The Top Five DIY LED Lighting Projects For Home Decor That Are Budget Friendly.
It was no Christmas eve or a Halloween, just a regular weekend. And, Daisy was invited by her brother for a dinner at his home located in Doraville, Atlanta. This was the first time she was visiting him, since her relocation from New York to Atlanta.
The moment she enters his house on a cool Saturday evening, she exclaims — Oh! Your house is so beautiful, both, from inside and outside. The interiors are so traditional and yet so elegant…
Pat came the reply from Tim, Daisy’s brother — How much do you think I must have spent on my home decor? Too much? Well, if you thought so, you are wrong. In any case, you knew that I always live within budget, don’t I? And, trust me half of what you see is the magic of LED lighting…
Daisy then quickly said to her mind — What if these carpeted floors and the walls retouched with paintings and cool, light colors didn’t have the lighting effects on them?
Indeed! Sometimes the simplest of solutions are the best ones that can make you go easy on home decor and when constrained with budget. Most importantly the ‘grey areas’ that one could easily spot in the interiors of the house now looks bright, vibrant and lively with a slight change in the lighting techniques. Your bedroom that once looked dull and boring turned out to be one of the bedrooms with the use of LED lighting. One can not imagine, how one’s mood could change with the right kind of LED lighting at home and that, to remind you, at a negligible cost.
It would be wrong to think at any point in time that you can not have the home decor with less money in your wallet. Today the rapid changes in technology and consistent innovations in LED has given us plenty of home decor ideas that you often find difficult to choose between. The decorative LED bulbs are available in so many different colors and lumens that are way better than the traditional bulbs such as halogen, incandescent or CFL. There are bulbs which can mimic the fireworks and there are strip lights available as an assortment of colored LEDs — either in one single color or multiple colors — all of these to enhance the existing beauty of the original place but since you are on a budget,
And, the best part with these kind of LED lighting is that you can take up the ‘home decor’ as a DIY project….
But, before we delve into how inexpensive the LED lighting gets with DIY projects, we must first be able to tell you that when you consider the total costs of decorating your home, that would be negligible in comparison to what LED lighting of any kind offers.
Here’s the deal :
- LED lighting of any type has a longer lifespan over long-term use in comparison to any other traditional bulb.
- What a single traditional bulb such as incandescent would give at a particular watt (say, 60 watts), and CFL at 14–15 watts, LED can give brightness at a lesser wattage; probably 8–9 watts is just sufficient to give the same brightness as 60 watts.
- LEDs are environment friendly and they are worth the money that you spend.
All you need to have for DIY projects is having LEDs in single and dual density and those which are color-changing….
Let’s begin with all the DIY projects one by one which undoubtedly should sound exciting to you in multiple ways.
- DYI project 1 :Think first impression, think Lanterns
Do think of those moments when a guest is about to enter your house and there is either no light or glaring lights near the door and the porch. In either case, you and your guests will not be able to see each other clearly.
The best way is to use dimmer lights and lights that will also function as a ‘home decor’ style.
Make use of traditional coach lantern that can be fixed near the top of entrance door or by the sides of the entrance door. Choose a simple LED light bulb or A-type bulb that comes with a motion sensor so as to detect someone’s presence at your door. Cool, No? Make sure you have enough plants planted in your garden to create the most stylish look. The wall sconces and other wall fixtures casts light that highlight the Earth’s beauty. The same pattern can be followed for the interiors of your house walls.
- DYI Project 2 : Make use of bottles at your home
You may not be able to buy very expensive lights but you can make use of the soft drink bottles or beer bottles. Fix LED single short bulbs inside these bottles or you can also use string LEDs or strip LEDS for best results. You just have to make use of the drilling machine to make a hole in the bottles with proper wiring to these strips or strings. Try this out, your guests will love to watch this kind of lighting.
- DIY Project 3: Bottles can be Chandeliers
With the beer or wine bottles, you could also create a full chandelier. Take several bottles of wine and hang them all together upside down. Make use of either LED light bulbs or LED strips of different colors to be inserted inside these bottles and lo, you arrrrre done. Alternatively, if you can get pendants of different colors, adding a simple LED light bulb will create as much effect as any other expensive LED lighting product.
- DIY Project 3 : Make use of LED string lights in ping pong balls
Almost everyone keeps a string of Christmas lights at home to be made use of them during the Christmas eve. You can take sufficient number ping pong balls and insert those LED string lights or even strip LED lights into these balls. The remarkable aspect is these balls come at a very reasonable price. To say, this is one of the simplest kind of builds when speaking of DIY projects.
- DIY Project 4 : Make use of few strip light LEDs to make a stunning electric light umbrella
Again, you can make use of those many strip light LEDs, as many curves you have. You can have the on-off switch here. There are strip lights which can be bent as you want. This project and others like this will make your DIY piece stand out in home where everything that looked stunning was purchased from outside.
- DIY project 5 : Make ambilights your all-time choice
I am damn sure, many haven’t heard about the ‘’ambilights’ though they would have seen this kind of lighting system at several places. This technology developed by Philips — United States works by projecting light from your TV sets and can change colors or brightness automatically with the colors or brightness shown on screen. This technology is based on RGB LED.
Thus the LED lighting in the form of ambilights can be adjusted accordingly in order to match the other interior decor products and so as to set your mood and the tone, the way you want.
Conclusion
Needless to say, when your personal expenses take their toll on you, along with a downslide in economy, you can not spend much on the home decor. And, again lighting for the purpose of home decor may not be the first thing in your mind. But, these DIY projects are manageable with less finances. The only last thing that you would need is your will.
