Floor lamp with own hands

Interesting designer decor objects in the style of handmade are incredibly popular and in furniture stores are sold for decent money. Creating something like this is not only realistic, but exciting. Floor lamps can be made with your own hands from a throwback material, which is always found in the pantry, or natural elements.

How to make a lamp with your hands from a tripod?

Sometimes from old things from the closet you get excellent designer decor items. We suggest creating a stylish floor lamp from an old tripod from a telescope and a bucket. To work, you only need a tripod from the telescope, a new galvanized bucket, bolts with nuts and a construction for fixing the shade and lamp.

1. To work you will need the details, which can be purchased at any construction shop. Here we will use such a set for fixing the lamp shade and lamp.
2. Along the very tripod we lay a wire, which then will be connected with a lamp and a socket.
3. We wind the cord through the top of the tripod.
4. Next, the cream design for the bulb and lead the cord.
5. As a lampshade for the floor lamp, we will use the simplest galvanized economic bucket. The bottom in the future will be cut off and thereby get an almost finished floor lamp.
6. We suggest a little muffle of galvanizing. This is done with the aid of a toilet cleanser . You simply apply it and leave it in the sun until it dries completely.
7. To fix our lampshade, we will use fasteners for drainage systems from galvanized metal.
8. First, we drill a hole in the center of one of the fasteners. With it, we fix the lampshade on the lamp. Then we put the two fasteners strictly perpendicular to each other and fix the tape. We drill the holes in the straps and apply it to the lampshade. The entire structure is fixed with an electrical tape, and then with bolts.
9. As a result, it turned out that such a floor lamp with their own hands in an industrial style.

How to make a lamp with your own hands made of natural materials?

Create something artistic from snags is very simple, because nature itself has already done everything and it remains only to give a finished appearance to the workpiece. For production, you need a few snags, fasteners, a ready-made or self-made floor lamp. Also in a specialized store we purchase a design for wiring and fastening the bulb.

1. From several snags we'll make a tripod-base.
2. Before we make a base for the floor lamp, we collect it and temporarily fix it. If the design is confident and everything suits, you can proceed with the final fixation.
3. For driftwood, self-tapping screws are ideal for fastening.
4. In the electrical shop buy a set for attaching the lamp to the floor lamp. The design is standard and is sold in every specialized store.
5. To insert the cord into the tripod, drill a hole in it and pull it out from above. At the top, we insert a threaded connector for further fixing the lamp and floor lamp.
6. Then fix the construction for the paw. We screw everything and connect the wires.
7. As a result, you will get a practically finished floor lamp. Simply insert a light bulb into the base and check its operation with a switch.
8. To hide the cord, it is enough to hide it in one of the cracks in snags or veil in any other way.
9. As for the lampshade, you can afford everything here. If there is one ready from the old lamp, feel free to use it. If not, you can make a new one yourself.
10. Here you can create such stylish floor lamps yourself from improvised materials.