Is your garbage can full of glass bottles? Why throw them away when with a pinch of creative recycling you might have a new table lamp, candle holder, shelves or useful bird feeders?
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himIs your garbage can full of glass bottles? Why throw them away when with a pinch of creative recycling could you have a new table lamp, candle holder, shelves or some useful bird feeders?
Here are some fun ideas for reusing bottles of beer, wine or liquor.
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TABLE LAMP
Transforming a very common glass bottle for wine into an original one table lamp it has never been easier! Just make a hole in the body of the bottle with the help of a glass tip and insert a string of lights such as those you put on the Christmas tree. The color of the bottle will increase the glare of the light adding atmosphere to the room.
CANDLE HOLDER
Simple and elegant, i candle holders made with wine bottles cut in half are an idea of Design Sponge. By following the tutorial you too can create, with the help of a kit for cutting bottles, unique and perfect candle holders to give a touch of warmth to your wooden table.
SHELVES
With a few glass bottles of the same size and a few wooden shelves you can have a truly original shelf. The idea comes from Zero Waste Design, a manufacturer of recycled furniture based in Glasgow. Here too you will also find instructions for building a perfect modular shelving unit at home, one of a kind!
TREES OF BOTTLES
Trees made from glass bottles can be interpreted as a hymn to beer or, if you like, a fantastic one eco friendly alternative to Christmas trees. The Christmas season is a long way off, we know, but we suggest you start collecting bottles now. If in fact you want to create a giant Christmas tree like the one made in Shanghai in 2009 with 1000 bottles of Heineken, it will be useful to start thinking about it in time!
GLASSES MADE WITH BEER BOTTLES
Some beer bottles are real works of art and it's a shame not to reuse them. By carefully following the tutorial of Instructables () you can make fantastic glasses to amaze your friends.
TORCE TIKI
The twisted Tiki in Bamboo aren't they for you? Here then is the solution that is proposed to us once again by Design Sponge. These are modern and minimal lamps made with common bottles of wine. They can be mounted on the wall and above all they are very economical.
CHANDELIER
Unless you're very good with soldering tools, this one chandelier-work of art it is not so easy to do with the do-it-yourself, but it is certainly proof of how the bottles that we normally throw in the bin for the glass collection, can have a new life!
BLACKBOARD VASES
Chalkboard paint turns any glass bottle into a cool vase that you can write and draw on over and over.
CAMPANELLINI
Another way to reuse old bottles is to turn them into originals BELL CHIMES. Again you will need a kit to cut the bottom of the bottle and then you will need some string, a wooden ball and a piece of beaten copper.
FEEDERS FOR BIRDS
Here is another way to recycle liquor bottles. Just hang the bottle on a hook and take a tube out of the neck that can be purchased on www.Amazon.com to have practical bird feeders.
SOLAR PANEL WITH BEER BOTTLES
Here's what he came up with Ma Yanju, a Chinese farmer from Shanxi province. To get thehot water in his mother's home he used 66 bottles of beer, connected with a series of small tubes, placed on a wooden board covered with aluminum foil. The table was placed on the roof in a northerly direction to capture as much sunlight as possible. The panel it provides enough hot water for all members of Ma's family, and many other families in the village have followed the example of the ingenious farmer.
HOUSE-BOTTLE
You read that right! It is a'home completely made with glass bottles instead of bricks. You can find it at Prince Edward Island, is ecologica, economic, unusual and if you are thinking of building one, on the site ehow.com you will find all the instructions.
BUDDHIST TEMPLE MADE WITH BEER BOTTLES
There are those who went further and were not satisfied with a house but even wanted a temple built with bottles! We are in the province of Sisaket, in Thailand, where some Buddhist monks have collected huge quantities of beer bottles Heineken and a local beer to create a complex of twenty buildings including a lives, prayer rooms, a sleeping area and even a crematorium! The temple is called Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew which means “the temple of a million bottles” and represents an example of recycling that we could define as divine!
Chiara Fornaro
