Straightforward and beautiful coffee can lanterns is a nice way to decorate your backyard, porch or balcony in spring, summer and fall. This diy lantern project will help  recycle empty coffee cans for charming outside lights and add exclusive decorative accessnt to outside home decoration, generating romantic atmosphere at evening.

This lantern diy project was spotted on the blog Maggie Makes, weblog.maggiemakes.com/ which explores classic crafts for creative residence decoration and delivers fantastic tutorials with photographs for all who get pleasure from sophisticated and low-cost concepts.

Coffee cans are superb material for designing lanterns and pendant outside lights for your garden, balcony or patio. They appear gorgeous at evening, adding rustic charm to outside property decorating and generating nights outdoors magic, specific and relaxing.

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Coffee can lanterns for outdoor living spaces

Making coffee can lanterns is one of low cost tips that can dramatically transform your outside living space. Coffee can lanterns are basic to make, modify and customize.

Coffee can lanterns are superb balcony or garden decorations for a late evening party or just relaxation, enjoying a romantic evening with friends or loved ones.

There are three lovely lantern designs, that can inspire your own patterns. Producing your own lantern styles are good diy projects that offer you several possibilities to add a private touch to outside property decoration.

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Decorate your garden or patio with homemade lanterns, adding mysterious and romantic decorative accents. Light creates delicate patterns and bautiful shadows. A lit candle inside the basic can lantern will give your outside living space softness, warmth and comfort, making special and interesting property decorating.

Supplies

– coffee Cans
– ball-peen hammer
– 2 x 4 (one foot length)
– 1 x four (two foot length)
– clamps
– nails, screwdrivers (range)
– votives

Diy project guidelines

1. Prepare your workspace by attaching the 1×4 to the 2×4 as shown making use of wood screws or nails. Make certain the 1×4 extends the 2×4 on one end by the depth of your can and is attached with the 1inch edge upwards. This thin perform region assists to stop denting to your lantern when punching the design. Use the clamps to secure the 2×4 to a sturdy table.

two. Print out the design of your choice and tape it about your can.

three. Location the end of the 1×4 inside your can. Utilizing a tiny nail, punch the corner dots in the design you choose. Turn the can as you go to make positive that the region you are punching is supported by the wood.

4. Get rid of the paper. Using your other tools finish punching the rest of the design and style following your guide holes. Experiment with a selection of nails and screwdrivers to create various shape and size punches.

5. For hanging, use the wire to develop a straightforward hook by threading a length of wire by way of two holes on opposite sides of the can and secure.

six. To finish add 2-three votives, light and enjoy!

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