15 simple DIY lamps

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Interesting interior items made of wood, cardboard, glass and more.

How to make a lamp out of wood with your own hands

What do you need

• Branches;
• hand jigsaw or other sawing tool;
• sandpaper;
• base for the lamp;
• deep wide cover;
• superglue or glue gun;
• bulb.

How to do

Saw the branches into many pieces. They should be slightly different in length from each other.

Go over all the branches thoroughly with sandpaper.

Glue the lamp base into the cover.

Glue one branch vertically to the side of the lid.

Nearby, in the same way, glue another one to the lid and the first branch.

Continue gluing the rest of the branches in a circle.

Cover the entire base with wood. Lead the wire between the branches.

Screw the light bulb into the base.

What other options are there

With the help of a garland, you can create an original lamp in the form of a tree:

A very simple yet stylish plywood lamp:

How to make a paper moon lamp with your own hands

What do you need

• Paper napkins, towels, or toilet paper;
• PVA glue;
• water;
• brush;
• plastic ball;
• White paint;
• black paint;
• sponge;
• base for the lamp;
• plastic bucket with a lid;
• glue gun;
• knife;
• bulb;
• pencil;
• wire.

How to do

Disassemble napkins, towels, or toilet paper into single-ply pieces. Start gluing them to the ball by smearing it with glue lightly mixed with water. Place the pieces of paper on top of each other and also grease the top with glue.

Thus, glue the entire ball in several layers. Dry the paper completely.

Cover the shape with white paint and let dry. Mix white paint with a little black for a gray color. Use a sponge to paint gray spots on the ball.

Hot glue the lamp base to the back of the cover. Cut a large hole at the bottom of the bucket. Connect the lid and bucket and screw in the bulb.

Draw a circle on the ball with a pencil. You can circle a glass or some other object. Cut along the marked line and remove the plastic.

Place the ball on the light bulb. For reliability, you can glue the figure to the base.

How to make a cloud lamp out of cotton wool

What do you need

• Several paper lanterns of different sizes;
• glue gun;
• cotton wool;
• fishing line;
• wooden stick;
• hooks;
• Garland.

How to do

Cover one flashlight with a lot of cotton wool.

Hang a wooden stick from the hooks in the ceiling. This can be done with fishing line or thin rope. Tie another piece of line to the base of the flashlight.

Hang the flashlight by the line from the stick.

Cover the rest of the lanterns with cotton. Hang them up from a stick, forming a cloud. Fasten the parts together with glue.

Insert a garland into the lanterns. You can make it hang down from the cloud.

What other options are there

You can also glue over plastic bottles with garlands with cotton wool:

Or balloons:

How to make a cardboard lamp with your own hands

What do you need

• Thick cardboard;
• ruler;
• pencil or marker;
• scissors;
• gold paint;
• brush;
• Garland;
• glue gun.

How to do

Draw a large, five-pointed star on the cardboard. Cut out the shape along the outline.

Using a ruler, draw a line from each corner with scissors. Do not cut the cardboard all the way through.

Bend the shape inward along the marked lines.

Flip the star over and bend the edges towards the center as shown.

Use dots to mark the corners of the folded shape on another piece of cardboard.

Then connect these points with straight lines and cut out a second star.

Make many holes in the big star with scissors to match the number of almost all the bulbs in the garland. Paint the outside shape with gold.

Insert one bulb from the inside into each hole.

Glue the second to the back of the bent star, glueing the edges of the shape with glue.

What other options are there

Here's how to make a unicorn lamp like this:

Interesting lamp with stars:

Another unusual cardboard lamp:

You can even make a table lamp out of cardboard, which looks just like an ordinary one:

And a beautiful lantern:

How to make a lamp from a jar

What do you need

• Glass jar;
• glass stones (you can find them, for example, in the aquarium supplies);
• glue gun;
• electric candle or garland.

How to do

Glue one pebble to the jar.

Continue to glue the rest of the stones in rows in a circle.

In this way, decorate the entire jar.

Glue the candle to the inside of the lid. If using a garland, place it in a jar.

Close the jar.

What other options are there

Here is such a non-standard glass lamp, if you glue a jar with a garland on a high base: