Monday, November 1, 2010

How to make paper lampshades

There are many beautiful hand-made designer and documents for the scheme area begging to be used only in one and one of the ways you can complement your decor is by using shade to the lamp.

If you have any lamp shade design of paper you want to use, as then there are some ways you can do.

1. Use a frame

If the paper is strong enough, you can wrap around a lampshade and glue,engages carefully. These structures are available from boats. For this method you need to make sure you are careful enough, and the paper strong enough to avoid adding the metal structures are broken. It would be a shame to see, the frame poking through your beautiful card.

2. Using an existing shadow

The method I prefer for shade lampshade lamp cover of an existing simple. The shadow is tearing the paper exists to protect andA better basis, use the paper. (I tend to use the first method only if the card is transparent, and would love to see the light through it).

You can make a lamp shade you already own or buy an inexpensive lampshade that you can customize.

Make a paper model of the existing shadow, shadow the seam on a large sheet of paper. Select the two edges of the seam and then roll the shadow marked the paper with a pencil along the upper and lowerEdges to the stitch again. Allowing in more than half an inch from the seam edge to overlap for gluing.

Place your model on the wrong side of the screen and easily select paper chose the shape of the shadows. You can cut, how, or add decorative edges, if necessary, as a serrated edge.

Glue the seam at the intersection and when it is dry and safe, the new shadow on the existing shadows to your new look for shadows.

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Each time a shade of paper, make sure the paper use away from the bulb and far enough to prevent a fire than incandescent bulbs, can be very hot, the power light bulbs do not get as hot in the U.S., yet emit more light than conventional bulbs. Also, make sure you have enough distance between the center of the piston and the shadow - the so-called "critical radius". This distance should be at least three centimeters on the safe side for a typical 100 wattBulb. Also check the bulb and when the shadow becomes very hot after receiving the lamp for 5 minutes, then the light bulb and shade near des

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