Homemade chandelier with your own hands. Video
You can make a beautiful and unusual chandelier, which is ideal in design for your interior, with your own hands. Even if you have a minimum of funds, but be creative in the design of your home, the result may be an original work.
Chandelier made of lace napkins
For this chandelier, both old openwork napkins, which have long been stored somewhere on a shelf, and new ones, knitted specifically for the manufacture of a lampshade, are suitable. They can have a variety of patterns and colors of threads. Just try not to combine napkins made of threads that differ greatly in thickness in one product. Your lampshade will look a little skewed, although it can add some charm to some interiors.
To make a homemade chandelier, you will need: – openwork napkins made of threads; – PVA glue; – a balloon; – petroleum jelly; – newspapers; – a large bowl.
Get a balloon that, when inflated, will match the size of the future lampshade. Fill it with air and tie it tightly with a string. Draw a pen around the place through which the cartridge will then be inserted, it will not be necessary to go onto it with napkins. Coat the ball with Vaseline.
Hang the base under the chandelier so that it is in the air and does not come into contact with anything. It is convenient to do this on an unfolded ladder. Line the floor under the ball with newspaper or plastic wrap so the glue can drip onto it.
Pour PVA glue into a bowl. If it is very thick, dilute it with a little water. Dip napkins in there and soak them well with glue. Then squeeze them out one at a time and apply to the ball, starting at the top. Glue the napkins a little overlap. When you reach the middle of the ball, leave the structure to dry. Otherwise, the openwork shell will slide under its weight. Add napkins and let the lampshade dry for a couple of days.
Instead of PVA glue, you can use wallpaper glue or weld starch paste
Pierce the balloon with a needle and pull it out through the chuck hole. Outside, the lampshade can be additionally decorated with beads, pearls or rhinestones. Insert a socket with an energy-saving lamp into it and your chandelier is ready.
To decorate the wire, sew a cover made of a suitable fabric onto it so that it is twice the length of the cord. Then you will have a beautiful assembly.
Needlewomen, who have accumulated a decent amount of various scraps, braids and ribbons, can make a chandelier in a bright boho style with their own hands.
You will need: – wire; – wire cutters; – pliers; – bright rags of fabric; – scissors; – adhesive hard non-woven fabric; – iron.
For the base of the lampshade, take either an old frame or hoop, or twist it yourself from steel wire. Bend two circles of different diameters out of metal. Connect them together with wire or ribbons so that the large circle is on top and the smaller one hangs down.
Wrap both metal blanks over the edge with braid or narrow strips of fabric, secure with transparent glue so that they do not unwind.
Spread the large colored patch face down, spread the double-sided interlining on top and then the fabric again, only this time with the front side out. Iron gently to avoid gathering. After cooling, cut the resulting rigid workpiece into rectangles about 15×7 cm in size.
Staple holes along the top narrow side of the rectangles. Thread the ribbons through them and tie these blanks to the metal base of the lampshade.