How to Make a Lamp Made From Trash

Glass Bottle Lamp

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  Wash and dry a bottle of your choice. Use a wine or champagne bottle for a classy look, or use the bottle of your favorite type of liquor to sit atop your home bar. Make sure the opening of your chosen bottle is large enough to fit a cork.

• 2

  Insert the cork of a cork lamp kit into the top opening of your bottle lamp. Push in until secure, letting the cord hang down the back of the lamp.

• 3

  Top with a complementary lampshade.

Pudding Cup Lampshade

• 4

  Find a drum lampshade in the size you desire.

• 5

  Accumulate many used pudding or yogurt cups from the same brand. Remove the labels and wash the cups, then let them dry.

• 6

  Take a single cup and use a thick needle to create a small hole in the lip. Repeat on the opposite side of the cup.

• 7

  Create a small hole in the very top of the lampshade fabric, approximately a centimeter from its upper edge. Open a jump ring and thread it through the hole in the lampshade and one of the holes on the pudding cup. Close the jump ring so that the pudding cup hangs from the lampshade with its open side facing the shade.

• 8

  Make two holes on opposite sides of another cup’s lip. Open a jump ring and thread it through either of the holes as well as the bottom hole of the previous cup. Close the jump ring and let the second cup hang beneath the first against the lamp shade, again with its opening facing the shade.

• 9

  Repeat to add more cups to the chain of pudding cups until you reach the bottom of the shade. Puncture a second hole about a centimeter from the bottom of the shade, directly beneath the initial lampshade hole. Thread an open jump ring through the bottom lampshade hole and the bottom hole of the last pudding cup to affix the chain of cups to the shade.

• 10

  Work clockwise around your lamp, adding cups in straight chains from top to bottom, until the lampshade is covered. Attach to any lamp in your home for a mod accent.