA, but I would recommend using adhesives that are stronger and harden faster (moment, superglue).

On the reverse side, wooden planks were screwed onto the screws so that the homemade lamp could be hung on the wall. And holes were drilled in each pipe for the output of wires from the LED strips.

The pipes were painted with ordinary paint in a spray can. Red was used, since the wall on which the lamp should be located was white, I wanted to get some contrast.

The paint dries very quickly, so you can proceed with the installation of LEDs. The main thing to remember is that you can cut the LED strip only in specially marked places. The tape must be marked in advance so that it is enough for all 12 pipes.

We solder red wires to the “+” contact, and black wires to the “-” contact, so as not to confuse the polarity later.

We place the LED strips inside the pipes and fix them with the adhesive side to the pipe wall, and we bring the wires out through the holes made in advance. It remains only to connect all the wires in parallel (connect red to red, and black to black) and connect to the power supply.

materials

The most suitable and affordable materials are paper and the cloth. They are easy to transform, they are well known to each of us and can be found in everyone. home. wonderful lamps obtained from threads or yarn. Naturally, glass can also be used for ceiling lamps. At home, these are ordinary or unusual, with an interesting shape, jars or bottles. Especially bold projects include plastic containers, coffee packaging, and plastic children's toys.

In addition, do not discard options such as rattan, bamboo and rubber. As a basis for a future product, both raw materials and a finished product can serve. So, for example, designers got the hang of creating amazing lampshades from beads, globes, parts of sets, mirror fragments and even crumpled music sheets! You just have to look at the things around you...

Understanding how difficult it is to move from thought to action, especially to see an exquisite accessory in an ordinary jar, we have prepared several master classes for you. Following the step-by-step instructions, you can easily make hand-made new clothes for any room in the house, dear to your heart.

Ideas and their implementation

Since we have already voiced the materials suitable for the manufacture of shades and lampshades, let's start with paper.

Plafond with butterflies

For work we need:

• white thin cardboard
• thin twine or fishing line
• glue gun
• wire for frame
• utility knife or scissors
• round nose pliers

Advice! Before you start work, decide on the size of the ceiling in finished form. In our example, the diameter is 30 cm, so we need a piece of cardboard 90 cm long.

1. We make a frame. We cut off a piece of wire 96-98 cm long. We turn the wire into a circle with a diameter of 30 cm and fix the ends with round-nose pliers.
2. We cut 3 hanging elements from twine or fishing line. We measure the length of the pieces, based on the height at which you plan to hang the lamp. We tie them to the wire in three places, evenly distributing the load.
3. We draw butterflies of different sizes on cardboard and cut them out.
4. We fold the cardboard, glue the joint with a strip of thick paper or stitch it with a stapler.
5. We fix the upper part on the wire. To do this, you can use both glue and thin wire.
6. The places of joints and cuts can be decorated with butterflies remaining after cutting.
   Look what an elegant lamp we have turned out. It will fit perfectly in the children's room and in the bedroom. You will see a special chic when you turn on the lamp and butterflies flutter along the walls.

Advice! Instead of butterflies, you can cut out snowflakes, stars or flowers. Decide for yourself what you like best.

In the style of the 60s

If you ask our grandmothers, they will certainly remember floor lamps with lampshades in the form of an inverted bucket, tied with colored threads. We can do exactly the same with our own hands.

We will need:

• lampshade frame - 2 pcs.
• decorative braid (3 colors, choose a combination to your liking)
• scissors
• crochet hook

Let's start manufacturing.

• We tie the first braid to the lower ring of the lampshade, leaving a tail of at least 5 cm.

• We pull it on the upper ring from the outside, throw it over it and stretch it through the inner side of the lower ring. We alternate actions until the beginning of the next frame sector.

• We fix the first braid and take the braid of a different color to work. We knit it to the next sector, not forgetting to leave the tail on the first knot.

• We do the same with the third sector, filling it with the remaining braid.

• We stretch the tails along the bottom of the lampshade with a crochet hook.

