How to make a lamp from a bottle? Manufacturing procedure

Do not rush to empty empty glass and plastic bottles. Of these, you can make 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;
• Light bulb;
• Rubber stopper-stabilizer;
• screwdriver.

The order of the robots to create a table lamp-lamp:

1. Cut the rubber stopper so that it fits easily in the neck of the bottle (picture 1).
2. To the plug, screw the chuck and connect the wires (pictures 2 and 3).
3. Make an arch-fastening, to which the lampshade will be attached and screw the light bulb (picture 4).
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):

1. Take a glass bottle and make a round hole below, closer to the bottom, using a drill on the glass.
2. Make a hole in the plug and thread the electrical cord into it, and thread the thread on one side.
3. Screw on the decorative chuck.
4. Place the cord in a bottle and close the neck with a cork.
5. Pull the cord out of the hole in the bottle outward.
6. Screw in the light bulb.

The original lamp from the bottle is ready!

Suspended light from bottles - disconnect the bottom

Such chandeliers will perfectly fit into 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:

1. Take a woolen thread, a solvent, a bottle, a lighter, a sandpaper, a basin with ice water.
2. Cut a long piece of thread and soak it in a solvent.
3. Around the bottle, on the place you want to cut, tie several circles of woolen thread.
4. Take the bottle so that it is parallel to the ground and set the thread on fire.
5. The bottle needs to be gently scrolled around the axis for several minutes.
6. When the fire goes out, immediately lower the bottle into the icy water.
7. Carefully detach the bottom.
8. 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:

1. Take the cartridge or the stopper and insert it into the neck.
2. Connect the cord.
3. Screw in the light bulb.
4. Hang the lamp from the bottle to the ceiling with a hook or make a special mount.

Thus, you can make lampshades instead of the usual 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 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 inside the bottle you can pour coffee beans, colorful salt, seasonings, cereals, pasta and so on. Such a lamp will not only fulfill a direct purpose, but 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 the hanging lamp, it is not necessary to fix the cartridge or the stopper in the neck of the 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 the 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:

1. Choose the right glass bottle, New Year's garland, sandpaper and drill.
2. Clean the bottle of all labels.
3. Lock the bottle and drill a neatly small hole underneath. 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.
4. Use a sandpaper to smooth out the edges of the holes so that you do not get hurt later.
5. Push the garland inside the bottle through the drilled hole. You need to put the end where there is no plug and mode switch. Try to put the garland so that it spins inside the bottle.

All is ready! If you want, you can somehow zadkorirovat bottle. For example, draw a drawing, 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 from plastic bottles is unsafe and has a non-aesthetic appearance. In urban conditions, this is indeed the case. But it is ideal for gazebo in the country.

Master class: how to make a lamp from a plastic bottle with your own hands:

1. Prepare a cartridge with an electrical cord and a switch, a light bulb (you need a LED light, a housekeeper or a regular but small power), a five-liter water tank, an adhesive gun, pliers, plastic spoons, a screwdriver, a construction knife.
2. With pliers, bite off the handle completely from the spoon to leave one oval piece.
3. Cut off the bottom with a construction knife.
4. Connect the adhesive gun to the network.
5. When it's ready, start sticking the spoons. The first row goes from below, and all subsequent ones are superimposed on the previous ones.
6. Okleyte, therefore, all the baklag.
7. Glue the spoons together, folding them one into one to make a ring.
8. Secure the cartridge and the cord in the neck of the bottle.
9. Glue a ring of spoons on the neck.
10. Screw in the light bulb.

The lampshade is ready! If desired, you can paint it. That the paint has laid down in regular intervals, it is better to paint each spoon separately, and then to cover with it the baklag. 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.