Garden lamps: how to make unusual lighting from improvised materials, photo ideas and a manufacturing guide

Lighting options

In order for the garden to become attractive not only during the day, but also in the evening, it must be decorated with lamps. Thanks to night lighting, hidden forms of the country landscape can be seen. Installing lanterns will allow you to comfortably move around the garden at dusk.

The backlight has a different functional purpose:

• decorative;
• security – for the entire territory;
• the main one is for lighting paths and contours of buildings.

The luminaires used can be both suspended and with rigid side fasteners. Depending on the type of fastening, they can be placed on posts or hung in any convenient place, including on trees. Modern LED strips are attached to various surfaces using clips or special glue.

Video “How to make a garden lamp with your own hands”

In this video, a specialist will demonstrate a scheme for the manufacture of a solar-powered garden lamp.

How to Make Your Own Hands

Lamps can be bought, but this will limit the creativity in decorating the garden. Self-production of backlighting of a suburban area will allow you to implement unusual solutions and save money. You can make lanterns with your own hands from improvised materials. The design of the lamps will emphasize the style inherent in the buildings installed in the garden.

From glass jars and bottles

Such lamps can be made from any glassware. It is best to use old jars that have a corrugated surface. Bottles must have a wide neck. Considering the inconvenience of connecting glass containers with conventional lamp sockets, we will take candles as a light source. Now we can start making:

1. Prepare jars of the same shape by equipping them with wire fasteners at the top.
2. It is necessary to choose a case from any material to which the cans will be attached. If the cans are suspended from building elements or trees, then the case will not be needed.
3. Fill the bottom of the jars with stone chips to stabilize the candles. Then install candles.
4. Attach the jars to the body and install the lamp in the desired location.

At dusk, we can light candles and enjoy the finished product. If the dishes have a narrow neck, then using the LED strip, you can make lights that are also hung in selected places. Or you can even cut off the bottom, then make a flat bottom of the desired diameter. Place a lit candle on the bottom, cover with a glass case, hang. Another original method that has long been used in villages involves pouring kerosene into a bottle. Through the hole in the metal plug, you need to lower the cord and light it.

From log cuts

A harmonious material for decorating a garden plot is wood. Consider the options for manufacturing various fixtures.

Using a long transparent tube made of plexiglass or other material, we make a lantern in the form of a bookcase:

1. Cut the log into rings.
2. Make holes in the middle of the rings the same size as the diameter of the tube.
3. Using glue, fix the rings at the same distance along the entire length of the tube.
4. Insert an LED strip or a fluorescent lamp into the tube, connect.

Such a lamp is installed vertically or horizontally, depending on the needs of exterior design. Individual rings are laid out along the paths, then candles are placed in them. Thus, we get the illumination of concrete garden paths.

The lantern is made from a long log, having previously selected the interior space for installing a lamp or candle. In the outer part of the log, it is necessary to perform drilling or longitudinal cuts.

CDs

Using disks will not only decorate the garden, but also clean up the house by removing unnecessary household items. With the help of such material, the lamp will have different properties. It will allow you to provide a romantic atmosphere with a small amount of light or illuminate selected places with an increase in light output due to iridescent surfaces. For the manufacture of such lamps you need:

1. Make cuts along the edges of several discs so that when connected, a corner of the discs is obtained.
2. Such cuts must be made on disks, the number of which will correspond to the planes of the future lantern. Assemble the desired polygonal shape.
3. Dismantle the luminaire, install the socket with the lamp in the central disk, having previously drilled the corresponding hole.
4. Apply glue to all groove joints, assemble the structure.

The lamp is ready. The cavity opposite the cartridge with the lamp will set the direction of the light flux, and if this space is sealed with a disc, the product will make the mood romantic, spreading thin rays of light in different directions.

old crockery

A good way to get rid of unnecessary kitchen utensils is to reuse them. An old jug or pot can become a lamp. For this you need:

1. Select an unused kitchen attribute.
2. Make a device for internal fastening of the cartridge.
3. In the form of the desired figures or slots, make cavities for light rays.
4. Install a lamp in the cottage kitchen so that the rays of its light and location perform a decorative function.

Plastic

The amount of plastic containers is taking up more and more space. It must either be thrown away or used for your own benefit:

1. Trim the bottom of the plastic bottle. Cut out the petals and spread them in different directions. Insert a wire with a cartridge through the neck, which we fasten to the bottle using a wooden frame.
2. Plastic cups will be an excellent garden decoration if you place small light bulbs on their bottom and hang them in the form of a garland.
3. PVC pipes, which are used for laying sewers, will be an excellent lampshade for a homemade lighting fixture.

Fancy balls

If you take a vine or thin branches, and twist it into a ball, then placing an LED strip on the outer surface, we get a finished lamp. And by installing a cartridge with a lamp inside, we get an exotic lantern for hanging in the garden.

The same ball is made by wrapping a hollow wooden or metal frame with a thick thread. It may have small edges inherent in the framework used. But we will place a cartridge with a light bulb or a tape on it as on a ball of branches.

Paper and cardboard

The use of paper and cardboard lampshades is used in the design of celebrations. Their manufacture and installation in the garden will be able to cheer you up. This is due to the fact that the number of shapes, colors and styles of design with homemade paper and cardboard lamps has no limits. It is important to securely fasten the lampshade to the base of the lantern, and avoid touching hot incandescent lamps to paper surfaces. The base of the lamp is made of both wood and metal.

Cans

Cans and beer cans with a creative approach become an original decoration of the night garden. For the manufacture of lamps from tin, you must:

1. Level the cylindrical surface of the jars and remove the top lid.
2. Using a hammer and nails or an old chisel, we will knock out the same patterns on the round surface of the cans.
3. Install a light bulb in each of the cans.
4. Let’s hang it at a short distance from each other, turn it on.

It turned out a stylish lamp made of tin cans.

To illuminate the night garden, a different organization of performance techniques is used. This can be hanging on trees, fastening to gazebo supports, or placing lamps on the ground near the foundation of the house.

Illumination of water structures located on the site will give the estate a Japanese style. The creative design of the night garden with lighting fixtures will make it exotic and fabulous.