Here is our plafond from the distant 60s and it is ready, it remains only to insert the cartridge and assemble the chandelier in random order.

Braid with fringe

Another original idea for a do-it-yourself lampshade is also connected with a braid, but not a single layer, but with a fringe. What do we need for this?

Prepare:

1. two metal hoops or take an embroidery hoop
2. braid with fringe
3. fishing line
4. acrylic paint, the same color as the ribbon
5. glue gun
6. scissors

Advice! Fringed tape can be purchased at stores selling curtain and furniture decor.

1. We paint the hoops or hoops with acrylic paint. If they are already covered with varnish or other paint, it is better to sand and clean them.
2. We wait until the paint is completely dry, and make three marks on each lampshade ring, placing them at an equal distance from each other.
3. Cut off three identical pieces of fishing line.
4. We tie them to the smaller ring of the lampshade, leaving the upper ends with a margin, so that later we can tie them to the lamp cord.
5. We measure the length of the fringe, subtract 2 cm from it, and tie the fishing line to the second ring for the resulting length. So we can get a cascade.
6. We heat the glue gun and carefully glue the braid along the lower ring.
7. We do the same with the upper ring, pulling it out of the lower one.

Advice! Keep in mind that hot glue can melt the line, so try not to apply it directly to the line. Drop the glue on the paper, let it cool a little, and then apply it to the fishing line.

Everyone wants to decorate their home with decorative items. This brings something alive and completely non-standard to the interior of the house. Such a transformation also affects lighting, lighting fixtures made by yourself - this is a great option to transform life. This article will tell you how to make a lamp with your own hands.

There are countless ideas, this applies to both the design itself and its appearance. It can be a floor lamp or a chandelier shade, or even a table lamp.

materials

It is worth paying attention to safety precautions and using non-flammable materials. Do not use paper, plastic and similar materials that have a rather low ignition temperature.

As for the lamps themselves, it is worth using LED lamps, as they have many advantages, such as a long service life, do not overheat. It also has several shades and, of course, saves energy.

Ideas for lamps

Since relatively recently, the creation of interesting lighting fixtures from completely useless materials has become fashionable, a striking example of this are lamps from empty glass bottles.

There are countless ideas, however, if you have a desire to do something similar, but the idea has not matured, then you can peep photos of lamps made by yourself on the network.

The easiest and most effective way to make original lighting is to create a lamp from an ordinary glass jar with a screw cap.

Place the jar in hot water and dilute the detergent in it to remove the label and dirt. The next step is to drill a hole for the base. Now you need to insert the base into the cover and fix it.

The main thing is not to forget to solder the wire with the 220V plug, otherwise you will not have a power source. Finally screw in the light bulb and screw on the lid of the jar. Done, now you have a very simple lighting fixture that breaks out of the general concept of classic life.

By the way, the jar can be decorated with painted engravings or a knitted thread pattern. This is a very original and beautiful solution, for example, you can make a lamp with a knitted pattern in the shape of a flower.

Wooden lamps

This type of lighting fixture is completely different from simple designs. After all, a lamp made of wooden driftwood will look truly unusual. However, the work requires more time and accuracy when handling tools and materials.

But at the same time, for everyone, such work is quite within the power of almost anyone. And wood can be found in the forest plantation. The technology is quite simple, you need to clean the wood and sand it with sandpaper.

Now, in the necessary places, drill holes for the wiring, but this must be done where the wood blank will be installed closest to the ceiling. To heighten the effect, you can make small grooves in the tree where the wiring will be installed.

After laying the wiring, part of the wood with the wire can be puttied, and after waiting for the putty to dry completely, sand these places and open the entire snag with a colorless varnish.

It remains only to install this lamp. Of course, after the work done, skill and understanding will appear in this, and now, with a high degree of probability, you will be able to repair the lamp with your own hands.

Plank lamp

Not everyone is satisfied with a spotlight, but you can assemble designs from improvised materials. When working with wood, in particular with boards, trimmings often remain, and even they can be used. From them you can make an excellent decorative lamp.

