Give Your Boring Floor Lamp A Floral Makeover With A Simple DIY

Beautiful lighting options do not have to be expensive — there are many creative ways to turn old table, floor, and accent lamps into unique projects that rival some of the most beautiful and luxe statement fixtures available from retailers. Creative DIYers can make a gorgeous dupe for an Urban Outfitters floral lamp created out of an ordinary, outdated floor lamp and some leftover metal flashing. The result is a stunning floral lamp that can be created on a budget.

The project not only adds a ton of botanical beauty to cottage and whimsical boho-style spaces, but it's also a great eco-friendly way to repurpose old floor lamps that could otherwise wind up in a landfill. To create the flower, you'll use the pole and arms as the stem and the shades as the flower blooms, cut with a scalloped edge to make them look floral. The metal flashing forms the leaves. If you don't have flashing, which is typically used in roofing, you can purchase options like this Eagle 1 general use and roof flashing, available in rolls in various widths. You could also use inexpensive DihZoks thin tin coated sheets.

There are endless ways to customize the project to fit your personal aesthetic with the materials, color, and type of flower you create for the shade. You can use lamps made with different materials and configurations, including a multi-arm lamp or a single-shade arched lamp. Make sure the lamp shades are made from material that you can easily cut — plastic or thin metal is ideal.

Sand the finish to create a rougher surface for paint and adhesive. Remove the shades, saving the hardware to reattach them later. You can create leaves with metal flashing cut into your preferred leaf shape with tin snips or sharp scissors. Bend and score the leaves to give a 3D effect. Glue the leaves onto the pole with hot glue, clamping them in place as they dry. Paint the pole, leaves, and sockets a crisp green color before reattaching the shades.

For the shades, which become the blooms, create a stencil for a scalloped look as a guide for the shade edges. Cutting the shades with scissors can be difficult, but heating them with a heat gun or blow dryer can soften the material and make it easier to cut along the lines. You can leave the shades as they are, paint them, or use colored bulbs to change the look.

This DIY stylish statement lighting has many options for customization, including the shape and number of leaves, as well as the shade design. You can add other elements and textures to the existing shade, like using crepe paper to create a textured DIY flower lamp. Or you can use glass paint on a glass shade to create a floral look. The basic DIY project can be created for pennies, but you can replace uninspiring lamp shades with pretty floral ones. Cute options include the Bieye lily flower blown glass lampshade, the Veemoon white frosted flower lampshade, and the Yarnow pink glass lampshade. New shades may require some modification on the existing lamp to attach them.