Glass bottles: how they become chandeliers and serving dishes

It happens to all of us to accumulate at home glass bottles that could be useful to us but that we don't know where to put later. For this time, instead of sending them to the collection, save them because we'll show you how to recycle them with imagination and transform them into many new useful objects, gift ideas, and original home decorations.

Decorated bottles

The bottles decorated with the decoupage technique are delicious, and you can have fun creating them objects with a romantic taste, which will embellish every corner of the house. To decorate them, you can also use fabric scraps from your sewing box, colorful beads, or old keys to hang around the necks of bottles to give them a retro look, which is always popular.

Chandeliers

Glass bottles can be used to create chandeliers Really not bad, it can be placed in any room of the house. The project is quite demanding but certainly not impossible to achieve. All you need is a lamp holder to hang the bottles from, pass the power cord through the holder, and place the bulb.

Mosaic bottle

The beautiful one bottle decorated with pieces of glass, which give it a surprising mosaic effect.

Library

The idea of ​​the creative library which uses bottles as pillars, even better if colored and with a fairly rounded shape, on which to stack the shelves horizontally, possibly with special holes to allow the neck of the bottle to pass through.

Lamp

With the old, elegant bottle of a now consumed liqueur, we can make a lamp with a refined taste, which decorates the bedside table in the bedroom or illuminates the corner of the living room.

Decorative object

If painted with a black “chalkboard” effect paint, the bottle becomes not only a decorative object but also a support on which to create small or large decorations with white and colored chalks.

Platter

A glass bottle, if cut in half, becomes a real platter, perhaps to serve a fresh appetizer. Cutting glass is not that complex. With a cutter, simply score the bottle exactly where you want to cut it and then heat the part with the flame of a candleNext, immerse the bottle in very cold water and wait for the thermal shock to cause the cut: you may need to repeat the process several times. Finally, smooth out any sharp edges with sandpaper so the resulting object is safe to use. This way, you can create anything with glass bottles, from succulent pots to drinking glasses to home decorations, such as those made of lights and bottle bottoms to hang on walls.

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