Do not rush to empty empty glass and plastic bottles. Of these, you can do many useful things in the household. We suggest you to learn how to make a lamp from a bottle.
Simple table lamp
To make an original table lamp, you will need:
- a suitable glass bottle from wine, champagne, whiskey or cognac;
- a cartridge with an electric cord, which has a socket and a switch;
- ready lampshade;
- a light bulb;
- rubber stopper-stabilizer;
- screwdriver.
The order of the robots to create a table lamp-lamp:
- Cut the rubber stopper so that it fits easily in the neck of the bottle (picture 1).
- To the plug, screw the cartridge and connect the wires (pictures 2 and 3).
- Make an arch-fastening, to which the lampshade will be attached and screw the light bulb (picture 4).
- Insert the plug into the socket and turn on the lamp (picture 5).
The lamp from the bottle with your own hands is ready!
The principle is the same, but the design is different
Another option for creating a table lamp, but different in performance and design.
Instructions: how to make lamps from bottles (photo below):
- Take a glass bottle and make a round hole at the bottom, closer to the bottom, using a drill on the glass.
- Make a hole in the cork and thread an electrical cord into it, and thread the thread on one side.
- Screw a decorative cartridge.
- Place the cord in a bottle and close the neck with a cork.
- Pull the cord out of the hole in the bottle outside.
- Screw in the light bulb.
The original lamp from the bottle is ready!
Hanging lamps from bottles - detach the bottom
Such chandeliers will perfectly fit in the interior of the kitchen, living room, bar, country house or cafe.
To make them, first you need to cut off the bottom of the bottle:
- Take a woolen thread, a solvent, a bottle, a lighter, a sandpaper, a basin with ice water.
- Cut a long piece of thread and soak it in a solvent.
- Around the bottle, on the place to be cut, tie several circles of woolen thread.
- Take the bottle so that it is parallel to the ground and set the thread on fire.
- The bottle needs to be gently scrolled around the axis for several minutes.
- When the fire goes out, immediately lower the bottle into the icy water.
- Carefully detach the bottom.
- Wipe off the edges of the bottle with sandpaper.
Making a Chandelier
When the bottom is cut off, you can proceed with the assembly of the lamp:
- Take the cartridge or the stopper and insert it into the neck.
- Connect the cord.
- Screw in the light bulb.
- Hang the lamp from the bottle to the ceiling with a hook or make a special fixation.
Thus, it is possible to make lampshades instead ofhabitual chandeliers. To do this, simply measure the diameter of the neck of the bottle and see if it fits the size of the finished cartridge. If not, cut off the neck just as you were getting rid of the bottom of the bottle. Hang up the ready-made plafond in place of the old one.
Possible design of fixtures
It is not necessary to make a lamp from an ordinary bottle. It can be used as a basis for the implementation of interesting ideas and ideas.
Design options:
- Paint the bottle with acrylic paint. You can draw a picture or make a stained-glass window. Very beautifully looks a lot of lamps from bottles, identical in shape, but painted in different colors.
- You can tightly wrap the bottle thread or yarn.
- Cover the bottle with gold leaf, make an engraving.
- If you make a table lamp, then insidebottles can be poured coffee beans, colorful salt, seasonings, cereals, pasta and so on. Such a lamp will not only fulfill a direct purpose, but will also serve as an excellent decor for the kitchen.
- You can do decoupage bottles and much more.
- If there are large jars from under the spirits, they will also serve as an excellent material for creating lamps.
- To make a hanging lamp, it is not necessarya cartridge or a stopper to fix in a neck of a bottle. You can put the cord completely in a container, and place all the other parts under a narrow top. Such a bottle will look more like a lampshade. Only then it is necessary to think carefully about fixing an electric cord.
Lights from garlands
Do you want the garland to decorate the room all year round, and not just for the New Year? You can do this very simply.
Master class on the creation of luminous decor:
- Pick up the right glass bottle, New Year's garland, sandpaper and drill.
- Clean the bottle of all labels.
- Fix the bottle and drill neatlysmall hole under. Through it, the cord from the garland must pass freely. Work carefully, because it is very easy not only to get hurt, but also to break the bottle.
- Using a sandpaper, smooth the edges of the holes so that you do not get hurt later.
- Push the inside of the bottle through the drilledhole garland. You need to put the end where there is no plug and mode switch. Try to shovel the garland so that it spins inside the bottle.
All is ready! If you want, you can somehow zadkorirovat bottle. For example, draw a picture, and attach a ribbon or bow on the neck.
Such a lamp is very safe, because from the garland it is not exactly melted.
Lampshade made of plastic
Some will say that such a luminaire made of plastic bottles is unsafe and has a non-aesthetic appearance. In urban conditions, this is indeed the case. But it is ideal for a gazebo in the country.
Master-class: how to make a lamp from a plastic bottle with your own hands:
- Prepare a cartridge with an electrical cord andlight bulb (need LED, housekeeper or usual, but small capacity), five-liter water tank, glue gun, pliers, plastic spoons, screwdriver, construction knife.
- With pliers, bite off the handle completely from the spoon to leave one oval piece.
- Cut off the bottom with a construction knife.
- Connect the adhesive gun to the mains.
- When it's ready, start sticking the spoons. The first row goes from below, and all subsequent ones are superimposed on the previous ones.
- Okleyte, therefore, all the baklag.
- Glue the spoons together, folding them one into one to make a ring.
- Fasten the chuck and cord in the neck of the bottle.
- Glue a ring of spoons on the neck.
- Screw in the light bulb.
The lampshade is ready! If desired, you can paint it. To paint the paint evenly, it is better to paint each spoon separately, and then to cover them with a bucklug. It is most convenient to use paint from cans. So you get less soiled and the layer will evenly lie on the surface of the spoons. In addition, it dries faster.
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