💡 Lampshade own hands: how to make yourself options

To make a lampshade with your hands, you need to select safe materials and thoughtful design lamp. Comfort in apartment not only creates the situation, but also light and well-chosen cover will add a certain flavor to the interior. Editorial HouseChief advises not to spend money to buy a new lamp, but to create an unusual item for the old lamp by following simple tips.

How to make a lampshade for a lamp with your hands: the basics of manufacturing

Before you make a shade for the lamp with your hands, choose equipment crafts. It is necessary to calculate the minimum distance from the cartridge and the lamp to the material in order to prevent fire. It is best to use a thick thread and fabric. Refresh shade for table lamps can be their own hands, using an old frame, then do not have to fiddle with a wire, you just remove the existing material and put on a new one.

Restoration shade lamp with his hands - a good idea, because the new bulbs can sometimes buy "I get a lot of money", especially in those cases when you want to select a destination for architectural design and decorate room.

You can use cardboard and paper, if you do not possess these materials closer than 7 cm to the lamp. Also suitable are any other materials: plastic five-liter bottles, wooden sticks, cork, fabric pieces.

Manufacture of the carcass bases

Lampshade chandelier for the kitchen, even a beginner needlewoman able to make their own hands for fifteen minutes. Only need an old lamp, which will be filmed ceiling, and some improvised materials. A popular option today - the shade of twine or a trendy loft-style lamp made from an old sieve, several graters for vegetables or other kitchen utensils.

Chandelier will retain its shape, if you leave the old carcass basis, but you can make a new one using the wire and wire cutters. Standard lamp can be of any shape: rectangular, trapezoidal, oval or square. Using cutting pliers, bent corners of the wire in the desired order. frame construction - the most difficult part of the job, if the master is not "filled his hand." First, you must be trained properly bend angles and form a certain type of frame.

Lampshade for table lamp: close-fitting and braiding basics

To make beautiful and original shade, you need to take a solid iron or aluminum wire. This material is flexible and easy to use. Do not necessarily buy the whole skein, if the house were old cables, you can remove the top layer and get the right amount of aluminum wire. you can buy stalistuyu wire in the construction market - it is suitable for complex structures, which is important to maintain a certain shape.

To create a lampshade need any improvised material, which finds homes: metal rings, earrings remnants, pieces of cloth and paper, thick thread and PVA glue, buttons. Make a braid can be cloth or thick thread.

Not necessarily pass a special master class, we need only to show imagination, focusing on simple photos. The fabric or any other material lay down smoothly, you need to do as much as possible uprights, which will be attached cover.

Models without frame

Homemade frameless models look very nice and stylish. It is important to choose a hard, high-quality and, at the same time, the plastic material with which it will be convenient to work with.

Variants of manufacturing a lampshade without frame:

• of knitted lace napkins. If it is a pity to throw out old products, you can brush them with glue and dry using a plastic bottle, giving the desired shape. The main thing is to leave room in the center of a lamp holder;
• of sewing thread. Yarns are wound onto a greased glue bead. After the preform is dry, remove the cover, and, if necessary, is trimmed with scissors;
• sticks of ice cream. Sticks should be washed and dried. First created the basis of the thread to which the overlapping glued sticks. It turns out the ceiling unusual form suitable for modern interiors.

You can also make a beautiful shade of vines, or of artificial flowers.

How to make a frame for the shade with their hands from a variety of materials

To make shade for table lamp with your hands, you first need to prepare the frame. This is a difficult part of the process to which you want to approach responsibly to all of the work was not done in vain, and the work is not collapsed when gluing the top layer.

No matter whether the shade with their hands made of yarn or fabric pieces have to be made to the foundation. For this purpose we use a simple instruction.

Of the bars of wood

From small pieces of wood can make a beautiful, modern chandelier.

Illustration	Description of the action
	Take the packaging timber shpazhek for sandwiches and prune them to the desired length. It should have: 5 to 19 cm rods, sticks 5 to 13 cm, 10 - 9 cm, 5 - 8 cm and 5 more rods of 2.5 cm
	Putting lampshade, since rods 13 cm long. We put them in the shape of a pentagon. Fastening shape with instant glue and give it to dry
	Take the wand 9 cm and glue them to the top, in the form of triangles
	Then, attach the workpiece to 8 cm, and lubricates adhesive corners so that all is well stuck
	We turn blank and ready sticks 19 cm
	Glue all work on the back side
	When the glue starts to dry, connect all the ends together. Care must be taken not to break the design
	The smallest wand use in order to connect the workpiece. Creating an opening for the lamp socket
	When the assembly work is finished, the workpiece may be painted in any color: beige, brown or silver

If a bubble appears to be "empty", you can add vertical and horizontal rods.

Of paper and paperboard

There are many ideas of the ceiling of manufacturing of paper or cardboard pieces. It looks best products from corrugated or "crumpled" cardboard. Make a bowl you can own for a few minutes.

