How to make a lamp using plastic bottle for decorating your house?

How to make a lamp using a plastic bottle for decorating your house?

My today’s post is being dedicated to arts and crafts with my creativity in sharing with you how we can make a unique lamp for your home. Believe me, it will not cost much for you as we will be using waste things normally those are not useful and we throw them in the dustbin. Our mood normally depends on upon the color of lights. In today’s busy world, when we are back to home, we always preferred to have soft light and the silent music is on and just relaxes for a couple of minutes doing nothing. This gives us our energy back for tomorrow.     

Well before we really start making the lamp; let’s see what all we need to gather? 

• Empty water bottle
• Glass pebbles with single or multi colors (Flat at one surface)
• Ceramic paste (will be available in market in 2 different packets that need to mix it together) 
• A bulb with electric wire.  

Some basic tools also we need to keep aside like a cutter, marker

Let’s begin to start making our unique lamp. 

Take an empty plastic bottle, cut out the dome shape so that you will have left with the cylindrical piece and this is what we will require. Take a mixed ceramic paste; please make sure this paste doesn’t stay good after 15 minutes and becomes dry and probably you will not able to make use of it. So don’t mix it in advance. Apply the ceramic paste at the open end of the bottle, as being seen in image 2. Now it’s a turn to fix the glass pebbles .How to fix the glass pebbles with a plastic bottle? Do we need any other things to fix it? No, the ceramic paste is good for us. Take few glass pebbles and make the border with ceramic paste as shown in image 3. We need to make sure that the spillover of the paste shouldn’t happen at the inner surface of glass pebbles; else it will restrict the light illumination or transparency. Let’s complete first row and then move on and complete fixing of all glass pebbles on the bottle surface. 

After fixing the pebbles, you will notice in between the surface of the bottle is open for light but we need to cover the entire surface. So, apply the ceramic paste wherever the transparency is there. Our aim is to have lights coming only through glass pebbles. Once we are done with this, we all are now set and just need to think how to attach the electric bulb into it. I found my way but you may have some better ways to fix bulb into it. What I did, I put the small hole at the bottom as shown in figure 6 and passes the wire from it.

Safety is of topmost important ,so I have used small PVC pipe to cover the electric wire and it helped me in keeping the lamp steady and straight once I put it with the ceiling.

Glass pebbles play a vital role in color shade of the light. The choice is with you which color you want and choose the glass pebbles colors accordingly.

Did you like this post? Is it easy to make? Please DIY.