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DIY Wood Lamp Ideas

Wood is one of the most popular materials in interior design and it’s mostly because of its variety of colors, textures, shapes and patterns. Any piece of wood can be used to add personality to a room and emphasize your unique style and we love this material for lighting.
Wood lamps look very nice and can be customized to match your home decor, be it rustic, modern, minimalist or simply laid back and homey. This material adds warmth and elegance, it’s easy to work with and pretty cheap to acquire. You can use new wood, recycle old wood elements from cabinets, wool spools, or you could even give driftwood a try. Yes, you read that right, driftwood makes beautiful lamp bases. Here’s what Jan Dickers, driftwood lamp designer, had to say about finding the right wood for her lamps:
Wood lamps can come in all shapes and functions, the only limit is your imagination. Before you start making plans for a wood lamp, make sure the wood base you have selected will withstand being drilled for the fittings.
If you’re recycling old wood, you can spruce it up to look appealing once again with sanding, staining and waxing. Wood accents on lamps can be spruced up by sanding off the original finish and staining or painting the wood. Consult your local hardware store for the proper sandpaper grits to ensure a smooth and even surface. If you’re giving a makeover to an old wood lamp, make sure you disassemble it first before sanding.

In today’s round-up post, we found 15 DIY wood lamp ideas that look so nice you will want to DIY immediately.

DIY wood table lamp crafted in a recycled wood block, featuring an Edison light bulb and colored wiring,

Adjustable DIY wood table lamp made from recycled slats of an old garden wooden sunshade

Wood cube floor and table lamp with blue steel legs

Handmade giraffe birch wood lamp with aluminum shade and colored wiring

Wood log table lamp, manually hollowed out

Ceiling wood slice lighting fixtures made from walnut

DIY wood table lamp made from ovangkol wood, with colored wiring and Edison light bulb

Boxed Style Lamp

DIY night lamp

DIY Tree Trunk Lamp with Character

DIY wooden bedside light cube

DIY Hexagon wood table lamp crafted of American Black Walnut with 25 watt Edison bulb

DIY Handmade Soccer Football Player Desk Lamp

Wooden veneer light pendant light made from oak in the form of a lotus flowe

DIY wood lamp made from reclaimed cigar box with Edison style light bulb for the ultimate vintage look