Here are eighteen of the best DIY outdoor lighting ideas…

Make Your Own Outdoor Candle Lantern – This clever lantern is super cheap to make and requires very little effort. It will create ambient lighting for any garden occasion. Make a cluster of them and create a real centre piece.

How To Make A Mason Jar Solar Lamp – No need for batteries or electric, after the initial investment, these are powered purely by the SUN. You could even get your hands on some coloured mason jars and experiment with colours.

Make Your Own Ice Lanterns – These cool ice lanterns not only provide light for your back yard get together, but also a lovely winter scent. They look stunning too! (Pictured right)

How To Make Magical Paper Star Lanterns – These will make any old space feel enchanted and beautiful. You don’s have to have a massive back yard for these, they would make the smallest of patio’s look incredible. Why not hang them high in a tree to get a dramatic effect.

Make An Outdoor Indoor Lamp – Why not make your outside space feel like indoors, the perfect way to achieve this would be creating this fabulous outdoor lamp.

How To Make Wine Bottle Tiki Torches – These funky tiki torches are dead simple to make, and can make great outside lighting around your patio or table. By using left over wine bottles, you are recycling too!

How To Make A Twine Ball Light Garland – Thisfun craft idea can be tailored to your own tastes and would look great hung up around the garden table or in a tree.

Make Your Own Tiki Torch Holding Bracket – This great DIY shows how to make a sturdy bracket for your tiki torch, these can be placed onto your back yard fence to make great lighting and lovely features.

How To Make Glowing Outdoor Orbs – All you need is Opaque glass shades from a second hand shop and some Christmas lights to make these incredible glass orbs. Dot a few around the garden and they will create the most perfect glowing effect.

Make Your Own Tin Can Lanterns – With a few simple instructions and materials you will find lying around the house, you too can make these pretty vintage tin can lanterns. A quick and easy way of lighting your back yard.

How To Make Sun Jar Lights – These are another version of the DIY  about solar powered lights in mason jars, this particular post details how to make the light more ambient and look like a delicate glowing sun. Just one of many effects to experiment with….

How To Make Outdoor Plastic Bottle Lights – These are simple to make and really cool to look at, the design is original and almost looks like a tree or plant.

Make Your Own Floating Candle Light – This post gives a whole list of really inspiring tips and ideas for garden parties, the lighting part is really interesting, it details how to make some stylish floating candle lights.

How To Make Your Own Glowing Garden Ball – This will make any back yard stand out amongst its neighbours, by using a colour pallet to your own tastes and style these could really be a stand out feature in the daytime and stunning lighting when dark.

Make Your Own Citronella Candles – These are inexpensive, but effective when it comes to warning off those little pests in the night time air allowing you to enjoy a summers eve in peace.

Make Your Own Cup Cake Lights – This neat idea only needs two materials, some fairy lights or bulbs and some cute cup cake cases from your kitchen cupboard. Perfect for an outside party.

How To Make Wine Glass Candle Lightshades – These can be scattered across the table and will make original tones and shades of light. Why not get creative and design these as you like, whether that be painting, stencilling or printing…..

Make Your Own Paper Bag Lanterns – Create your own designs on a standard paper bag, place a candle in and start lighting your back yard inexpensively with beautiful effects.

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Fancy Basket Lamp: Turn wicker, ceramic and clay pots into outdoor lanterns. (via The Art of Doing Stuff)

2 Hanging Jar Lights

Hanging Jar Lights: Crafty Nest shares practical, inexpensive, and pretty DIY home decorating crafts and ideas. Many of the do-it-yourself projects include salvaged, green, or recycled materials. (via Crafty Nest)

3 Homemade Simple Garden Lights

Homemade Simple Garden Lights: photographer RACHEL WHITING by Cybele These gorgeous garden lights are by BBC Journalist Joanna Gosling for her latest book Homemade Simple. With a title like that, it was guaranteed (via Blah Blah Magazine)

4 Solar Lanterns

Solar Lanterns: Decorate your outdoor space this summer with DIY solar lanterns! They are easy to make and look so pretty when the colorful frost paint is illuminated. (via Everyday Dishes)

5 Lucky Tiki Torches

Lucky Tiki Torches: This project has been on my list for a while now and I’m so excited to finally make these tiki torches from Lucky Buddha beer bottles. They just look awesome! And they’re the perfect backyard lighting and decoration for summertime. Adventures in Making)

6 Tin Can Lanterns

Tin Can Lanterns (via Craft Foxes)

7 Firefly Mason Jar Lights

Firefly Mason Jar Lights: I am on a bit of a firefly kick this summer. I have already shared my Glow-in-the-Dark Firefly Key Chains with you. This project centers around the same idea the joy of catching fireflies in a jar. This DIY requires only three supplies and will take you all of 15 minutes to put together. (via Mad in Crafts)

8 Glowing Outdoor Orbs

Glowing Outdoor Orbs: Make contemporary backyard lights with stuff from around your house. (via The Art of Doing Stuff)

