Lamps from cans. Table lamps, lampshades and chandeliers. Have you ever thought of making them from soda cans? Here are ten examples of creative recycling that can inspire you to get your new lamps at no cost. To create the most original items, you will need to start storing numerous tabs on the cans (maybe a bar could keep them aside for you). The simpler models, on the other hand, can be obtained immediately, starting from a single empty can.
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Table lamps, lampshades and chandeliers. Have you ever thought about making them starting at tin cans some drinks? Here are ten examples of creative recycling that will inspire you to get your new ones lamps at no cost.
To create the most original items, you will need to start storing numerous tabs on the cans (maybe a bar could keep them aside for you). The simpler models, on the other hand, can be obtained immediately, starting from a single empty can.
1) Le Can Lamp by Francesco Sillitti
Here is an example of the lamps made using the soda cans by the desinger Francesco Sillitti. The goal of their creator is to give a new life to common objects. The cans have the characteristic of reflecting light and have therefore given him the opportunity to explore different ways of using their material, which for example can be cut, divided and reassembled to create lamps capable of giving life to light games always different.
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Pop Top Lamp Shade
This table lamp was made after having collected and stored numerous tabs of the cans and after having repainted them in order to create an effect rainbow. The tabs, joined to each other, made it possible to give shape to an original lampshade to embellish a normal lamp. THU the online tutorial to learn how to build it.
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Vintage Beer Can Lamp
In the case of Vintage Beer Can Lamp the realization of the lamp, type abat-jour, was made possible by the recovery of both the cans and their tabs. The lampshade was created with the tabs of the cans, while the base of the lamp consists of one beer can from the look vintage, which could be recovered in a flea market or thanks to a collector.
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Home Light Lamp
Thanks to the images of this project you will understand how build step by step a lampshade for yours chandelier. You will need to collect a good number of can tabs in order to start making it and get yourself a suitable chandelier base to fix to the ceiling.
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5) Tin Can Lamp
Here is a lamp made by a tin box quite large, but some soda cans may also be suitable, for a smaller version. The tin container was pierced with a drill and transformed into the shade of a table lamp. The holes create very suggestive lighting effects on the walls.
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Time recycling
Here is the perfect lamp for the bedside table proposed by Time recycling and made from the recovery of old cans. By cutting out cans of various drinks, the parts necessary to create the lampshade were obtained. Riciclo Time is committed to recovering objects and materials that apparently have exhausted their function ea give new life to things that seem to be thrown away.
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Hanging lanterns
Here are the aluminum lanterns made from cans and proposed by ArteBlog. From a single simple can of soda you can get an unusual one lantern. Do not detach the tab: you will need it to hang the lanterns, for example thanks to a wire. Inside them you will insert a candle or a candle.
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Table lanterns
With a procedure similar to that of the previous project, you can get small ones table lanterns. In this case the side of the can with the tab will remain on the bottom. You can repaint the cans in order to obtain a very elegant effect, for example by using colors such as gold or silver.
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Pop Pendant Light
This wonderful spherical chandelier is a creation of the Brazilian designer Mauricio Affonso. It was made using hundreds of can tabs some drinks. Pop Pendant Light was born from the idea of transforming a waste material, with a very short life, into a precious and long-lasting object. It is an example of how creative recycling, if carried out in a workmanlike manner, can lead to the creation of works of excellence.
photo source: mauricioaffonso.com
Vintage Kitsch Beer Can Lamp
This lamp was made using a base as a base beer can. It can be purchased on Etsy, but it's very easy to make it yourself. In fact, it will be enough to drill the can at the top and bottom, so as to be able to insert a light bulb and a cable for connection to the electric current.
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