Given today's trends in the world of design, one should not be surprised at the fantasies of craftsmen creating exclusive table and wall lamps. You can assemble a fashionable sconce lamp with your own hands from water pipes, wind it from an old video or tape, create from branches or snags. Creativity is omnipotent and knows no limits: even paper and mosquito nets, wine bottles and vases go into business.
Functions of small and point light sources in the interior
As you know, sconces are various wall lamps. They come in classic shapes with lampshades, strict or designer. One of the main purposes of such devices is to create an additional light source in the room. Sometimes they are used to highlight some area of the room. In the classic design, it is customary to symmetrically arrange two identical lamps. By correctly hanging the chandeliers and additional lighting, you can visually change even the size of the room.
It is very convenient when there is a sconce above an armchair or table (whether it’s done with your own hands or not - it doesn’t matter). It is easy to turn it on and off without getting up. It is appropriate to hang a lamp with a matte shade, so as not to “cut” the eyes of other family members. Designers use the same effect to highlight a specific object, such as a panel, by highlighting. For this venture, lamps with a downlight are used.
How to “deceive” the impression of the size of space with light?
Professionally playing with the direction of the rays from the lamps or sconces, you can visually extend or expand the room with your own hands, divide it into zones. Here are some tips on how to achieve the desired effects:
- when several identical lamps with upward rays are placed on the walls, the ceilings appear higher;
- for the effect of visual expansion of the territory around the perimeter, small bright light sources are attached;
- if you simultaneously turn on the wall lamp (sconce) at the far wall with the main chandelier, you can create the illusion of a square room with your own hands;
- intense illumination of the far wall will make the elongated room wider;
- to highlight large-pile carpets or curtains with volumetric ornaments will help soft lighting indoor plants;
- the location of the mirror opposite the lamp creates the effect of additional lighting, which is very convenient in a small hallway.
Light can emphasize the advantages or hide the imperfections of furniture, beat the features of the interior, highlight some details of the room.
Decorative sconces made of wood
With your own hands, using simple tools, you can make wonderful lights. A snag of picturesque form found near the river, 2 LED strips, a piece of electric wire, a push button switch, an electric plug, electrical tape, a fastener (to the wall), a piece of soft metal or hard nylon mesh, a little acrylic varnish will be used. Of the tools required:
- drill;
- screwdriver;
- a simple pencil;
- piece of aluminum wire (for the frame under the lampshade);
- a small brush (for varnish);
- driver for LEDs.
Making an unusual cap for a designer lamp
“Did you create it yourself?” Do-it-yourself sconce! - exclaim connoisseurs of unusual, exclusive things.
To decorate and slightly shade the bulbs, hide the light rays, on the base are attached unique umbrellas and hats. Wave-shaped and geometric, round and cylindrical, free and classic-shaped lampshades decorate and enliven any space, any zone in the room.
Pre-cut out of cardboard template. Putting it on the material intended to serve as a lamp cover, it is circled in pencil. Then they cut, connect and fasten the edges, allow to dry (if necessary). In accordance with the author’s idea, the finished decorative element is strengthened in one way or another on the basis of. If the driftwood is large, you can make several similar small lampshades and suspend them by placing them asymmetrically on a branch.
How to prepare the base for a homemade lamp?
To make a sconce with your own hands from the listed set, you need preliminary work on the processing of driftwood, intended to become the base of the lamp. The first rule states that its wood must be dried. If you are lucky with this, you can proceed further: the snag must be thoroughly cleaned from the outside, remove all dirt, dust, stuck lumps of earth, the remnants of the bark. Then be sure to rinse the branch under a strong stream of water and dry thoroughly for several hours. After checking the quality of the resulting surface, proceed to further processing.
Depending on the shape of the driftwood and the idea of the master, marks are placed on the wood surface with a pencil for drilling holes for wires and fasteners. When all the holes are made, the bark is covered with several layers of colorless acrylic varnish.
Closing: voila, beauty!
Before installing the lampshade, they pass the wire as a basis, install a driver on it for the operation of ice diodes, a voltage chopper and a plug (for inclusion in the network) and the LEDs themselves. If the internal electrical wiring system of the room allows, a self-made sconce can be attached immediately to it.
In conclusion, a lampshade is attached to the base.
The warm light of such a designer lamp will emphasize the comfort of home and the unusual skills of the landlord, will delight guests and friends with an atmosphere of kindness.