Homemade lamp in the loft style - detailed instructions for making

Such an interior item as a loft chandelier will be needed to illuminate the room in the appropriate style. Turning on your imagination and armed with not the rarest and most expensive materials, you can make with your own hands not only a pendant lamp, but also a floor or table lamp, a wall sconce. Loft-style lighting rules, types of lanterns, the nuances of their location in rooms, as well as a few step-by-step instructions for making at home - the article will tell about all this.

Basic rules for backlighting in loft style

Lighting a loft-style room implies a number of important requirements:

1. Fixtures should consist of large, rather rough parts.
2. The lamps themselves should have clear geometric shapes, be noticeable, catchy.
3. Excessive decorativeness, softness of colors is useless.
4. Lighting - only diffused. The main light is given by a ceiling chandelier, additional - lamps throughout the room.
5. With high ceilings, it is advised to mount a chandelier with the ability to adjust the height. It is practical and, moreover, corresponds to the design of industrial premises. For suspension use chains, ropes, cables.

Smooth lines and strict forms are a feature of loft lamps.

Types of fixtures

Chandelier

Unique design design.

In the room under the loft, the task of pendant lamps is not only the main light. They help to accent certain areas. The role of a chandelier is often played by a metal or wooden bar into which cartridges are mounted.

Sconce

The original wall lamp in the form of a crane.

Option number 1 for wall lamps in the interior of the loft - the ability to rotate and tilt. Due to this sconce, the area is accentuated with light of different intensity. Wall lights are installed with hanging hooks or chains.

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Floor lamp

Wooden ceiling and metal pipes as the basis for a floor lamp.

In the design of a floor lamp for a loft, you should separately pay attention to the base. These can be curved metal pipes or wooden legs, on which valves are already installed and a cartridge with a lampshade is mounted. Loft table lamps can be placed both in the bedroom and on the table or floor in other rooms. The floor lamp must maintain the same style as the table lamp. For them, it is worth choosing lamps of small and medium power.

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Shade

Imitation street lamp.

For some loft-style lamps, a lampshade is of great importance. Popular options are street lamp styling, retro, vintage.

With the help of paints and other additional design elements, the structures are given an artificial “brutality”: scuffs, roughness, rust, etc.

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The nuances of choosing lamps for different rooms

Living room and hallway

In the room under the loft, the main design emphasis should be placed on the hallway and living room area. This is the first place that an incoming person sees, and the design concept should immediately become clear to him.

There is no need to separate the hallway and living room with partitions. Separate zones are created just with the help of lamps. For the hallway, there is no need for too bright light, so a lantern with a couple of light bulbs is enough. Styling under a street lamp will look.

For living room all key requirements for lighting a loft room are provided. There should be a main chandelier fixed to the ceiling with a height-adjustable hanger. It is complemented by lamps on the walls, tables, on the floor.

Multi-level lighting is a must for a loft living room.

Bedroom

Strict adherence to even, clear forms, characteristic of loft design, can be slightly sacrificed in the bedroom or nursery. Here it would be appropriate to add parts from fabric, textiles. Floor lamps and wall sconces are made strict, but minimalistic, without frills. A good solution is to combine loft and retro styles.

Lamps in the loft bedroom.

Kitchen

Unlike the bedroom, in the kitchen it is worth abandoning the fabric inserts in the design of the lamps. Plastic is also not recommended. A metal or wooden base is suitable. The area near the dining table should be well lit by the main chandelier. For the rest of the zones, wall sconces are used, as well as built-in lights built into the furniture.

One of the "chips" of the loft style is brickwork, in addition to the living room, it will organically fit into the design of the kitchen.

Materials and colors of lamps

The main thing. Simple materials are used for loft lanterns. Additional decor, chemical treatment - this should be done only as a last resort. Even an ordinary lattice found in scrap metal - a seemingly unnecessary piece of iron - will become an original part of the lamp in this form.

