DIY table lamp: step-by-step description, interesting ideas and reviews

Each person wants to have their own comfortable home in which they can truly relax and invite close friends. That is why the profession of designer is very popular today. But nothing decorates an apartment or a house as much as home-made furnishings. Such details have a special magic, because from them it blows soul, warmth and love. In addition, hand-made are truly unique and inimitable things that will surely add an original twist to the design of any house or apartment.

For example, it’s quite realistic to make exclusive lamps yourself. Let's consider several options.

Floor lamp

A floor lamp, or floor lamp always creates comfort in the room - they say in the reviews. That is why making a floor lamp with your own hands is an excellent idea. But what to assemble it from? For example, made of wood. And to be more precise, you will need the following details:

• Wooden cuttings (which are used for shovels, rakes) - 3 pcs.
• Soda and water.
• Wire (no thinner than two millimeters).
• Matter black and white, not translucent.
• Thick white cord.
• Cable.
• Fork.
• Switch.
• Self-tapping screws - 3 pcs.
• Cartridge.
• A light bulb.
• Instant glue.
• Hot melt adhesive.
• A metal tube of such a size that fits the connection of the cartridge and cable inside. The same tube should hold the cartridge itself.
• Acid soldering iron.
• White paint and varnish without color and gloss.
• Needle with thread.
• Screwdriver.
• Insulating tape.
• Shrink.
• Whatman - 3 sheets.
• PVA glue.
• Plastic washer.
• Wooden blank.

Getting to work

The process of manufacturing a floor lamp:

1. We connect the cartridge and the tube. For this purpose, the ears on the metal holder on the cartridge bend the other way around, and a nut thread is cut on the tube.
2. We pull the wires through the pipe. We connect the wire from the cartridge to the cable inside the tube. Everything is well insulated and poured from a thermal gun. At the junction of the cartridge with the pipe, a plastic washer is inserted to center the structure.
3. We create a support for the floor lamp from three wooden legs equally spaced from each other on one side and connected by a wooden blank on the other.
4. All newly made support is well coated with hot-melt adhesive to give the future lamp better strength.
5. The cable runs through the hole in the blank, the holder for the cartridge is fixed, and the plug and switch are connected.
6. The legs are covered with several layers of matte varnish. It is not by chance that the varnish was chosen without shine so that there would be no glare if light would fall on the legs.
7. We make the frame for the lampshade. It is made of thick durable wire, which easily takes any form. The shape of the lampshade can be absolutely anything your imagination wishes. It can be a cylinder, a pyramid, a square, or even a circle. Next, we additionally cut 4 identical pieces of wire to connect the attachment ring on the cartridge and our frame.
8. Soldering acid solders a new lampshade frame.
9. We neutralize the acid after soldering so that after a while it does not corrode the metal. For this purpose, mix soda with water and with this solution we wash well those parts of the frame that have been soldered. After you need to wait until the frame is completely dry.
10. Pull the fabric on the frame. So that it takes the necessary form, we make the basis of several sheets of paper (Whatman paper). The more layers, the less lampshade will let in light and be enlightened.
11. From the fabric, the selected figure is sewn according to the measurements of the frame, and an elastic band is inserted at the edges or then, after the fabric is put on the frame. The edges are wrapped inward and glued to the Whatman paper with instant glue.
12. We make a paper plug inside the frame and glue it directly to the lampshade. If inconsistencies were formed on the frame accidentally, then it is better to replace the Whatman paper with a white cloth, which is more elastic and better hides ugly joints. The gluing process is performed by hot-melt adhesive on top and bottom so that the plug does not sag.
13. We screw in the light bulb.
14. We remove traces of glue. If necessary, we re-pass varnish or paint in some places.
15. Put on the lampshade.
16. Turn on the do-it-yourself lamp.

From paper

You can make a design from this material. So, we will consider how to make a table lamp with your own hands out of paper.

Materials for use:

• Flashlight or lamp kit.
• Glue.
• Putty.
• The appendage to the base (for example, a wooden block is suitable).
• Ruler made of metal.
• Cardboard for the template.
• Thick paper.
• Block for grinding.
• Paint.
• Stationery knife.
• Drill.
• Art tape.

