Hand-made creations are not only fashionabletrend, but are also designed to add a special originality to the design, and a warm and cozy atmosphere to the home. To make a lamp with your own hands, you can select unnecessary materials and items that have already outlived their expiration date, giving them a second life. Let's consider how to make a floor lamp from such things yourself.
You can make a floor lamp with your own hands from any materials and unnecessary things.
Production features
Compared to other decorative elementsDIY lamps should be functional first and foremost. Their purpose is to provide illumination, which in turn will create a certain mood and comfort for the environment. The light effect emanating from such a lighting device can be: a light spot, a mysterious twilight, a bright glow. What definitely should not happen is the concealment of light due to the use of opaque and dense materials. Please note: special attention should be paid to the safety of using ready-made floor lamps. LED and energy-saving lamps will eliminate a fire hazard situation established according to the rules of an electrician - a short circuit. Return to the table of contents</a>
Application of electrotechnical materials
Stages of making a floor lamp (part 1).It is impossible to make a floor lamp yourself without using electricity. Lamp socket. It is recommended to choose E27 sockets, which are suitable for standard sockets. Lamps. Not the best choice for a homemade product - ordinary incandescent lamps. During operation, such lamps heat up too much and can cause a fire. It is more advisable in this situation to prefer lamps with an energy saving function. LEDs are an excellent alternative to lamps. Due to the easy-to-use and safe LED lamps, unrivaled lighting is created in the home. Electric cable. Lamps, made with your own hands and having one lamp, are connected using a 2x1.5 PVC cable. If there are metal parts in the design, 3-core wiring will be needed. Return to the table of contents</a>
Features of project development and implementation
Stages of making a floor lamp (part 2) Zhelayato make a lamp with your own hands, it is important to think over the place for installation and the intricacies of connection to the electrical wiring of the house, the conditions for operation. The main requirement for the lamp is its safety in operation. To prevent short circuits, all connection points are reliably insulated and hidden behind the parts of the product. The sequence of making the lamp:
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Original design developments
Stages of manufacturing a floor lamp.The most imaginative part of assembling lamps is considered to be making the lampshade. It is due to it that it is possible to achieve the exclusivity that distinguishes hand-made. Various materials can be used as a lampshade. Any thing can form the basis of a hand-made design. Woven and paper products are the most common methods, but not the only ones. From rather unexpected solutions it is possible to create original products. It is appropriate to use plastic or tin bottles, branches, building mixtures or old vases. The choice is limited exclusively by the craftsman's improvised means and his own imagination. Plate floor lamp. Polymer clay (plastic) is a kind of raw material for execution. It dries quickly, is easy to process and decorate. It is possible to create a beautiful and unique device from it. For manufacturing, you will need a base for applying the composition. Such a base can be a cardboard box (from under juice, for example) or a roll of paper. The basic form will affect the configuration of the lampshade.
Floor lamp drawing.Polymer clay is slowly squeezed onto a cardboard blank and left to dry completely. After removing the base material, the lampshade is ready for use. But a lampshade decorated with one of the known techniques, such as decoupage, will look much more interesting. If there is no polymer clay, it can be easily replaced with decorative putties, caulking, construction sealants, liquid nails and other means. A large vase as a floor lamp. It is a little more difficult to make a floor lamp from a large vase, since you will need to drill holes in a rather brittle material. A metal lid is attached to the neck, where a pin is mounted, which will replace the tripod. In order to provide stability to the product, the lid is secured with stops, the size of which corresponds to the widest place of the vase.
The lampshade can be decorated in an original way with paperflowers made of napkins. A cord is passed through a hollow pin and a hole in the lid and released through another hole drilled at the bottom of the vase on the side. A socket and a plug are attached to the wire. Sand is poured inside the vase to provide greater stability to the structure. The lampshade is made on the basis of a wire frame covered with openwork or simple fabric. A wooden lamp for a minimalist style. For a minimalist style, covering material and wooden slats are suitable for creating a lamp. The necessary sections are made from the slats, which are covered with stain and fastened with a furniture stapler. A lampshade is sewn from the covering material to a length slightly longer than the frame and gathered. The fabric is fastened with a stapler at the bottom and top of the frame edge. On the ribs of the lampshade, the fabric is covered with wide wooden corners, the staples are masked with thin slats.
The lampshade for the floor lamp can bedecorate with fabric decor. Energy-saving ceiling chandelier. To make such a lamp, you should turn to the metal fittings from which the chandelier was once made. The lamp can be made in several ways:
Homemade spotlights.To make such a lamp, you will need a garland, organza and beads, as well as a compact disc and a flexible wire. The length of the organza is selected depending on the length of the future product. Glass beads are found in the maximum possible quantity. If opaque beads are used, then this model will look less beautiful and only when it is turned off. When the product is turned on, such beads will take the form of multiple dark spots. Making lighting fixtures from scrap materials is an unlimited field for creativity for a real master. Using the proposed descriptions, you can not think about the idea of the product. If you have imagination and creative thinking, you can add individual decorative features to each type of design, leaving the technical part as is.
