Build A Tripod Lamp

If you don t have wood available head to your local hardware store to pick up a simple square piece roughly 6 x6 and an inch thick.

Build a tripod lamp.

This step is just to secure the three posts together until we can level the lampshade. It took two light coats and the rust was gone. Now if you want your cord to thread through one of your legs on the tripod in some. Make a wooden tripod floor lamp.

The first step to making your diy wood floor lamp is to prep your tripod for the lamp kit. Diy west elm inspired tripod floor lamp. Tripod floor lamps are the ultimate splendor addition to your rooms. Clean the tripod then paint it.

Thread cord secure base. Next you insert the pole that comes in that comes with the extended poles. We will wrap more strapping around the base soon to make it sturdy. These are hollow for the wires to be fed through.

Using a scrap piece of wood and hinges i attached the angled side of the wood to the scrap piece that will work as a base to attach the lamp kit. I used rust oleum universal metallic spray paint in oil rubbed bronze. Install the lamp kit. Using the leather strapping secure the third post to the other two so it becomes a tripod base.

How to build the tripod lamp. Next put on the washer lock washer and nut. How to make a tripod floor lamp. When i got it the tripod was a bit rusty.

First we simply screwed the top off and drilled a hole with a 1 2 in drill bit that fit the lamp kit. 10 easy to make diy tripod floor lamps 1.