Required:

• corrugated paper;
• glue;
• pencil and ruler;
• preform of rods or tubes.

The first step is formed by the frame in which to hold the entire ceiling. Then it superimposed layers of pieces of paper or cardboard-piece design. It is easy to manufacture only need to glue the workpiece so that they form a trapezoid or square, and put them on the frame.

Fabric and yarn

To make wicker lamp shade with their hands, we must act according to the instructions.

Illustration	Description of the action
	Take the ball, saucer, PVA glue, a little water and a polyethylene film
	Is applied to the ball plate and wrapped with polyethylene film workpiece several times
	Dilute the glue with a little water in order to get not too thick consistency
	Omit the entire yarn into the glue and for a while it steeps, the thread is well soaked
	We begin paste balls of yarn, leaving room for the lamp socket in the place where the plate is attached
	When the entire thread is wound, using glue residues directly on the ball and a good coat with the workpiece. We leave it to dry for at least 24 hours. When removing the entire structure has not collapsed, it is necessary to make sure that no more wet places, and everything is good has evaporated

Lamp shade with their hands out of scrap materials is simple and fast. You can make a multi-colored lamp, linking several threads together: red, yellow, green and blue. From pieces of cloth will also beautiful ceiling, if you cut small diamonds or triangles are pasted later on one another. If desired, you can be crosslinked one-piece cover and put it on the frame.

Creative lampshades for chandeliers

Before you make a shade for chandeliers with your hands, you need to decide what style will be executed product. In one room, and the apartment is not recommended to combine rag and wooden ceiling of different colors, it is best to make a lampshade from newspaper tubes for different rooms, but with some differences in the details.

You can make a lampshade for a bath with his hands out of wine corks or pieces of wood, but such a structure should cover the waterproof mixture in order to keep it from crumbling. Another option - lampshade macramé with their hands, the scheme step by step explain all the action. They are very easy to repeat.

covers ideas for lamps:

• a fabric cover of the separate pieces of tissue or crumpled;
• shade for desk lamp or crochet needles;
• lampshade of braided ropes, sewing yarns or twine;
• lamp shade with their hands out of paper, corrugated board or tracing paper;
• a plurality of tapes;
• of plastic twigs, leaves and flowers.

It is also possible to show imagination and make the lights in the home of the usual things that are usually not used for interior decoration: plates, teapot, spoon and fork, strainer, a colander, a bucket, metal grater.

If you need to quickly transform the old lamp, the easiest way - to stick a wide tape. They are superimposed on each other and fixed with adhesive. The light will not be bright enough, but get the original object of decoration apartments.

Wire and plugs

To make a lampshade with their hands from a tree, you need to choose a ready framework, or do it yourself.

Illustration	Description of the action
	To make the wooden lampshade, take cutter, a drill, a file, building a meter. Also need a lamp with a cartridge, pencil and ruler Corner
	Cut into rectangular blanks 15 × 2,5 cm
	All held together by the board press and cut off another 10 cm of length
	Using a drill hole is made, through which the fasteners will be performed
	Small wooden bolts connect all the parts. Should turn on several rods 7 boards in each
	Combine the first two racks, collect them from the circle
	All the remaining slats are also secured to the structure, but the shift of the board so that they went in a zigzag
	Connect a lamp holder and the design. Article available

Not necessary to use a special tool, you can do an ordinary saw or a jigsaw if you use thin boards.

The easiest way - to make a lampshade with their hands from a wire made of aluminum. It is plastic and holds the desired shape. If you glue the cork together, leaving space in the center, you can get the original and beautiful lamp.

Coverage in the art macrame

To make a lampshade with their hands for the chandelier made of threads is possible, using the technique of macrame. Such weaving looks good in the interior in the style of hyugge or loft, with the proviso that only one lamp will be "dressed" in such a case. Lamp shade with their hands for fabric chandelier adds comfort, but it is often difficult to fit nicely into the room.

Details in macramé style that fit the lamp:

• long tassels;
• diamond pattern;
• big holes through which will pass the light;
• bright colors: yellow, red, orange.

Antique model fits perfectly into the style of Shabby and Provence. It is best to choose a cone-shaped pattern, long parts and pastel colors. The main plus is that the cover can be removed and washed at any time.

Other ideas of creating shade with their hands out of simple materials

To decorate the table or floor lamp, not necessarily run to the supermarket and buy an expensive bowl. Sometimes it is enough just to use the old fabric, ribbons or pieces of wood to transform the look of the room.

Some housewives resort to a completely unique design options: a floor lamp out of the drum washing machine, corks from wine, rice paper, wicker baskets, old beads, pencils, napkins, plastic spoons, paper roses. You can collect all the items on the release and build of them unusual, interesting ceiling.

Finally

Going to the flea market, you can find things that will be perfect for creating shade. This can be anything from a broken washing machine drum to the cups.

And you love to do crafts for the house with his own hands? What, in your opinion, you can still make the ceiling for chandeliers?