Diy Cardboard Pendant Light

Hi all! Chelsea hither from Lovely Indeed, happy to live on joining the amazing DIY team at ! I'm a big fan of recycling as well as repurposing, as well as thus I decided to instruct to travel on some cardboard boxes I had laying merely about the house. As it turns out, cardboard makes a pretty sweetness niggling pendant light.

First, assemble your materials.

Corrugated cardboard, 25" broad as well as every bit tall every bit you'd similar your light
Spray paint
Yard stick
Box cutter
Glue gun
Pendant low-cal cord (this one from Ikea is entirely $5!)

Step 1: Start past times spray icon ane side of the cardboard. Let it dry out thoroughly as well as plough the cardboard painted side down.

Step 2: Mark the cardboard at 5-inch intervals lengthwise alongside the box cutter. On each mark, brand a vertical cutting alongside the box cutter as well as thus that the elevation side of the cardboard is cutting but the bottom side remains intact.

Step 3: Lay the cardboard apartment ane time to a greater extent than as well as cutting it into strips lengthwise past times tracing along the yard stick alongside the box cutter.

Step 4: Once your strips are cut, hot gum the ends of each strip together (painted side in) as well as thus that yous accept pentagons. Then start making a staggered stack alongside the pentagons as well as securing them inward house alongside hot glue.

Step 5: Finally, cutting a corporation pentagon out of cardboard for the elevation of the pendant. Cut a hole inward the elevation merely broad plenty to tally the low-cal socket snugly. Secure this to the elevation of the pendant alongside hot glue, as well as low-cal it up!

Not certain nonetheless where this niggling guy is going to alive inward my house, but I accept a feeling he'll brighten the perfect corner. Have fun!