The process of making a paper table lamp:

1. We create a special cardboard frame in the shape of some geometric figure, which will be the basis of our lamp. It looks great when the selected shape is multifaceted.
2. You need to make a pattern of as many triangles as you need to create a conceived figure.
3. From thick paper with the help of templates, a knife and an iron ruler, we cut out the triangles with which we paste the cardboard template.
4. Using a similar method, we create a lampshade of a conceived shape, connecting parts and gluing art tape to the seams.
5. Allow the lamp to be created with your own hands to dry for at least 12 hours.
6. We reinforce all seams with glue from the inside.
7. We add weight to the base of the old lantern or lamp to give greater stability by screwing a wooden block to it.
8. We drill a hole in our paper design for the electric cord and insert the sleeve.
9. We insert the base of the lamp inside the cardboard frame.
10. We pull the cord through a new hole in it.
11. Glue the bottom to the base of the lamp.
12. We glue the last upper part of the paper base of the lamp, pre-drilling a hole for the central rod.
13. After drying, gently remove the remaining glue by grinding.
14. Putty our entire paper construction with a thin layer.
15. After the putty is completely dried, we grind it with the finest emery cloth.
16. We remove the dust.
17. Apply paint.
18. Next, a light bulb is screwed in and put on a table lamp, created by hand, a lampshade.

Idea with an old samovar

If you have an old samovar lying in your country house or at your grandmother , even with a leak, you don’t need to hurry to throw it away - make a lamp out of it with your own hands.

What is needed:

• Old unnecessary samovar.
• Paint.
• Lacquer.
• Decoupage (a picture cut inside a sheet of paper will do).
• The wire.
• Cartridge.
• Lamp.
• Shade.

Stages of work on a samovar-lamp:

1. First you need to prepare a samovar - to clean it from any kind of pollution. If the appearance of the samovar is already completely scary, then you can, first, primer it.
2. With paint (we choose the color to our taste), we process the entire outer part of the samovar.
3. When the paint has dried, proceed to decorating with decoupage. We apply it to the surface of our future lamp and apply the paints necessary for the idea. It turns out a drawing decor.
4. To fix the applied decoupage, apply varnish on top.
5. We hide the wires inside the samovar, and install the cartridge with the lamp at the very top.
6. We put on a lampshade, and our miraculous samovar will shine in the literal sense of the word.

LED lights

LED lamps are not cheap, but they have a number of numerous advantages. For example, a phytolamp favorably affects the intensive growth and general development of plants.

How to make a LED lamp for a greenhouse yourself? We will need a LED strip of red and blue in a ratio of 1: 3. After that, the tape simply stretches directly above the plants themselves and that's it - the simplest phytolamp works. And such a lamp, created with your own hands, will help to significantly save on lighting the entire greenhouse. Reviews say that the costs in this case are minimal.

Multicolored ribbons

The most diverse ideas for a lampshade, created with your own hands, you can come up with using colored ribbons.

What is needed:

1. Old lamp with a lampshade.
2. Two or three multi-colored, for choice, ribbons.
3. Tube of glue.
   

Action plan with tapes:

• It is necessary to remove the lampshade from the lamp and measure it (measure the outside).
• Cut the tape according to the measurements.
• We begin to stick the tape from the bottom. There are two options: you can glue close to each other, but you can at a distance. In the first embodiment, the lampshade will be radically changed, but the light coming from the lamp will be dim.
• Put the finished lampshade on the lamp.

Vintage lamp

You can make an original lamp and lampshade with your own hands in a vintage style by simply transforming your old lamp.

Materials for work:

• Old lamp with a lampshade.
• Napkins with different patterns.
• Glue and brush.
• Silk ribbon pastel colors.

Vintage style lamp technique:

1. Napkins are cut and approximately placed on the lampshade, so that the drawings were in order and looked.
2. Separate the substrate and the front part on each napkin.
3. Smear the lampshade with a brush.
4. We glue especially carefully the front thin sides of all the napkins.
5. At the top and bottom of the new lampshade, we stick a tape that matches the color scheme.

Conclusion

That's all. As you can see, making a lamp with your own hands is quite simple. You need to have a minimum set of materials, a little desire, time and imagination. A unique lamp will be an adornment in absolutely any room.