Basic plumbing supplies like iron flanges, elbow joints, and nipples (plumbers’ parlance for straight pipes) are sturdy enough to support shelves or bars-or even the bathroom sink! Just clean off any grease from your assembled projects with mineral spirits, add a layer of finishing wax to stave off rust, and they'll look appropriate in any room of the house.Īnd, as you’ll find upon perusing, a leading online plumbing and HVAC retailer, plumbing parts can be had for pennies, so you’ll get a major return on a rock-bottom investment. Connect the two neutral wires with the wire nut, the neutral from the socket, and the neutral wire from the lamp cord. Even if you don’t consider yourself especially crafty, you can create cool stuff, because the threaded fittings join together easily. We wrapped a small piece of black electrical tape around the hot wire for easier identification. That’s right: Plumbing has emerged from behind the walls to star in all kinds of practical, great-looking designs. This is my build of an industrial style lamp, using black-iron pipe and a wine bottle.The info for the rotary switch and the rubber sheet can be seen on the. I ended up purchasing all the plumbing for this project from Home Depot. The project can be built with minimal tools. The Materials When planning out my DIY industrial pipe lamp, I decided that I wanted to go with a tree-style design with three bulbs, for no other reason than I saw something similar on Etsy and thought it looked cool.
I'm not sure the files knows that, however, after helping her fix the pipes all over the garden, there were a few extra leftovers and I decided to turn them into a nice, cool, rustic lamp. The lamp is made with black pipe and edison bulb for cool industial look. If you dig industrial décor-the edgy aesthetic that celebrates old-school utilitarian design-get psyched to discover some fun new do-it-yourself projects, all using black fittings. 2 Hours Easy According to my landlady, when using iron pipes in the garden, it confuses and repels all sorts of flying bugs like mosquitoes from biting you.
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