Modern fashion is characterized by lighting devices characterized by simplicity of design, which are made by hand from environmentally friendly materials. Lamps made from threads with your own hands fit into this category. There is nothing easier than taking an ordinary skein of thread, PVA glue and making your own unusual decorative light for your own home.
A table lamp with a lampshade made of threads will bring unusualness and lightness to the interior of any living room. At the same time, such a lighting device made independently will help save budget funds on the purchase of a finished product.
Installation options for homemade thread lamps
For which rooms is a chandelier with a decorative shade made of threads suitable? There are quite a lot of options. Here everything depends primarily on the imagination of the owner of such a lighting device.
Recommendations:
- This lamp will perfectly decorate a kitchen decorated in a rustic style.
- Such a ceiling chandelier will blend well with the interior of the hall or living room.
- A floor lamp with a thread lampshade is ideal for a bedroom.
Lampshades for table lamps, made using this technology with your own hands, will perfectly decorate the table in your home office. As a result, working behind it will seem less monotonous.
Expert opinion
Ivan Zaitsev
Lighting specialist, consultant in the building materials department of a large chain of stores
Important! When deciding to make a decorative chandelier with your own hands, you need to take into account the decor and style of the room. It is not recommended to mix such products with classic style and minimalism. This option is ideal for a room in which most of the decorative items are made with your own hands from scrap materials. In this version, everything will turn out quite harmoniously.
How to make a chandelier with your own hands from wood
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What do you need
- Veneer in rolls (very thin sheets of wood);
- measuring tape;
- pencil;
- scissors;
- iron;
- parchment;
- paper clips;
- glue gun;
- lamp pendant;
- bulb.
How to do
1. Cut six 90 cm long strips from the veneer.
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2. Iron them through the parchment to even out the veneer.
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3. Place two strips crosswise on top of each other and secure with paper clips. Attach another ribbon to the side.
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4. Make another piece of the same shape from veneer. This triangle should be larger than the previous one.
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5. Place the pieces on top of each other as shown in the photo.
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6. Mark the outline of a small triangle on the bottom piece. Also trace the outlines of the intersecting stripes on both parts. All the details are in the video below.
7. Remove the top part, remove the staples from the bottom in one place. Lubricate the junction of the strips with glue and glue them together.
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8. Treat the veneer in the other two places in the same way. Glue the top piece. Place it on the bottom one along the marked marks and attach it with a gun.
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9. Connect adjacent strips of the upper part with paper clips, as shown in the photo and video below.
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10. Fasten adjacent strips of the lower part, pulling them under the upper ones.
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11. Glue the areas connected by paper clips. On the back side in the middle, attach the part into which the light bulb is screwed, trace it from the inside and cut off the excess.
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12. Insert the pendant, secure it to the ceiling and screw in the light bulb.
What other options are there?
Here is a more classic lamp made from veneer:
This is the process of creating an unusual large chandelier with light bulbs thrown over a wooden beam:
And here we show you how to make a beautiful wooden frame for an old, unsightly lamp:
What light sources are best to use for a thread lamp?
For lighting devices with a homemade lampshade made of threads, you can use any light bulbs - both standard ones with incandescent filament and energy-saving lamps. You can also use multiple cartridges.
Recommendations! The best option is LED sources. Such lamps, of course, are more expensive, but they fully pay for themselves due to their long service life and significant savings in electrical energy.
A lower power LED source shines much brighter and softer than an ordinary incandescent lamp. At the same time, LED models are produced with luminous flux of different colors.
Expert opinion
Ivan Zaitsev
Lighting specialist, consultant in the building materials department of a large chain of stores
Important! For such a lamp, it is better to use ceramic sockets, which, like LEDs, have a fairly long service life.
How to make a chandelier with your own hands from a globe
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What do you need
- Globe;
- drill;
- stationery knife;
- marker or pencil;
- lamp pendant;
- bulb.
How to do
1. Remove the globe from the stand. At the bottom, go around the circle with a drill and cut a hole. Details are in the video below.
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2. On the other side at the top, mark a circle the size of the light bulb socket. Go through it with a drill too and cut a hole.
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3. Make several holes on the globe with a drill in any places. You can walk along the edges of the continents or highlight some countries. Light will flow beautifully through the holes.
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4. Attach the light bulb pendant, screw it in and hang the chandelier.
Options for homemade thread lights
Before you start making a homemade lighting device out of yarn, you need to decide on its design and design solution. The choice of consumables for creating the frame of a lampshade or lampshade, as well as the amount of yarn required, will depend on these two points.
A chandelier made of threads can be made in two versions:
- Shade;
- Ball.
A ball-shaped product is the simplest option. This will require a minimum amount of materials and time.
To create a lampshade, you first need to prepare a metal frame made of thin wire.
How to make a chandelier with your own hands from thread tassels and hoops
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What do you need
- Yarn;
- small photo frame;
- scissors;
- 3 sets of wooden hoops of different diameters;
- 3 identical short and 1 long metal chains;
- pliers;
- bulb;
- lamp pendant.
