DIY Life

Home lighting can be boring these days. From standard incandescent lighting over the kitchen table to that blah light over the home office desk, lights can make a dramatic statement as a piece of furniture or just as a utility product to give us the light we need to see. Personally, I'm a fan of indirect lighting, since the dramatic effect it creates usually looks really good while providing the light needed for, you know, seeing things around your home (like at night, heh).

Lava lamps have long been a staple of dramatic lighting (although very little light actually disperses from them), but they can be expensive and sometimes dangerous (as in, that child who accidentally knocks it over). If you're wanting that kind of coolness in your home lighting but are wanting to build one yourself on the cheap, the following video shows you how. Using mostly household ingredients like bottles, a lightbulb and socket adapter, satin hand soap, and an old mouse pad, you too can create your own "cloud" lamp. This will make for an easy weekend project for most of us, and should only take an hour or so from start to finish. Are you game?