A table lamp or a bottle chandelier is no longer a fancy innovation, but a typical piece of apartment design. The advantage of such lamps is that they are easy to make with your own hands. The article introduces techniques and ideas for making lamps from different types of bottles.

Pros and cons of homemade lanterns

A do-it-yourself bottle lamp has several advantages over purchased counterparts:

It's downright cheaper.
Raw materials that must be disposed of are used and receive a “second life”.
Making a lamp is not as difficult as it seems. All you have to do is follow the instructions.
It is their own vision of design that is realized, in all details, instead of searching for the right lamp in stores.

Disadvantages are also not a discovery:

Glass should be handled with extreme care.
Cutting yourself with plastic is also much easier than you think.
Any deviation from the manufacturing algorithm can lead to the fact that the lamp simply does not turn on.

Types of bottle lamps

On the table

Most often, the bottle plays the role of a table lamp. It means not only a floor lamp with a lampshade. Sometimes the capacity itself is enough. If you put a garland inside, led strip or something like that, you get a finished table lamp. The main difficulty in manufacturing is to normally make a hole for the wire.

Here the bottle serves as the basis for the lampshade.

On the floor

For floor lamps, plastic is usually used. It can be, for example, petals from a bottle that form a lampshade. In addition, fragments of plastic containers themselves can become the "legs" of the future lantern.

To the ceiling

A wine bottle chandelier is an original and stylish solution for any room design. Moreover, the capacity can be not one, but several. The main thing is to hang the lamp securely to minimize the risk of glass falling.

On the wall

It will be extremely difficult to make a sconce completely, so it is better to get by with a lampshade from an ordinary glass bottle. The traditional green color of the glass is well suited. The plafond is installed on the frame from the old sconce.

Outside

Beautiful lamps for the street.

Do-it-yourself lamps made from bottles for the street, unlike store counterparts, are more resistant to the sun and constant precipitation. A good life hack is to equip such a lamp not with a cartridge with a lamp, but with an LED flashlight. It will be charged by the sun and turn on automatically at nightfall.

Advice. It is better not to paint bottle lights for the street, and if you do, then with a material with high resistance to moisture and the sun.

Portable

It doesn't require electricity. The light source is a flashlight or candle flame. A portable bottle lamp will be a good night light for the bedroom and nursery.

What you need

The main tools at hand for making a bottle lamp are:

the containers themselves;
sandpaper;
lamp with cartridge;
glass cutter;
screwdriver;
drill;
eye and hand protection: goggles, gloves, etc.

Glass or plastic

For handmade lamps, both glass blanks and plastic ones are suitable. The advantages of plastic are obvious: it is more difficult for them to get hurt, it is easy to cut and fix. Usually plastic bottles are used to make a table or floor lamp, but chandeliers from them are not uncommon. However, glass is preferred more often.

7 interesting bottle lamps: step by step instructions

Desktop

The scheme for making a table lamp from a glass bottle is as follows:

Determine a place on the workpiece for the wire, mark it with a plaster or other adhesive material.
Put the bottle lying down, make a hole with a diamond drill.
After that, the container should be held in water (preferably warm) to remove all residues of the label, dirt.
Gently pull the wire through the hole to the neck, and there bring it to the cartridge.
Attach the lampshade securely to the neck. That's it, the table lamp from the bottle is ready.

Loft style

There are many options for industrial-style bottle lamps. You can, for example, hang a rectangular frame divided into many sections, and in each of them place a bottle with a lamp inside, one color or different.

The same containers can be attached to the platform.

Another option is to install on the structure from pipes plafond in the form of a bottle. The main thing is that the same adapter should be selected for its thread.

Chandelier

An original and stylish wine bottle pendant chandelier is easy to make - just follow the algorithm of actions.

Soak the workpiece in water, remove fragments of labels, then wipe dry thoroughly.
Use a glass cutter to make a cut line on the bottle. The incision is made across. Work must be carried out without haste, so as not to disturb the evenness of the line.
In order for the unnecessary half to disappear, the workpiece should be placed under water and alternate between hot and cold temperatures. The bottle will separate clearly along the line.
To give additional smoothness and evenness to the cut, its edges are treated with sandpaper.
A wire is pulled into the neck, connected to the cartridge.

Floor

One of the interesting options for a floor lamp is the "palm tree". To do this, you need a lot of brown plastic bottles. Each is cut into several pieces, and “teeth” are cut out on the sides to make it look like a palm tree trunk. Plastic blanks are put on a high base fixed on the floor. "Foliage" will be fragments of green plastic bottles. Under the "foliage" LED flashlights are attached, placed in small plastic containers.

"Palm" looks like this.

Plastic hanger

Not only from glass, you can make an unusual chandelier with your own hands.A 5 liter plastic bottle is also suitable for this. Everything is done like this:

Use a utility knife to cut off the bottom in a straight line.
You will need a couple of dozen plastic spoons. It will be necessary to cut off the convex parts from them and glue them to the plastic blank around the circumference, from the neck to the bottom.
You can clog the neck with a part with a suspension from an old lamp.
Inside the bottle is a wire with a cartridge and a light bulb.

Asian style bra

A damaged sconce can be replaced with a completely new one, made by hand. One of these options would be a Chinese wall lantern. It will organically look in a room with an Asian design.

Take a plastic bottle up to 2 liters.
Along the entire circumference from the neck to the bottom, make vertical cuts in it to make “noodles”. The very bottom and throat do not need to be cut off.
Through the cuts, you need to connect the bottom with the neck with wire. Due to this, the bottle becomes short and rounded, turning into a lampshade of a flashlight.
In the same way - through the incisions - a cartridge is inserted, and a wire is connected to it through the neck.
A Chinese lantern is attached to the wall.

Plastic lampshade for a Chinese lantern.

Street

Ordinary candles can become the basis for a street lamp. By covering them with a colored glass bottle with a cut bottom and a corked neck, you can protect the fire from moisture. If we talk about a more creative option, it will need a whole bottle with dark glass. You need to make a hole in it more than half the height, and lay it sideways in a beautiful container with sand. The sand itself should be partly inside the tank, partly around it.By adding various decorative elements of the marine environment (shells, corals, artificial algae) inside the bottle and installing a lamp or an LED flashlight, you can get a truly original outdoor lamp.

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