10 ideas to usefully and creatively reuse empty beer bottles.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himLe empty beer bottles and glass bottles of other beverages can be stored and reused for making useful items which can be obtained practically at no cost. With a little creativity, it will also be possible to create decorative objects to use in your home. From a bottle of beer it is very easy to obtain candle holders, new glasses or containers for the home. Here's how.
1) Turn a bottle into a vase
Here is a simple idea for decorate the table in case you have decided to keep small beer bottles. You can use them as if they were gods vasi to insert one or more flowers inside them for decorative purposes and to arrange them later in a creative way to embellish your table.
2) Candle holder
To have a candle holder at your disposal in a short time, it is sufficient to thoroughly wash the beer bottles and remove their labels. You can replace the original labels with decorative labels and decide to keep the bottle as it is, or to remove the bottom. After removing the bottom, the bottle can also be used as a lens hood for a tea light.
3) New containers
Beer bottles can be used as new containers that could prove to be very useful in both the kitchen and home care. In fact they can be used for pour the oil, to make and contain flavored oil, as containers for the detergent for the homemade dishes, for the liquid soap or simply for the water you want to put in the fridge.
4) Bowls or glasses
By removing the neck of the bottles with special tools, it will be possible to obtain new containers to be used as vases, bowls or glasses, if you can manage to make sure that the remaining edge is not sharp. The upper part of the bottles should not be thrown away, but used for the realization of candle holder, as proposed in point number 2.
5) Decorative containers for handmade candles
Small candles and candles can find their own placement inside the containers obtained by eliminating the upper part of the beer bottles. They can be used both for storing tealights or candles already purchased, and as a basis to make some self-produced candles, letting the wax pour inside them, after having positioned the wicks. The external part of the containers obtained can be decorated according to one's own imagination, for example by using colors to paint on the glass.
6) Oil lamp
Starting with the beer bottles, there are also those who have thought of trying to make some oil lamps, useful in case of emergency when you do not have torches and electric lights or normal candles available. Oil lamps can be made from empty beer bottles left whole or the top of which has been removed. Here and here are some examples that can be inspired by.
7) Bird feeder
Starting with a washed and well dried empty beer bottle, it is possible to create a bird feeder to be placed in your garden or on the windowsill. The bottle must be filled with seeds suitable for the purpose and must be placed upside down on a bowl. There should be no cutting parts, so that new guests to your garden cannot get injured.
8) Flower beds and paths
Empty beer bottles can be used to mark the borders of flower beds or paths in your garden. Each bottle will have to be washed and emptied, to then be filled with soil a positioned vertically upside down and in the ground, where you want to create a boundary line. The bottles can be placed one after the other to create the desired border.
9) Toothbrush holder
It's possible avoid buying a container for your toothbrush remembering to keep a medium or small bottle of beer. Once the top is removed, you will have a perfect container for your toothbrushes and toothpaste tube, which will be heavy enough not to tip over like some plastic containers.
10) Decorations and gifts
Finally, the beer bottles can be kept during the year in view of Christmas, to be used for the realization of decorations, to use for your home or as a gift. Beer bottles can be lined with glitter, beads or colored ribbons. Those who undertake to produce craft beer can keep the empty beer bottles and use them in turn for home brewing beer. Decorate the bottles with custom labels will make her an even more welcome gift.
Marta Albè