Put on a warm summer evening – what’s better than sitting in the garden after a long day at work and sipping something cool? Rattan sofas, large colored cushions and the right lighting! If you are looking for ideas to copy, you are in the right place. Make DIY lanterns for the garden with us and in a few steps you will create the ideal atmosphere to relax.
The lanterns they are perfect for decorating yours garden: light suffused, romantic is suggestive for this reason in recent years they have been gaining more and more ground. We offer you one solution alternative and all to be copied: make lanterns with us do-it-yourself for the garden. In plastic, paper, glass, wood: many materials and resources you can draw on to dress your garden with new light. And all in few and simple moves. Seeing is believing.
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DIY lanterns for the garden: how I light up the summer
But before we start, let’s do it clarity. What exactly is meant by lantern? It is that apparatus that guards inside one flame protecting it with a glass or other from the wind. Romantic idea of shedding light both to hang and to put on a countertop, a coffee table will be perfect. There are really many types on the market but let’s see how to make them with DIY. To you 3 projects +1 for DIY lanterns for the garden.
1. Card
Perhaps the simplest and fastest idea in the realization is just this! To make your own DIY lantern you will need:
• bags paper;
• tealights (the classic candles with aluminum base).
Just put one inside and your lantern is ready: beautiful already this way but if you want you can cut out the bag creating romantic ones games of light that will also be projected on the wall.
2. Glass jars
A good result is obtained with glass jars. It is the most idea popular in fact for which he begins to keep the empty jars of marmalade and pickles! If you want to give it a touch Shabby chic your lantern will just need a little raffia, jute ribbons, hearts or other decorations in wood, wool, twine and candles: even the LED ones can go well with these materials, perhaps they are preferable.
This is just an idea you can customize the jar in a thousand ways: with a piece of newspaper and tape, with slides to glue like a mosaic, with fabric and so on. Even the jars of tin they can live a second life and the result is very interesting: try to puncture the surface by drawing what you like best. The reflection will surprise you!
You may be interested in: 10 interior design ideas with rattan furniture
3. Wood
Making wooden lanterns is more easy than you can believe. You don’t need too much manual skill but certainly a lot fantasy. What do you need? A wooden base of the size you prefer evaluates above all according to the place where you are going to place it.
Then we will need gods laths always in wood, perhaps of different heights to create a particular aesthetic game, finally, a simple one jar to place inside even jars of yogurt or homogenized for your creative recycling will conclude your lantern. If you are afraid of cutting yourself using a chisel, hacksaw or other tools, ask your carpenter: you can also choose the type of wood you prefer!
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Idea +1: child’s play
If you want to make some lanterns do-it-yourself and you have a passion fororigami how about combining the two passions? Colored cards, a pair of scissors and a lot of imagination are enough, the result? Certainly impressive!
You can create many different shapes: animals, flowers, leaves for a unique result both of day, thanks to the effect three-dimensional created from folded and carved cardboard, both of night, thanks to the light that is able to filter through the notches. Have fun creating aatmosphere magical!
Lanterns: where to place them
We have seen how to make the lanterns but we see how to use these furnishing accessories wisely. Three le options what do you have:
1.you can put them on a table to create your own corner or illuminate something special;
2.you can create a path in the garden by placing them in a flower bed for example;
3.you can keep them suspended in the air: perhaps the most romantic option to be made with twine, wire or rope.
Choose the way you prefer and light up yours evenings for two or in the company of friends.
DIY lanterns for the garden: pictures and photos
If you like the idea of creating small works of art for your garden, get to work and a simple evening can be transformed into something magical. Look in the gallery for other photographic ideas and remember: a little imagination is enough to create beautiful DIY lanterns!
Put on a warm summer evening – what’s better than sitting in the garden after a long day at work and sipping something cool? Rattan sofas, large colored cushions and the right lighting! If you are looking for ideas to copy, you are in the right place. Make DIY lanterns for the garden with us and in a few steps you will create the ideal atmosphere to relax.
The lanterns they are perfect for decorating yours garden: light suffused, romantic is suggestive for this reason in recent years they have been gaining more and more ground. We offer you one solution alternative and all to be copied: make lanterns with us do-it-yourself for the garden. In plastic, paper, glass, wood: many materials and resources you can draw on to dress your garden with new light. And all in few and simple moves. Seeing is believing.
Read also: Narrow and long kitchen? Here are the tips to make no mistake
DIY lanterns for the garden: how I light up the summer
But before we start, let’s do it clarity. What exactly is meant by lantern? It is that apparatus that guards inside one flame protecting it with a glass or other from the wind. Romantic idea of shedding light both to hang and to put on a countertop, a coffee table will be perfect. There are really many types on the market but let’s see how to make them with DIY. To you 3 projects +1 for DIY lanterns for the garden.
1. Card
Perhaps the simplest and fastest idea in the realization is just this! To make your own DIY lantern you will need:
• bags paper;
• tealights (the classic candles with aluminum base).
Just put one inside and your lantern is ready: beautiful already this way but if you want you can cut out the bag creating romantic ones games of light that will also be projected on the wall.
2. Glass jars
A good result is obtained with glass jars. It is the most idea popular in fact for which he begins to keep the empty jars of marmalade and pickles! If you want to give it a touch Shabby chic your lantern will just need a little raffia, jute ribbons, hearts or other decorations in wood, wool, twine and candles: even the LED ones can go well with these materials, perhaps they are preferable.
This is just an idea you can customize the jar in a thousand ways: with a piece of newspaper and tape, with slides to glue like a mosaic, with fabric and so on. Even the jars of tin they can live a second life and the result is very interesting: try to puncture the surface by drawing what you like best. The reflection will surprise you!
You may be interested in: 10 interior design ideas with rattan furniture
3. Wood
Making wooden lanterns is more easy than you can believe. You don’t need too much manual skill but certainly a lot fantasy. What do you need? A wooden base of the size you prefer evaluates above all according to the place where you are going to place it.
Then we will need gods laths always in wood, perhaps of different heights to create a particular aesthetic game, finally, a simple one jar to place inside even jars of yogurt or homogenized for your creative recycling will conclude your lantern. If you are afraid of cutting yourself using a chisel, hacksaw or other tools, ask your carpenter: you can also choose the type of wood you prefer!
Do you want design advice on how to furnish? Join the group
Idea +1: child’s play
If you want to make some lanterns do-it-yourself and you have a passion fororigami how about combining the two passions? Colored cards, a pair of scissors and a lot of imagination are enough, the result? Certainly impressive!
You can create many different shapes: animals, flowers, leaves for a unique result both of day, thanks to the effect three-dimensional created from folded and carved cardboard, both of night, thanks to the light that is able to filter through the notches. Have fun creating aatmosphere magical!
Lanterns: where to place them
We have seen how to make the lanterns but we see how to use these furnishing accessories wisely. Three le options what do you have:
1.you can put them on a table to create your own corner or illuminate something special;
2.you can create a path in the garden by placing them in a flower bed for example;
3.you can keep them suspended in the air: perhaps the most romantic option to be made with twine, wire or rope.
Choose the way you prefer and light up yours evenings for two or in the company of friends.
DIY lanterns for the garden: pictures and photos
If you like the idea of creating small works of art for your garden, get to work and a simple evening can be transformed into something magical. Look in the gallery for other photographic ideas and remember: a little imagination is enough to create beautiful DIY lanterns!
