Custom Homes | For your guests to get maximum enjoyment, check that you have comfortable seating, a curtain or screen to keep out bugs and reliable lighting. Every outdoor activity depends on your yard being well-lit. If you want to pep up your space with creative and unique DIY outdoor lighting, check out these eight ideas!
1. Folded Paper Lanterns
How to Make Star Lanterns via Debbie @Me and My DIY
Perfect for hanging from branches or arranging along your porch banister, these whimsical little lanterns are an inexpensive and fun way of adding some light to your night.
2. Mason Jar Votives
Upcycle your empty sauce jars or buy a bunch of low-cost mason jars for these sweet lanterns that you can fill with tea lights or electric candles and use to line your walkway or decorate your picnic table.
3. Candle Chandelier
Outdoor Living Room Chandelier via Corey @Tiny Sidekick
If you’ve got any old chandeliers lying around, now is the perfect time to give one a bright, springy makeover and add little glass cups for tea lights. An elegant outdoor chandelier won’t only light up your space, it will dress it up too!
4. Sparkling Garden Orb
DIY Sparkling Orb via Melissa @Empress of Dirt
Now, here’s a genius DIY! Use four circular planters to create this sparkling orb light by simply shaping them into a large sphere and securing them with zip ties. Then, just wind string lights around and through your creation — what a bright idea!
5. Faux Stone Lantern
DIY Faux Stone Lantern via Tara @Anything & Everything
Turn craft store foam boards into high-end stone lanterns with this quick and clever DIY. Make a few of these, and use them to line your walkway or your porch steps.
6. Lighted Gazing Ball
Make a Lighted Gazing Ball via Julee
Buy a standard glass gazing ball from your nearest garden or craft center, and give this clever fairy light idea a go! All it takes is a string of multi-colored lights and the perfect place in your garden to add a flower bed light that you just know you’ll show off to everyone.
7. Hanging Grapevine Orbs
Build your own orbs from grapevine, and then use tiny fairy lights to bring them to life. These glowing grapevine orbs will look like a true fairy tale in your garden, especially if you hang them from trees or arrange them throughout plants and bushes.
8. Mason Jar Solar Lights
DIY Mason Jar Lights via Dee @ThriftDee
Add hanging lanterns to your entire yard, with these super easy DIY mason jar solar lights. Energy efficient and super chic, these little hanging lights are just the thing to create convenient pathway lighting or hang from your fence or porch beams. - Redfin
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