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Balsa Turbine Shade for the REGOLIT floor lamp

Balsa Turbine Shade for the REGOLIT floor lamp

I really wanted a floor lamp that would hang a nice looking shade + bulb over my IKEA dining table. I couldn’t find any that I liked, so I bought the REGOLIT floor lamp with the intention of getting rid of its super oversized lamp shade. It took several days…

DIY veneer lamp shade to light your thanksgiving table

DIY veneer lamp shade to light your thanksgiving table

Here’s a lantern hack which is just perfect above a Thanksgiving table. Cristina bought these REGOLIT paper lamp shades a long time ago but changed her mind about using them in her daughter’s room. She dusted them off and made them into a veneer lamp shade. With the wood accents the…

Coffee with your light? A DIY Chandelier

Coffee with your light? A DIY Chandelier

Materials: Ikea’€™s Regolit paper shade, Ikea’€™s Hemma Cord, a glue gun, sticks of glue, 500-800 coffee filters, light bulb, zip tie (optional)Description: To start begin by gluing the coffee filters in one area of the lantern and slowly spread outwards. I found it was helpful to glue the coffee filters…

Air balloon ceiling light for less than 10,00 Euro

Air balloon ceiling light for less than 10,00 Euro

Materials: Regolit, white rattan basket, ribbons, glue gun Description: Three years ago while decorating my son’s bedroom I desperately searched for an air balloon ceiling light. Everything I found was too expensive for my budget and so I decided to make one myself using Regolit (lattern), a white rattan basket…

Old salt lamp

Old salt lamp

Materials: Regolit, fishing rodDescription: Usually Regolit is a lamp for ceilings. Conversely I attached it at a fishing rod, using its own electric cable as the fishing line, to create the effect of a beautiful marine lamp. I fixed the fishing rod to the ceiling using a little nail and…

Pokeball Regolit Pinata

Pokeball Regolit Pinata

Every year I craft with my son a piñata for his birthday, and this year he’s obsessed with Pokémon and asked for a Pokéball-shaped one. After trying (and failing) with a papier-maché covered beach ball, I used a ready made and super cheap Regolit lampshade (1,99 €) and some crepe paper.…

Pimp my Regolit lamp

Pimp my Regolit lamp

Materials: Regolit lamp and crepe paper’s flowers Description: Made crepe paper’s flowers. Put them with hot glue on old and holed Regolit lamp. ~ Valevalevale

Sandwich paper Regolit lamp

Sandwich paper Regolit lamp

Materials: Regolit shade, hot glue, sandwich paper Description: As many other hackers before me, I wanted to turn my cheap but boring Regolit shade into something special (and if my idea comes close to some other hack, that did not happen willfully!). How to: I took randomly dragged pieces of…

Glowing Flower

Glowing Flower

Materials: IKEA Regolit Lamp, small and big paper muffin liners,a pair of scissors, glueDescription: I was a little bit bored by our Regolit Lamp, so I changed it a little bit.First you have to cut the sides until the bottom of the Paper Muffin Liners. After this you have to…

Coffee haters Zorb lampshade

Coffee haters Zorb lampshade

Materials: Regolit Description: Instead of gluing on coffee filters, I sewed on muffin cases. I used a running stitch around the support canes, quite loose. The muffin cases were scrunched up a bit, and I tried to avoid being precise. The only tricky bit was that I had to wear…

Zorb Light

Zorb Light

Materials: Regolit Pendant Description: Previously we had coffee filters on a Melodi lamp shade. Now, here is one on the paper shade, Regolit, by Jane from Modern Jane. Love the giant orb. Even better when illuminated. See more of the coffee filter pendant. ~ Jules

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Muffin liner light

Materials: RegolitDescription: Beate tipped me on this muffin liner lamp she stumbled upon in Youtube. It’s easy to do, and most will get it though the instructions are not in English. From far, the hacked Regolit looks like a giant golf ball. The hack ends at around 3.30 min. After…

Sakura lamp

Sakura lamp

Materials: IKEA Regolit Pendant Lamp, Måla brushes and water paint Description: I needed a cheap lamp shade for my entrance. The style of my apartment is Japanese and I searched the internet and found one with painted cherry blossoms. But alas, it was way out of my budget. So I…

Lovely snowball light!

Lovely snowball light!

Materials: Ikea paper lantern (Regolit)Description: I stole this idea from somewhere (can’t remember where) so I won’t take credit for it! I had however bought the coffee filters months prior, knowing I would find some crafty use for them eventually. So you could say I willed this into existence. Right?…

A Lill Creepy Halloween Party

A Lill Creepy Halloween Party

Materials: Lill, Vate, RegolitDescription: I was looking for inexpensive, cool Halloween decorations for a party. Thus Ikea! I was working with a gym here, so not that attractive. I tied some twine across the basketball hoops to drape things across. To create some creepy cloth I took three Lill curtains…

Regolit lamp – with Ligne Roset head

Regolit lamp – with Ligne Roset head

Materials: Ikea Regolit lamp, Ligne Roset Bloom lampDescription: I felt in love with the Ligne Roset Bloom floor lamp, but I had two problems with it. First of all, the original one was smaller than I needed. The other problem was the high price. So I simple reduced the price…

Hundreds and Thousands Regolit lamp

Hundreds and Thousands Regolit lamp

Materials: REGOLIT lamp shade & HEMMA cord set, translucent paper, wallpaper pasteDescription: 1. Mix a small bowl of wallpaper paste, you won’t need much. 2. Cut out circles in different sizes from the translucent paper. 3. Plaster the lamp with circles, alternating colors and sizes. I created a gradient effect,…

Hot air balloon Regolit

Hot air balloon Regolit

Materials: Regolit, paint, box, string, fabric scraps.Description: We got some Regolit light shades and have been decorating them to suit our style. We did a hot air balloon for the spare bedroom, this was inspired by something my Dad had seen once but unfortunately he doesn’t remember where! This was…

Air urchin

Air urchin

Materials: regolit lamp shade, yarn and crochet hookDescription: With some left over yarn I started a circular geometric crochet pattern with a globe shape and applied to the lamp! Simple, cheap and super cute!~ Raquel, Porto (Portugal)

My cherry blossom lantern, inspired by Joey

My cherry blossom lantern, inspired by Joey

Materials: Regolit lampDescription: When I saw Joey’s cherry blossom lantern, I immediately fell in love with it. Since I already had two Regolit lamps at home, I decided to make my own cherry blossom lanterns. I liked Joey’s a lot, but I was looking for a more delicate appearance, I…

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