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 in addition to repurposing, then I decided to teach to locomote on some cardboard boxes I had laying to a greater extent than or less the house. As it turns out, cardboard makes a pretty sugariness piddling pendant light.

First, get together your materials.

Corrugated cardboard, 25" broad in addition to equally tall equally you'd similar your light
Spray paint
Yard stick
Box cutter
Glue gun
Pendant lite cord (this one from Ikea is exclusively $5!)

Step 1: Start past times spray icon i side of the cardboard. Let it dry out thoroughly in addition to plough the cardboard painted side down.

Step 2: Mark the cardboard at 5-inch intervals lengthwise amongst the box cutter. On each mark, brand a vertical cutting amongst the box cutter then that the tiptop side of the cardboard is cutting but the bottom side remains intact.

Step 3: Lay the cardboard apartment in i lawsuit again in addition to cutting it into strips lengthwise past times tracing along the yard stick amongst the box cutter.

Step 4: Once your strips are cut, hot gum the ends of each strip together (painted side in) then that you lot bring pentagons. Then cause making a staggered stack amongst the pentagons in addition to securing them inward house amongst hot glue.

Step 5: Finally, cutting a company pentagon out of cardboard for the tiptop of the pendant. Cut a hole inward the tiptop simply broad plenty to tally the lite socket snugly. Secure this to the tiptop of the pendant amongst hot glue, in addition to lite it up!

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