Lampshade for table lamp by own hands

Good lighting can dramatically transform any room, as well as poor quality - make the room uncomfortable and gloomy. For example, in restaurants and cafes, soft warm lighting always prevails, relaxing and resting, but cold and sharp light in hospitals - on the contrary, strains eyesight. In the winter, we especially do not have enough sunlight, but I want the house to be light and cozy. Beautiful floor lamps and lamps can create a cozy home atmosphere. But if you did not find a suitable model in the store, then you can make a lamp shade for your desk lamp yourself. How to do it - we learn more from this article.

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How to start creating a shade?

First, choose a lamp or several lamps at once, which you decided to transform. Excellent for this device with LED and energy-saving lamps.

Important! Note that ordinary light bulbs can burn tissue.

First of all, we remove the skeleton, to which the new shade will be sewn. If it is not, then you can buy a new one in a construction shop or a specialized salon.

In principle, the frame can be made with your own hands, for this you need to purchase pliers and thick wire. At the expense of the form - here you can fantasize as much as you wish. But in order to have fewer problems, it is better to make a conical or cylindrical skeleton. What materials can I make a new lamp shade?

Before considering how to make a lampshade for a table lamp with your own hands, you need to familiarize yourself with the possible options for choosing the materials you need. Even the oldest lamp can be made stylish and attractive.

Use for this you can have a variety of materials. For example, beautiful fabrics, old film, beads, ribbons, fabric and knitted flowers, plastic, mesh, various paper and even wallpaper.

And now we will take a closer look at the most popular variants of transforming old lamps and creating true masterpieces.

Lampshade from paper with own hands

Paper lampshades are made not only by folk craftsmen, but also sold in the most ordinary shops, where furniture for the house is presented. As a rule, they are expensive, so it is more rational to make them yourself.

Important! The shape of such a lampshade can be any, and can be used for this in a variety of modern interiors.

For these purposes, you need to buy paper only the best quality and dense, so that the product has served as far as possible.

Important! It must be remembered that the thickness of the paper will depend on how much the lampshade will let light through.

There are several types of paper, ideally suited for the manufacture of such products:

1. Lampshade of rice paper. Such material is perfectly glued to the old lamps, which gives them a new luster. Often finished products are decorated with special stamps, in particular when using a monophonic base. White lampshades perfectly harmonize with muted shades and natural materials.
2. Lampshades from the wallpaper. This idea is especially attractive for its minimal financial costs. You can even use the remains of wallpaper, littered with repairs.

Important! The most popular option - making a hood for a desk lamp in the form of an accordion:

• First take a piece of wallpaper long about one and a half meters and a width of not more than 30 centimeters.
• Then it is folded into an accordion.
• After that, the resulting lampshade is pierced and threaded into it with laces.
• Then the structure is glued together.

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Lampshade for the house from the grid

And now we will consider how to make a lampshade for a floor lamp with our own hands from the most ordinary metal mesh, which you can find even in your garden or in the country:

1. You can form this material in any form, because you just need to connect the ends and create at your own discretion. More often products are manufactured in the form of an ellipse or ball. To obtain this form, you need to use a ready-made frame made of cardboard or strong wire.
2. To the lamp cable, the lampshade from the grid is fixed using the same wire.

Important! The finished lampshade can be decorated with weaving from colored laces or artificial flowers.

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Lace shade for lamp

With these lampshades, you can make the interior of your house more elegant and light. By themselves, the lace, depending on the variety, allows you to make the light more vivid or diffuse.

Important! Such products look great in children's rooms, bedrooms and living rooms.

Here are some useful tips that will help you in the process of this work:

• Naturally, the main material for making such a lampshade for a table lamp with their own hands will be lace. But if for someone they seem too expensive, then you can replace them with lace napkins or pieces of old curtains and tulle.
• The material must be cut correctly to give it the shape of a circle, strip or square.
• The most difficult to glue together with a special adhesive individual elements, so you need to do this as accurately and carefully.

Important! Lace can be glued even to the most ordinary balloon or a prepared frame covered with paper or cloth.

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Stylish lampshade from beads

Now we will learn how to make a skeleton for a lampshade with our own hands, which then will be covered with beads. To make a basis in this case it is possible from the same wire or an old frame. But the product itself will be made from beads, not paper or fabric, as in previous cases.

Important! Such a lampshade will be a good light, and the result itself is truly admirable.

For work you will need a skeleton, fishing line and, of course, beads:

1. The end of the line should be properly attached to the base, and you can thread beads on it, making nodules between them so that they do not move.
2. Then the second end of the line is attached to the frame.

Important! The process of making such a lampshade is quite laborious, but all the work is compensated by a unique decorative effect.

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Original shade from

fabric Many needlewomen are interested in how to sew a lampshade on a table lamp from various fabrics left after making other interior items or sewing clothes.

Important! In principle, suitable for this and light, and dense, and tough fabric. Some craftsmen even manage to make shades of wool - it all depends on the interior of the apartment and its own flight of fantasy.

If you already have a wire frame, it is better to use an opaque material that will help to hide it, for example, taffeta, cotton or silk of dark color.

The process of manufacturing a fabric lampshade consists of several steps:

1. Make a template to properly cut off the right amount of material:
   1. If the frame is in the shape of a cylinder, then you can measure the circumference of a circle and draw a line on the fabric, and then measure the height and mark it with a second line. After that, you just need to finish the two remaining sides and cut out the finished template.
   2. If the frame is cone-shaped, then you need to expand the paper, and use the pencil to mark the dotted lines on the sheet as they pass through the sheet. The frame must be fully scrolled. Then we connect the lines and cut out the template.
2. Apply the template to the finished frame, in order to check whether it is suitable for the size. In case of a discrepancy in its size, you need to re-take the measurements and make a new template.
3. Having got the right template by all standards, we attach it to the fabric:
   1. If you chose a material with a print, then you need to arrange the template so that all the elements of the picture look in one direction.
   2. Apply it to the wrong side of the material, and then attach it with pins.
   3. Then we draw the pattern and make small allowances.
   4. Gently remove the pins and wrap inwards allowances.
   5. We fix the bend line with pins.
4. The obtained parts are sewn on the sewing machine on three sides, one - it must remain untreated, so that it can be, then form a seam already directly on the frame.
5. Using an iron, we smoothly clean the fabric.
6. We cover the work surface with a piece of old tablecloth or paper, on it we lay out the fabric. Put the glue on it and wait for a few minutes.
7. We glue the fabric to our frame and hide the untreated section. The seam should be made as neat as possible.
8. We leave the ready lampshade for a while for complete drying. Within a day you can put it on your favorite table lamp and enjoy the result.

Now we know how to update the lampshade of the table lamp with our own hands, without spending a huge amount of money and a lot of time. Thanks to the above recommendations, you can decorate your house with unique elements of decor and breathe life into your favorite things that have become less attractive over the years.