How to make a fairy garden: a master class on making garden lamps

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 the night lighting, you can see the hidden forms of the countryside. 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 thing - for lighting paths and outlines of buildings.

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

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How to do it yourself

Light fixtures can be bought, but this will limit the creativity of your garden. Self-production of illumination of a suburban area will allow you to embody unusual solutions and save money. You can make do-it-yourself lanterns from scrap materials. The design of the lamps will allow you to 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 waste cans that have a corrugated surface. Bottles should have a wide neck. Considering the inconvenience of connecting glass containers with conventional sockets for electric lamps, let's take candles as a light source. Now we can start making:

1. Prepare cans of the same shape with wire fasteners at the top.
2. It is necessary to choose a body from any material to which the cans will be attached. If the cans are suspended from building elements or from trees, then the body will not be needed.
3. Fill the bottom of the cans with stone chips to keep the candles stable. Then install the candles.
4. Attach the cans to the body and place 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 lanterns that are also hung in selected places. Or you can cut the bottom straight, then make a flat bottom of the desired diameter. Place a lighted candle on the bottom, cover with a glass case, and hang. Another original method, which has long been used in villages, involves pouring kerosene into a bottle. You need to lower the cord through the hole in the metal plug and light it.

From the cuts of a log

Wood is a harmonious material for decorating a garden plot. Consider the options for making various lamps.

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

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

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

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

CDs

Using discs will not only decorate the garden, but also put things in order in the house by removing unnecessary household items. With this material, the luminaire will have different properties. It will allow you to provide a romantic setting with a small amount of light or illuminate selected places with an increase in the luminous flux due to iridescent surfaces. For the manufacture of such lamps, you must:

1. Make cuts along the edges of several discs in such a way 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 lamp, install the lamp holder in the central disc, having previously drilled the corresponding hole.
4. Glue all the groove joints with glue, assemble the structure.

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

Old utensils

A good method of disposing of unnecessary kitchen utensils is to recycle them. An old jug or saucepan can become a light fixture. This requires:

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

Plastic

The number of plastic containers is taking up more and more space. You need to either throw it away or use it for your own benefit:

1. Trim the bottom of the plastic bottle. Cut out the petals and spread them in different directions. Lead a wire with a cartridge through the neck, which we fasten to the bottle using a wooden frame.
2. Plastic cups will be a great garden decoration if you place small bulbs at the 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 ready-made lamp. And by installing a socket with a lamp inside, we get an exotic lantern for hanging in the garden.

The same tangle is made by wrapping a hollow wooden or metal frame with a thick thread. It may have small edges inherent in the used skeleton. 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-cardboard lampshades is used when decorating celebrations. Making them and installing them in the garden can cheer you up. This is due to the fact that the number of shapes, colors and styles of decoration with homemade paper and cardboard lamps has no boundaries.It is important to securely attach the lampshade to the base of the lantern, and avoid touching hot incandescent bulbs to paper surfaces. The base of the luminaire is made of both wood and metal.

Cans

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

1. Align the cylindrical surface of the cans and remove the top cap.
2. Using a hammer and nails or an old chisel, knock out the same patterns on the round surface of the cans.
3. We will install a light bulb in each of the cans.
4. We will hang it at a short distance from each other, turn it on.

The result is a stylish lamp made from tin cans.

To illuminate the night garden, a different organization of performance techniques is used. This can be hanging from trees, attaching to the pillars of a gazebo, 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. Creative decoration of the night garden with lighting fixtures will make it exotic and fabulous.