How to make street lamps from improvised materials

It is not difficult to make a street lamp with your own hands, since for this you can adapt various materials at hand. The main thing is to choose the right solutions and do the work correctly so that home-made equipment provides high-quality light and is safe at the same time.

What can be used to make lamps

There are a lot of options, it is important not to limit your imagination and take into account the design site. The most commonly used solutions are:

1. Steel products or blanks. It can be either a finished container with slots or holes, or forged products or options assembled on your own using rivets or welding.
2. Lamps made of wooden slats or natural material - twigs, branches, etc. They are good for ease of processing and availability.
   The simplest lamps are often made from wood.
3. Aluminum and copper are also good for the job, but finding suitable containers or blanks can be difficult. Metals are easy to work with and are not afraid of heating.
4. Plastic is good for its strength, weather resistance and affordability. You can choose containers of a suitable size without much difficulty, but you can only put lamps in such lamps that do not heat up much.
5. Glass containers are a convenient solution that protects the light bulb well and at the same time looks stylish. The main thing is to choose options for a suitable size and shape.

You can experiment with different materials, since it is impossible to determine the quality of light before manufacturing.

Interesting design options

To make it easier to figure out how to make a street lamp with your own hands, consider several interesting options. You can use them as an example, or you can come up with something of your own:

1. Use of graters as lampshades. The usual household fixture of a tetrahedral shape can be adapted both as a separate lamp and as a ceiling lamp in a chandelier.
   Graters are suitable for making chandeliers in the gazebo.
2. The use of cans is the simplest, but very unusual solution. You just need to punch holes in them with a nail to create the desired pattern or pattern.
   3 steps and the lantern is ready.
3. Wooden pole with cutout. If there is a suitable element, you can make an angular cutout in it and put an overhead or built-in lamp. This option involves the use of finished equipment, but due to its installation in a wooden element, it looks unusual.
4. You can simply take a screw-on glass jar and place a candle inside. It turns out an elegant lamp, which can also be used as decoration.
   Candles do not give bright light, but they provide a romantic atmosphere.

The video will show how to make a lamp from a bar.

Outdoor lamps made from natural materials

Most often, in this case, wood or vine is used, but you can also take waste from construction work - slats, planks, etc. There are many options, you can disassemble the simplest of them:

1. A vine or long rods are assembled. As a template, it is easiest to use an inflatable ball or a balloon of a suitable size. First, the workpiece must be carefully braided, leave a hole for the cartridge, through which, after the end of work, the template is removed. This solution can be used both on the street and in a country house or bathhouse.
   The process of making a lamp from rods.
2. Use saw cuts of trunks of small diameter. Large holes are drilled in them, after which the blanks are glued together, a balloon is suitable as a template. To protect against moisture, it is better to pre-varnish the surface of the saw cuts with varnish.
3. To make a ceiling, the slats are stacked in tiers and glued or fastened with nails. The shape can be either classic quadrangular or triangular or polygonal.

Some use reeds and other flexible materials for work to braid an impromptu floor lamp, the frame for which is easy to make from twigs or branches. Such solutions look very original.

How to make a metal lantern

In this case, it is worth choosing a manufacturing method based on your own skills and equipment that is at hand. If you have the skills to create forged products, then there can be many options, since you can form a ceiling of any size and configuration.But even if you have the simplest set of devices at hand, you can make different versions of the lanterns:

1. Use a variety of containers, making cuts or holes in them in any number and order to achieve the desired level of illumination. Or you can roll up a tin or other flexible metal shade to provide directional lighting.
2. It is easy to assemble a square or other lantern frame from a drywall profile. A base is made from the corners and screws, and the holes in it can be closed with pieces of polycarbonate or glass, which, for reliability, is best placed on a sealant.
3. You can purchase blanks of forged elements and weld them to a simple frame made of a metal bar or corner.
   Forged options are strong and durable.

Homemade plastic lamps

For the manufacture of decorative lampshades and other similar crafts, you can use various plastic products, which are most often simply thrown away. You can literally make a stylish lantern in half an hour or an hour - a drawing is not needed here, since it’s easy to figure out the work:

1. It is easy to assemble a stylish lampshade from plastic spoons using a balloon as a template. Before manufacturing, the handles of the spoons must be cut off, and the easiest way to glue them is with superglue in the form of a gel. The rows are stacked with an offset by analogy with scales. The result is a chandelier that gives diffused light.
2. If you take a large bottle used in coolers and a few ordinary plastic bottles (preferably colored ones), you can make an interesting chandelier. To do this, the upper part of the bottle is cut off, and on the outside it is pasted over with parts of the bottles, as shown in the photo below - at the bottom of the halves, and the higher, the smaller fragments.And in the neck it is convenient to mount the cartridge under the lamp.
   Making such a lamp for outdoor use is not difficult.

If a lot of plastic cups have accumulated, you can glue them in the form of a lampshade with the bottoms inside.

Glass bottle lantern

If there are beautiful glass bottles or jars, you can make a lamp for giving or gazebos near the house. There are several options, the simplest of them are:

1. A garland with bright white bulbs is placed inside, its size is selected according to the capacity of the bottle. It is desirable to close the neck or seal it with a sealant so that moisture does not get inside.
   A garland inside a bottle is a stylish solution for decorative lighting.
2. If the neck of the bottle is wide enough to insert a light bulb inside, you can use it as a lamp. The main thing here is to think about how to fix the cartridge in the upper part so that the elements hold securely.
3. You can use a bottle cutter or folk methods to separate the bottom. In this case, making a lamp from several blanks is not difficult. A piece of board or wooden beam is used as a base.

It is much more convenient to use glass jars, since the cartridge can be fixed directly in the lid, which will allow you to get a lamp in just 10 minutes. The main thing is to seal all the cracks around the perimeter with a weather-resistant sealant.

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Features of connecting homemade lanterns to the network

To ensure the safety of homemade equipment, you need to properly connect it to the network. Therefore, it is worth understanding this issue in detail in order to exclude any problems:

1. The cable must be laid over the air to the place where the lights are installed or underground. The second option is more difficult, but also safer, in this case the cable is laid in a polyethylene pipe at a depth of at least 100 cm, the wire is brought up in the corrugation.
   An example of laying a cable in the ground.
2. If the lamp is hung at a high height, then you will have to make a lamppost with your own hands. It is most convenient to use a pipe, since it is more convenient to pull the cable up inside it, you can buy a ready-made forged version. And the easiest way is to use a wooden beam or a log, but in this case it is better to bring the wire through the air.
   Homemade base for a street lamp.
3. To connect the luminaire to the wiring, only sealed pads and terminals are used. With their help, you can connect wires and protect this place from moisture, you can’t twist and wrap them with electrical tape.

Video: 3 lamps made by hand from materials such as chain-link mesh, metal chain, etc.

With your own hands, it is easy to make a variety of lanterns that can be placed on the street, under awnings or in gazebos. It is best to use LED lamps in lamps, as they do not heat up during operation, consume little electricity and last a long time.