The most interesting thing about this design is that you do not need to use nails. To create such a lighting fixture, you need 17 planks that will be the same size.

Now, each plank needs to be shaped like a wedge and make a base where the cartridge needs to be installed. The next thing, with the help of a drill, we will make a pair of holes in the base for each plank and, accordingly, in the blanks.

Take wooden pins and fasten the structure. This lamp is very easy to manufacture, but it looks very impressive.

If these ideas do not suit you, then on the network you can easily find master classes on making a lamp in video format.

DIY lamp photo

There are all sorts of lamps in electrical goods stores - manufacturers go to all sorts of tricks so that each buyer finds exactly what suits him both in design and in his pocket. But a hand-made sconce is still the most original functional home decoration.

Electricity and creativity

Electrical appliances require the manufacture, installation and operation of compliance with all the rules that are prescribed by law, safety standards and the laws of physics. Therefore, if there is no special knowledge and skills in working with electrical appliances, then it is best to use the base from an old sconce for creativity, at least its electrical filling. It is possible to assemble a wall lamp, as they say, from scratch only to someone who understands the materials, tools for collecting such equipment, knows the section of physics called "electricity", knows how to assemble electrical circuits that meet the requirements for household lighting devices. If all knowledge about this sphere of life comes down to a successfully forgotten school physics course, then it’s not worth the risk. It is better to use that wall lamp that has been asking for a trash heap for several years. Different types of creativity and craftsmanship allow you to create a sconce with your own hands. Photos of similar works are presented on this page. Therefore, the question of how to make a sconce with your own hands does not require a complicated answer, you just need to turn on your imagination.

Plafond for sconces - the essence of the lamp

Wall sconces perform an interesting functional task - lighting a small area of ​​the room. They are located on the wall, and most often the light from the sconce falls down, slightly scattering on the sides. That is why wall lamps are popular for creating comfort in the bedroom, in the kitchen above the table where the whole family gathers, near the seating area with an armchair or sofa. Such a local lighting device can have any design in any style - from eco-style to hi-tech. Only the interior of the room decides what the sconce lamp will be like. Therefore, for man-made wall lighting, you can use a variety of materials. The only condition is that they must be resistant to a sufficiently high temperature of the light bulb in operation. Although, thanks to modern LED lighting devices, this question disappears by itself - the LED bulb during operation heats up to 64 degrees in the lower part, where the necessary lamp elements are located. The flask itself heats up to approximately 33-34 degrees, i.e. you can easily hold it in your hands. That is why LED lamps allow you to use almost any material for the ceiling. Having thought of making a sconce with your own hands, you can refer to materials in available sources or printed publications in order to choose the appropriate option for your creativity.

Threads and weaving - a suitable basis for creativity

Different types of weaving from threads: macrame, tatting, knitting, crochet, on a fork - are actively used by needlewomen to decorate the interior of their home. Creating a lace sconce with your own hands for a craftswoman is not a problem, you just need to find a suitable scheme or develop it yourself. In preparation for work, you should first consider the basis of the ceiling. Will the lace be stretched or will it hang down, what shape is the ceiling and how to put the lace on it: observing the pattern, or will it be abstract, or undemanding to a clear correspondence to each rapport. Lace will look very elegant on a rounded ceiling of a classic shape. And for a non-trivial solution for a do-it-yourself sconce lamp, lace can be appropriate. For example, for a high-tech style, you can use Lurex or metallic threads. But even those who do not know how to knit will make a lace sconce with their own hands, using ready-made lace. Measure the area of ​​​​the frame for the ceiling and buy the required amount of the material you like with a margin for some shortcomings or unforeseen circumstances in the work - and an interesting, unusual lamp will decorate the room. In general, beautiful lamps are always obtained from threads. Even the chaos created from textiles can be presented in an unusual way, for example, by wrapping threads around a balloon, having previously smeared them with PVA glue. When the threads dry, the ball must be gently blown off by piercing with a needle. The resulting spider sphere is used as a lampshade for a lamp.

