Wine Bottle Turned Into A Lamp
When you need to purchase a brand new decorative lamp, going to the store and buy the expensive lamp is not a good idea. Instead, find a wine bottle in your home and make a highly decorative and completely functional lamp. The best thing is when you make the wine bottle lamp in an amazing theme or color, and then your love ones will never guess that you made that fantastic lamp. A huge jug style bottle is the best for this project. Else, have a clear wine bottle to make this decorative and functional bottle lamp. Also you will prepare a lampshade, and a bottle adapter lamp kit. Bottle adapter lamp kits are purchasable in many craft stores and hardware stores.
Anything else that you believe fitting to add to this project would be great such marbles, colorful candy, buttons, beads, coins, polished stones, layers of colored sand. And also filling the wine bottle lamp with silk flowers, shells, shredded colored paper, faux gems, or aquarium gravel is very applicable. Making this project have so many options just use your imaginative mind to match to the theme or design.
Drill a hole in the glass so that the cord of the bottle adapter lamp kit will not protrude from the head of the lamp when you install it. Carefully drill an opening near the base of the bottle through a carbon-tipped glass bit to hide the cord. But in making an attractive lamp it is not necessary to hide the cord for the cord joined to the bottom of the lamp is visually appealing enough compare to the cord coming out of a socket.
To cover the opening of your wine bottle, select a cork from the bottle adapter lamp kit which fits. Mostly, bottle adapter lamp kits are compatible for all variety of size bottles. This kit includes washers, a harp cradle, knurled nuts, a spindle, socket base, a cord, and a socket cover. To begin with, bring insert the spindle into the cork in assembling the bottle adapter lamp kit, while in its both ends attaching the nuts with washers. Then place and twist tightly the cork into the mouth of the wine bottle.
Second, join the spindle to the harp cradle, and then the socket base must be screwed on. Use the stripping tool to trim the ends of the cord and connect it into the base socket. While on the socket connectors the stripped ends are connected, and before anything else make it sure that you wrap then in a clockwise direction then screw it. You may consult the directions attached on your kit for more details. The last step is by removing the finial on the harp, and replaces it with a lampshade of your own choice above the spindle. Get the finial back to its place and screw it, put the light bulb, and the wine bottle lamp is waiting to shine.
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