Actually, metals are the main material for making do-it-yourself lamps in the loft style. This is the basis, the base. Other important materials are:

• wood with a minimum of processing;
• glass;
• ropes, cables;
• stainless steel;
• details of old lamps, in particular, shades.

Often used parts made of plastic. This material has many advantages:

• ease of work;
• no thread is needed for fastening - clamping rings and nuts are enough;
• reliable electrical insulation.

In the context of colors, one should also strive for naturalness and restraint.

The colors of the frame should be cold, discreet.

Tubes and connections made of metals can be additionally painted with special paints to give a reliable look. First of all, we are talking about the colors golden and metallic.

Bright colors can also be used. But there is a rule. Only one element of the lamp is decorated with this color.For all other parts, completely raw materials are used in discreet colors to give contrast.

The main stages of manufacture

Creating a lantern with a loft design consists of the following basic steps:

1. Making holes for cartridges in the base.
2. Fixing the base to the ceiling or wall.
3. Connection of bent parts with the help of adapters, sealing rings.
4. Installation of valves, other functional and decorative details.
5. Supply of electricity to the cartridges.
6. Screwing in light bulbs.
7. Plafond installation.

It will be useful to read: Tips for lighting in the loft style.

Step-by-step schemes for performing different types of lanterns in the loft style

Brass tube hanger

To make such a lamp, you will need 5 short and longer tubes made of brass or copper, the same number of hinges, pear-shaped lamps and cartridges for them.

1. Run wires to each cartridge.
2. Pull wires through brass tubes. Short tubes must be connected to long ones by means of hinges.
3. Screw the tube onto the cartridge.
4. The legs of the future lamp are screwed into the fittings. Once again, do the wiring, isolate the wires.
5. Pull the cable through the main tube that serves as the base for the chandelier.
6. Attach the lamp securely to the ceiling.
7. The last step is to screw in the bulbs.

Get a suspension of this kind.

Polymer pipe lamp

To make another original loft-style lamp with your own hands, you will need polymer water pipes. The algorithm is this:

1. Turn on your imagination or use samples from the Internet to create a project for a future lantern. Here is an example of a lamp-tree with cartridges-branches. It will need 12 rounds and the same number of lamps.
2. Connect the cartridges together.
3. Paint the frame. It is best to use gold or silver paint. The work is done on newspapers. If one layer of paint is not enough, after drying, you can apply a second one.
4. The chandelier is mounted on the ceiling, and at the end the lamps are twisted.

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Industrial style chandelier

The main element for such a lamp is a ceiling with a grille.

Chandelier with lattice in industrial style.

In the role of it, you can use not only a purchased casing, but something from kitchen appliances or, for example, a grate from a car air filter. These lamps are usually hung on the wall as a sconce or placed on the table and floor as a floor lamp.

It is best to use ceramic cartridges. An electrician is first brought to them, and then, with the help of a clamping ring, a lattice housing is attached.

Rod lamps

There are different options for using the rod in lamps for a loft. Here is a diagram of the manufacture of one of these lamps:

1. Mount 2 brackets in the wall, install a metal bar between them, empty inside.
2. Drill holes in the rod for the lamps.
3. Lay wiring on the wall. Bring the end of the wire to the brackets.
4. Place the wires connected to the common network cable into the holes in the rod.
5. Install cartridges at the ends of the wires, then screw in the bulbs.

Lantern made of plastic pipes

In some models of pendant lamps, a plastic pipe plays the role of a rod. It is easy to cut holes for cartridges in it, and threading is not needed to screw them in - clamping rings help. A plastic rod weighs much less than a metal one, so it can be suspended from the ceiling.

In addition, plastic pipes are connected to each other by couplings. This allows you to create a real pipeline lantern, sinuous and impressive.

Such a lamp can be decorated with counters - this will give authenticity. Lamps are better to choose pear-shaped. And the paints of metallic colors will create the effect of real iron pipes.