Interesting ideas for lampshades from scrap materials

A lampshade or a shade on a lamp is something that over time loses its appearance and just gets bored. How refresh the floor lamp or chandelierwithout spending a penny? There are great ideas using materials at hand, starting from which you can create your own masterpiece.

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1 Button lampshades
2 Bugle and chandelier beads
3 Decorating the lamp with shells
4 Openwork masterpieces from napkins
5 Jute chandeliers
6 Decorating the lamp with wood
7 Jars and bottles for lighting
8 Paper shades
9 Floor lamps made of plastic dishes

Button lampshades

The most common buttons are an invaluable material for a wide variety of crafts. You can make of them charming panels, coasters for hot dishes, boxes, including lampshades.

Lampshade ideas from scrap materials — Even if you just stick the buttons on the paper base, you get an excellent shade, which will become a highlight of the interior.

Or you can collect the buttons on threads and let them hang freely, framing the lamp

Bugle and chandelier beads

Glass beads are one of the favorite materials for lampshades by designers. Loved because it is a win-win: glass is very “friendly” with rays of light and shimmers with precious reflections.

You can easily create your own masterpiece using bugles, which are sold as Christmas tree garlands.

Old beads may well go into work - multi-colored elements will look very bright and attractive

Decorating the lamp with shells

A trip to the sea is a long-awaited event that many people leave as a keepsake in the form of the collected collections of seashells. Only in most cases these shells then gather dust somewhere in the closet, and meanwhile they can be used more successfully.

See how amazing this chandelier looks. But there is only a rectangular frame to which threads with shells strung on them are suspended.

And, if you have small shells at your disposal, then there is almost limitless scope for imagination.

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Openwork masterpieces from napkins

The combination of light and openwork lace always looks gorgeous. If you still have grandmother's knitted napkins, they can turn into an exclusive lampshade. To give them a rounded shape, it is enough to starch them and lay them out to dry on an inflated ball.

You can tape several different napkins together.

If you know how to crochet, then you can use your talent to create a lampshade

Jute chandeliers

Jute rope keeps its shape perfectly if moistened with glue. Thus, intricate patterns can be created from jute.

A little patience - and you will have a very original decoration for the lamp.

And, if you don't have time or patience, then just wind the thread moistened with glue around the balloon, and when it dries up, just blow it off

Decorating the lamp with wood

Do original lamp can also be made from waste wood. Even thin branches or cuts will be used.

You can make a lampshade from sticks - pieces of branches about 10 cm in size

Small branch cuts, if processed and sanded, can become the basis for a lampshade.

Jars and bottles for lighting

Shades are very often made of glass, and you can also use glass for this purpose, only waste glass.

It is very easy to make a shade from an ordinary screw can. And if you have time, you can paint or decorate the jar

But to make such lamps from bottles, you have to tinker: cut off the bottom

Paper shades

Before talking on this topic, it is imperative to mention that paper shades can only be used on LED bulbs, otherwise you are at great risk. Fire may result if paper accidentally touches a heated lamp.

Even the simplest paper construction like this one will look very original.

With origami skills, amazing results can be achieved.

Floor lamps made of plastic dishes

Plastic spoon lampshades - this is already a classic. But, in addition to spoons, you can use other dishes.

The plafond can also be made from plates, you just need to figure out how to arrange them in an original way

And even the topic of spoons is not yet completely exhausted. See how original these spoons can look if you pierce them with a hot knitting needle

And these are not all available ideas. In addition - a master class on how to weave a lampshade from newspaper tubes:

If you want to continue the conversation on this topic - write in the comments. Maybe you have your own ideas?

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