9 Citronella Candles

Citronella Candles: If your favourite thing in the summer is warm nights outside then likely one of your least favourite is getting eaten alive by mosquitoes. Making citronella candles in cans is a great recycling project that is inexpensive and effective much like theSoy Beeswax Jar CandlesI made a few months back. I make lots of candles to create a bug-free barrier … (via Garden Therapy)

10 Rustic Outdoor Chandelier

Rustic Outdoor Chandelier: Illuminate your backyard porch or patio with this DIY rustic outdoor chandelier, made of natural elements and lit by citronella candles. (via Crafts Unleashed)

11 Love Party Lanterns

Love Party Lanterns: Marilyn from Pink Martinis and Pearls shares her summer party and mason jar lanterns DIY inspired by our Lemonade Love … (via tinyprints)

12 Gift Bag Lights

Gift Bag Lights (via A Nest for All Seasons)

13 Tiki Torch Bottles

Tiki Torch Bottles: In honor of all the Labor Day BBQs that are going down this weekend, weve created DIY tiki torches out of classic American liquor bottles. I originally spotted this idea at my friend Todds fiesta party and being the party enthusiast I am, it was a tell me how you did that right now or…readmore (via Sugar and Charm)

14 Polka Dot Paper Lanterns

Polka Dot Paper Lanterns (via Just Crafty Enough)

15 Cupcake Lights Are Sweet

Cupcake Lights Are Sweet: I found great looking cupcake tin liners at IKEA – they reminded me of small pleated lampshades. Within minutes, I created a softer look on a strand of bulbs hanging in my garden… (via Family Chic)

16 Inspired Dreamlight

Inspired Dreamlight: Follow this tutorial to create your own knock-off Dreamlight as seen at Urban Outfitters. (via bre pea)

17 Plastic Bottle Party Light

Plastic Bottle Party Light: Plastic trash is a serious problem. It is a fact. Every year more plastic bottles are manufactured than recycled, and it takes 5 to 6 decades for most (via {easy}Paper Crafts)

18 Colorful Garden DIY Lanterns

Colorful Garden DIY Lanterns: Making your own colorful garden DIY lanterns has never been easier: just use mason jars and candles, plus a special something for color. (via Hello Natural)

19 Hanging Mason Jar Lights

Hanging Mason Jar Lights (via 17 Apart)

20 Mason Jar Solar Light

Mason Jar Solar Light: A simple tutorial for creating DIY solar lights with vintage mason jars. (via Finding Home)

21 Shuttlecock Lights Garland

Shuttlecock Lights Garland: Make a DIY lights garland with the aid of badminton shuttlecocks. Easy and super cute! (via Kittenhood)

22 Grapevine Balls Patio Lights

Grapevine Balls Patio Lights (via Crafty Butt)

23 Starry Lights

Starry Lights: Make these string lights into festive starry lights with easy foil paper and star punch tutorial. (via lia griffith)

24 Twine Balls Light

Twine Balls Light: I joined a Pinterest a little more than a month ago and have been slowly falling in love with it ever since. Does anyone else use the site? Seriously, its crazy nifty and can easily fill hours and hours of your time with great ideas and tons o eye candy. Ive started a few boards,…Read More (via Splash of Something)

25 Decoupaged Mason Jar Lights

Decoupaged Mason Jar Lights: Bubby and Bean is a design and lifestyle blog that focuses on living creatively through art, design, fashion, DIY projects and tutorials, travel, music life, love, and learning. (via Bubby & Bean)

26 Ice Lanterns

Ice Lanterns (via Willow Day)

27 Wine Glass Candle Lampshades

Wine Glass Candle Lampshades: In your blog travels, you may have come across the Dekoop Gorgeous Helen Wine Shades which tops off your wine glasses to make easy votive lamps for your parties. I couldn’t get them off my mind for months when I first saw them; I thought they were so (via Popsugar)

28 Autumn Leaf Lighting

Autumn Leaf Lighting: There is nothing more lovely than a beautiful Autumn day! It is the perfect time of year to spend outside with family and friends.Recently, I gave my summer lighting a fall makeover using silk leaves. I couldnt be more thrilled with the final look! The vibrant hues make my patio come alive! I Read More… (via Oh My! Creative)

29 Washi Tape Lantern

Washi Tape Lantern: Combine washi tape and a glass jar and youve got yourself a beautiful lantern! I was gonna publish this a couple of days ago, but Ive been a bit busy running my first 50 miles ultramarathon up in the mountains of Telemark. I gotta tell you, is was tough! Stubborn as I am, I made Continue reading Washi Tape Lantern (via Morning Creativity)

30 Canning Jar Lights

Canning Jar Lights (via Apples of My eye)

31 Wine Bottle Torch

Wine Bottle Torch: Your home for all things Design. Home Tours, DIY Project, City Guides, Shopping Guides, Before & Afters and much more (via Design Sponge)

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