It would seem, why today “reinvent the wheel” and try to make home furnishings yourself, if the stores have goods for every taste? But after all, goods made in bulk quickly bore, and I want things to appear in the rooms that express the individuality of the owners, their aspirations and tastes. In this case, the best way out is to do something with your own hands. For example, a lamp can become such a thing, because it is known that it depends on the organization of lighting how cozy and “warm” the atmosphere in the house will be.
There are many ideas how to make a lamp with your own hands, it all depends on the availability of materials at hand, the skills and imagination of the author.
For example, a do-it-yourself lamp for a house or a summer residence can be made from beautiful wine bottles. Choosing too large and massive bottles is not worth it, as the chandelier will be too heavy. To translate this idea into reality, you need to go to the workshop, where they can carefully cut the bottoms of the bottles and process their edges. Of course, if the home craftsman has the equipment for cutting and processing glass, he can do this work himself. After the bottom of the bottle is removed, you will need to insert a cartridge with a bulb and a wire into it, and the home-made chandelier is almost ready. It remains only to decorate the "newly made" lampshade from the bottle. To do this, you can use paints for painting on glass, ribbons, lace, or whatever the author tells the imagination.
You can make the lamp yourself from polymer clay - a material that is sold in stores for artists. To make a lamp, it is better to purchase clay in the form of a paste. In addition to clay, you will also need a base with a light bulb. Depending on the shape of this base, you need to make a blank of the future lampshade from cardboard. If the base, for example, is square, then you can use a pack of juice packs as a template.
Making a lamp with your own hands using polymer clay is not difficult. To do this, it is enough to simply squeeze out mass in a random order on the prepared template. Such lamps with a chaotic arrangement of clay strips look attractive and exotic. After the work is completed, the workpiece is given time to dry and a cardboard template is removed from it. Now the resulting "lampshade" needs to be put on the base with a lamp and the exclusive lamp is ready.
An interesting lamp with your own hands can be made from wooden sticks intended for cooking barbecue. True, you need to consider that this work is painstaking and requires patience. The first four sticks are laid out in the form of a square or “well” so that the tips of the sticks protrude beyond the perimeter. The blank is glued together, then the sticks begin to attach from above, "building up" the future lampshade in height. How high the future lamp will turn out depends solely on the patience of the master and the availability of material, that is, sticks. After completing the assembly, you can start decorating the lamp by decorating the lampshade in accordance with the style of the room where you plan to hang it.
Do-it-yourself decorative lamp can be made of fabric using tulle, organza, silk and other translucent materials. You can stretch homemade lampshades on frames left over from old fixtures. And in order to make a lamp of its original form, the frame can be made independently, for example, from wire.
Thus, a variety of materials can be used for the manufacture and decoration of home-made lamps . Even such unexpected ones as paper disposable cups, for example. However, when undertaking such creative work, it is important to remember fire safety. Incandescent bulbs must not be inserted into lamps with a lampshade made of paper, fabric and other combustible materials, as they heat up during operation. The best option for such lamps is LED or energy-saving lamps of low power.