Build pictures with lighting yourself

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If your room walls seem too dreary to you, you could try adding pictures with lighting. In this way you could put your pictures in the right light and create an unusual wall design.

Build light bars for your pictures.
Build light bars for your pictures. © Sebastian_Lux / Pixelio

What you need:

  • pictures
  • Oak strips
  • Solar lights for interiors
  • drilling machine
  • Wood glue
  • Superglue
  • Wood preservatives
  • Gloss varnish

Provide pictures with special frames

To as Wall design To make pictures with lighting, you should build special light strips. You can then attach these light strips to the side of the individual picture frames or from above and below. The light strips should be off wood and let into the holes for the sockets of the individual spotlights.

  • First, you should take a close look at your wall and determine where you want to hang the pictures with lighting. You should find various places that go through, for example window are brightly lit by the sun during the day.
  • Then determine the dimensions of the individual picture frames and use these dimensions to cut oak strips. The oak strips should be wide enough to then accommodate the lamp sockets.
  • Then you should buy solar lights for interiors at your trusted hardware store. After you have the solar lamps in place, you can drill holes for the solar lamps in the oak strips.
  • The holes should be large enough to accommodate the sockets for each lamp. You should drill the holes so that the distance between the holes is the same.
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The lighting is glued in

  • Before you add lighting to the pictures, the oak strips are first sanded down and coated with wood preservative.
  • Then provide the strips with a special gloss varnish and glue the solar lights into the holes provided for them. For this purpose, you should have bought special superglue from specialist retailers.
  • Now that the lighting for your pictures is in the oak strips, you can glue the strips to the individual picture frames with wood glue. Whether you attach the strips to the side or above and below is up to you.

When drilling the holes in the oak strips, you should definitely wear protective goggles!

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