41 DIY Outdoor Lighting Ideas
Looking for some DIY lighting ideas for outdoors? When it comes to cool lights for your patio, porch, pool or backyard, what you find at local hardware stores and even specialty shops is usually not that impressive. When it is, often a single light will cost you several hundred dollars. If you want the best DIY outdoor lighting ideas, so you can have great looking lighting that is unique, inexpensive and refective of your style, then check out this list of 41 lighting ideas you need outside your home.
DIY Outdoor Lighting Ideas
1. Recycled Wine Bottle Torch
My favorite remake of a tiki torch, this wine bottle torch is so pretty, I’ve added 8 of them around our recently installed deck. If you want something super cool but cheap, make the DIY torches for your yard or backyard patio. You can even add citronella oil to them and keep away the bugs. We love being able to eat outside and have friends over without worrying about having the mosquitos join us.
2. $10 and 10 Minute Solar Chandelier
An outdoor lighting idea that is quick, easy and cheap, this DIY chandelier can be yours by this weekend. Follow the step by step tutorial to learn how to make your own.
3. DIY Mason Jar Solar Light
If your patio or yard needs some gorgeous lighting, it does not get much better than this solar mason jar light. I made four of these with some pretty vintage jars that have a slight blue-green tint to them and am now wishing I had a few more. When I got to use them last summer at our pool parties, people could not stop commenting on them when they lit up at sunset.
4. Solar Mason Jar Lights
Another inexpensive but really fabulous lighting idea that uses mason jars and solar power, this one casts a pretty patterned glow on your table. I highly recommend making a few now so you will have them for your next outdoor dinner party under the stars.
5. Outdoor Rope Light
Rope lighting can be found easily at your hardware store, but the one I bought never looked quite like this. When you light up a walkway properly, the effect can be transformational. I love this idea because it also makes it much easier to walk in the dark 😉
6. Outdoor Tuna Can Lantern
Who would know this amazing DIY lighting idea was made from a tuna can? I certainly did a double take. The only question is do you tell people who remark on their beauty what they are actually made of?
7. Globe String Lights
8. Easy DIY Porch Light
9. DIY Succulent Chandelier
10. Back Patio Light
11. Hang Patio Lights
12. Lighted Ladder Gate
13. Mobile String Light Poles Easy DIY
14. Outdoor Fairy Lights
15. Tin Can Lanterns
16. Paper-Bag Party Lights
17. Cupcake Liner Lights
18. Glowing Outdoor Orbs
19. Paper Bag Lights
20. Small Backyard Lights
21. Homemade Rope Light Sign
22. DIY Outdoor Solar Chandelier
23. Cozy Patio Lights
24. DIY Outdoor Light Poles
25. Mini Mason Jar Garden Lights
26. Old Lantern Lights
27. DIY Icicle Chandelier
28. DIY Mason Jar Tiki Torches
29. Lighted Side Table Using Grapevine Orbs
30. Beer Bottle Lights
31. Outdoor Globe Lights
32. Outdoor Dining Room Lights
33. Backyard Patio Makeover With String Lights
34. Best Outdoor String Lights
35. Summer Garden Party Lights
36. Outdoor Hula Hoop String Lights
37. Chandelier Solar Lights
38. Starry Lights
39. Turn Wire Baskets into a Fairy Light Globe
40. Solar Light Planter
41. Illuminate Your Pathways
