3 Lamp Models To Make With Recycled Materials

A lamp that illuminates well embellishes any space. Here are three ways you can easily make a lamp with materials you won’t have a hard time finding.

Here we offer you three ways to make a lamp with recycled materials. These lamps are so easy to make that you will be amazed. When ready, these lamps will look straight out of a home decor store.

In addition, your investment will be less (or even nonexistent), and you will only need a few materials that you no longer use and a little imagination.

Good lighting is an essential element in decoration, but what matters is the originality in the choice of materials. That is why there are thousands of lamp models on the market. With these models in mind, you will make your own lamp for your interior.

Whether you are skilled with your hands or not, you will have no difficulty in making the models that we offer you here. If you follow our instructions, we guarantee that you will be satisfied with the result. We even encourage you to add your own unique touch to your designs.

1. Make a lamp with crystal beads and sequins

This first idea is both modern and elegant. You can combine crystal beads of different shapes and sizes with large sequins.

The idea is to make a lamp that shines with a thousand lights to be able to create a youthful and joyful atmosphere. If you prefer to create a romantic mood , a fairly low yellow bulb will do just fine.

This type of lamp is perfect for the bedroom, but it will look great in any room in the house. It’s up to you to show your imagination and get started!

Equipment 

• 174 crystal beads of different shapes and sizes with a hole
• 1 thick cardboard disc without perforation, twenty centimeters in diameter
• Large sequins (the quantity of your choice)
• 7 CDs you no longer use
• 1 spray of silver-colored paint
• 1 bulb socket
• Nylon thread
• Silicone gun

The instructions

• In the middle of the cardboard disc, make a hole whose diameter should match the diameter of your bulb socket.
• Paint the socket with the spray paint silver color, then let dry.
• Break CDs with your hands so that you get fairly large songs.
• Glue the CD pieces onto the cardboard disc, taking care not to cover the hole and leaving space between the different pieces. This will create a faded mosaic effect.
• Now is the time to cut the nylon thread. You must end up with twenty different sized threads. Cut a first thread of twenty centimeters. For the second thread, count an extra centimeter, or twenty-one centimeters, and so on, until you get twenty threads.
• Take the shortest thread (the one of twenty centimeters) and nine crystal beads. Pass the thread inside a crystal bead, and fix the bead with silicone so that the bead cannot move. Attach a second bead, leaving one centimeter of separation between the two beads.
• Then repeat the operation with the other wires. For every centimeter of extra thread, count an extra bead. You will therefore fix ten beads on the 21-centimeter thread.
• Add glitter wherever you want. Then fix them with silicone.
• Once your threads are ready, hang them on the cardboard disc so that the pearl threads hang down. Secure them by increasing size.
• All you have to do is place the socket and then put a bulb.
• That’s it !

2. Make a lamp with a glass bottle

Cutting glass to make this model of lamp is so simple that you will be amazed.  Choose the  bottle you like the most. It can be a particular color, size or shape. You can then place it randomly in a corner of your apartment or on a table.

As soon as you finish making it, you will want to make another one, because this model is at the same time very simple to make, very economical and very pretty. No one will believe you when you say this is your creation.

Equipment

• 1 glass bottle
• 1 lamp socket
• Bucket of cold water (3 liters)
• Glass cutter
• Pliers
• Torch
• Sandpaper

The instructions 

• Using the glass cutter, mark where you want to cut the bottle.
• With a torch, send heat to the mark you just made.
• Then quickly place the bottle in the bucket of cold water.
• With the pliers, give several strong blows on the bottle. The bottle will shatter.
• Then, don’t forget to smooth the edges well.
• That’s it !

3. Make a lamp with tabs from cans

It is possible to make a very nice lamp with tabs from cans. Your lamp will be both modern and eye-catching. No one will believe that you made it. Did you know that similar models were on sale in decoration stores for a substantial sum of money? 

Equipment

• Pliers
• 1 old lamp with a metal bracket
• 50 can tabs (quantity may vary depending on your lamp size)

The instructions

• Carefully remove the shade from the old lamp. Keep only the metal base, our working base.
• Fold all the tabs in half starting at the wide end.
• On this same end, cut so that you can then hang the tab on the upper part of the metal base.
• Hang tabs on the entire upper structure of the metal base
• Hook new tabs onto the already hooked tabs. And so on until you are satisfied with the size of your new shade.

Keep in mind that recycling materials is about taking care of the planet.