wood and light

Wooden objects look very original in any interior. Natural wood is beautiful - with its pattern, shades and color transitions. Using the natural curves of the branches, you can get interesting objects and their details. How to make a wooden sconce with your own hands? You can use several options. For example, you can take special blanks that are sold in stores for creativity. They are assembled or glued together, forming a ceiling for the lamp. You can try to make an unusual sconce from the most ordinary twigs collected during a walk in the park. Rinse small, 1.5-2.5 cm long twigs, clean them of dirt, and dry. Then inflate an ordinary balloon and stick branches on it in a chaotic manner using glue that does not destroy the rubber of the balloon, for example, building PVA. When the branches are well grasped, the ball must be pierced with a needle, it will deflate and fall behind the resulting ball of branches. The ceiling, if necessary, is covered with furniture varnish. The only thing is that it will be necessary to prepare the base on which the ceiling of the resulting diameter is attached. A lamp on the wall with your own hands can also be made from unusual wooden parts. For example, by disassembling wooden clothespins for spare parts. They are assembled together so that they form a circle, gluing to the base and to each other. Each half of the clothespin has an interesting shape with recesses that are just perfect for jute cord or decorative braid, chain, or any other material that is most appropriate for a particular interior solution. You can also use colored pencils - creating a chaotic lamp-ball or gluing them into a slender circle or semicircle to form a ceiling.

Sconce with your own hands from dishes?

Craftsmen just do not come up with something to create something interesting. For example, they use disposable plastic utensils - junk cheap material - to create interior items, including sconces, with their own hands. Plastic spoons, cutting off their cuttings, are collected in the shape of a flower, gluing them together in circles and in rows. Disposable forks, also without cuttings, are assembled, like a designer, with the help of cloves into a sphere for a ceiling. The plates are bent, getting two semicircles, and also fastened together. This is an interesting do-it-yourself sconce solution, which is actively used in decorative art.

And you can not throw away!

Unusual wall lamps are obtained from tin cans. Banks themselves already represent a rigid form that is easily suitable for a ceiling. You just need to decorate it. You can do this like this - draw a pattern on the bank like a dot painting and use a nail and a hammer to punch holes according to the pattern. So that the jar does not wrinkle when they work on it with a hammer, you need to put a wooden block inside it. The drawing should be built neatly, and the distances between the holes should be the same. When the drawing is completed, the jar needs to be painted.

An unusual do-it-yourself sconce is obtained from ordinary plastic bottles. They come in different colors, are easily cut with scissors and melted with a candle. Figures (flowers, butterflies, ribbons) are cut out of plastic, melted, shaped, and then glued to the base from the same bottle or to an old glass ceiling with glue. By the way, a glass ceiling that has lost its appearance can be decorated in any way and give it a second life.

"Delicious" sconces with their own hands

A lot of interesting things can be done using natural materials. For example, pumpkin. Yes, you can create magic yourself, without a fairy wand, if you just want to do something with your own hands. And the pumpkin is just asking for a desktop. There are pumpkin varieties that can only be eaten, and there are those that are not very suitable for a delicious dish, but the hard shell serves as a unique creative material, for example, to create a do-it-yourself wall lamp. The pumpkin is prepared for processing, and then pictures or a mandala drawing are cut out of it, whatever you want. Such a ceiling lamp for a wall lamp will not only decorate your home for Halloween, but also give a smile on any other day.

As easy as pie

The simplest sconce lamp can be made from an ordinary box, for example, from juice or milk. It is good when such a package is covered with a layer of metallized foil from the inside, which is the best suited for creating a lamp. From such a box, an original sconce will turn out if you cut out the walls in it and tighten them, for example, with parchment paper or lace fabric, or make plot pictures on the walls of the box. Such a lamp is suitable for a children's room, because a kid can come up with a picture, and parents will help cut it out. Joint creativity will make the room more comfortable, and the family more friendly.

If there is a desire to needlework, decorating your world, then there will always be materials for creativity and interesting solutions. You just need to want to create beauty with your own hands. Good luck!