How to do
1. Wrap the yarn around the photo frame many times and cut. Take a small piece of thread and tie it on top of the yarn so that the ends remain. Cut the threads on one side, where the frame hole is located.
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2. Remove the yarn from the frame and fold it in half. Place the knotted thread in the middle so that its ends are at the bottom and the loop is at the top. Details are in the video below. Cut another piece of thread and use it to tie a tassel just below the loop.
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3. Make the rest of the tassels in the same way. The quantity depends on the diameter of the hoop. The threads should frame them tightly.
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4. Remove the center hoops from all hoops - you won't need them. Open the large hoop and put some of the tassels on them by the loops.
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5. Close the large hoop. Place the tassels on the rest in the same way.
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6. Make nine pieces of thread. Place the middle hoop into the large one and tie them in three places at the same distance from each other.
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7. Place a small hoop inside and tie it to the middle one in three places. These threads should be located approximately in the middle between those that connect the large and medium ones.
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8. Turn the design over and straighten the tassels. Tie short chains to a large hoop at equal distances from each other.
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9. Use pliers to open the end link of the long chain. Place the attached chains on it and close it.
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10. Attach the pendant to the ceiling, screw in the light bulb and thread the lampshade through the bottom. A long chain can be hung, for example, on a hook mounted on the ceiling next to the base of the chandelier.
What other options are there?
There is another way to mount a chandelier. Place a metal ring on the lamp hanger and attach chains tied to the hoop to it. The detailed process is shown in the video below. By the way, the technology for making brushes in it is slightly different. And the author does not use a hoop, but metal hoops.
The tips of the brushes can be painted in a contrasting color:
Or make a gradient chandelier from colored threads, like here:
Making a homemade lampshade for a ceiling chandelier
Consumables
For each specific product, its own materials and tools are selected, but in any case you will need a skein of thread.
To make a spherical lampshade yourself, you need to prepare the following materials:
- inflatable children's ball;
- cotton threads of medium thickness;
- PVA glue;
- baby cream or Vaseline;
- electric wires;
- cartridge;
- plastic jar.
Instructions for making a lampshade
The manufacture of a lamp, as a rule, begins with a lampshade.
- First of all, you need to inflate the balloon, tie it well so that it does not let air through.
- A circle with a diameter of 7 cm is drawn around the tied ear with a marker. After creating the design, a hole for the cartridge will be cut along its contours.
- Next, you need to coat the entire surface of the ball with baby cream or Vaseline.
- We dilute PVA glue with water - proportion 1/3 (water/glue).
- The threads on the spool are treated with an adhesive mixture.
- Now, in random order, you need to wrap yarn around the entire ball, trying to create an attractive spread of threads.
- After this, to tighten the threads, you need to untie the ball and blow air into it a little. As a result, the ceiling will look neater and more attractive.
- Now we apply several layers of adhesive solution to the workpiece.
- We give the product about 8 hours (more, but not less) to dry.
- We deflate the ball and take it out of the finished structure.
DIY decorative LED lamp made from threads is ready! To make it more attractive, it is recommended to cover the surface of the lampshade with several layers of varnish.
Important! In the process of making the lampshade, the threads should be additionally coated with an adhesive mixture before they are wound onto the ball. Then the structure will be solid and more durable.
How to make a chandelier with your own hands from a plastic bottle
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What do you need
- Plastic bottle with a volume of 20 l;
- knife or other suitable cutting tool;
- gold spray paint;
- black spray paint;
- lamp pendant;
- bulb.
How to do
1. Carefully cut off the top of the bottle. The bottom one will no longer be useful. Remove the cover.
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2. Paint the inside of the plastic with gold paint.
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3. Cover the outside with black paint. Let the future chandelier dry completely.
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4. Place the chandelier on the pendant and screw in the light bulb.
What other options are there?
To make this chandelier, we took a five-liter bottle and decorated it with the remains of wallpaper folded using the origami technique:
Chandelier assembly
Then everything is very simple:
- Take a pre-prepared plastic jar. A hole is cut in the center.
- The workpiece is painted in a suitable color.
- The cartridge is connected to electrical wires, passed through a hole in the can, and suspended from the ceiling base.
- Next, the selected light bulb is screwed into the socket, and a hand-made lampshade made from yarn is hung from the socket.
- The lighting device is ready!
Expert opinion
Ivan Zaitsev
Lighting specialist, consultant in the building materials department of a large chain of stores
For your information! To free yourself from all these additional operations, a ready-made base for a ceiling chandelier can be purchased at a store of lighting equipment and accessories for it.
How to make a chandelier with your own hands from glass bottles
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What do you need
- Glass bottles;
- glass bottle cutting machine;
- sandpaper;
- decorative wire;
- lamp hangers;
- light bulbs.
How to do
1. Rinse the bottles thoroughly and remove the stickers, if any. Cut the bottom using a machine and go along the edge of the cut with sandpaper.
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2. Thread the wire into the neck and attach the socket. Randomly wrap the bottles with decorative wire and screw in the light bulbs.
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What other options are there?
In this master class, bottles were attached to a wooden base and the chandelier was decorated with artificial greenery:
