Diy Concrete Floor Lamp Base

This video shows how to make a modern diy led table lamp or desk lamp from concrete a 2x4 epoxy resin and a water pipe.

Diy concrete floor lamp base.

Floor lamps that get moved frequently last only a few years before their plastic and the cement inside crumbles. Apr 22 2020 get inspired and learn how to make your own concrete lights. If you re interested in the details of this build feel free to ask me in t. Having to shell out 35 60 every few years for a floor lamp is getting pretty tiring.

Can break with your hands. Paired with a smart out. Must be the lye in concrete. Here are some ideas for concrete lamps and lights pendants floor lamps and table lamps.

Diy concrete and wood led floor lamp. Also need to make sure metal base strong enough to hold weight of lamp straight. I used quikrete a vinyl concrete patching material to repair it. Movers smashed my weighted lamp base for my torchiere lamp.

The floor lamp base. I did fix a couple of floor lamps before by replacing the base filling with vinyl concrete and that worked out very well. Floor lamp bases often have plastic weights filled will sand or other material and the crack and degrade over a few years. Still thinking through what to use to make it heavier.

Just imagine the possibilities. I decided to used quickcrete concrete mix for the base and a small bucket as the mold to make a custom one. This is a fairly simple diy woodwo. Then i realized i needed a stand of some sort to hold it all up.

The wonderful benefit of making your own with concrete is that you can create any shape or size you want to. In this video i show you how i make my modern or industrial style concrete lamps. Hi guys for this instructable i wanted to share with you an easy way to make an awesome concrete lamp this idea can be scaled for all sizes whether you want to go small or large. On a continued note the concrete inner base covered in hard plastic coating just disintegrated plastic also.