10 Things To Do With Empty Glass Bottles

Empty wine, beer, whisky, vodka or any other kind of glass bottles invariably turn into water bottles.

Our guide will help you see them in a different light and create something more exciting and beautiful out of them. Read on…

Salt and pepper shakers

Out of those lovely, shapely Corona pints. You just have to drill some holes on the cap.

Bottle garden

Get a bottle of beer cut a little off centre, slightly towards its neck. Take a 2×2 inch screen, cut a small hole in its centre to pass a thick string through it. Place it inside the bottle, with the string hanging down its neck. The bottom half of the bottle will be the reservoir and the top half will be the planter. Transplant your herbs, with the screen acting as a base support. Fill a glass or glass jar half with water and place the planter bottle inside, making sure that the string touches the bottom of the glass. The string will act as a wick to draw water upto the plant and keep the soil moist enough for your herbs to grow.

Bottle art

On a frame, string together empty glass bottles of different shapes, sizes and colours to create an installation out of them. Place the artwork in your living room with your personal signature on it.

Centrepieces

Place those strings of tiny lights (the ones we use on Diwali to decorate) or thin strips of LED lights inside those gorgeous wine bottles and keep them on your centre or coffee table.   

Soap dispenser

Buy a soap pump top, drill a hole in the bottle cap to fix in the pump, fill it up with liquid soap and it’s done.

Candle hurricane

Cut the top and bottom of a wine bottle. Use a wire to create a small holder for a tea light or a pillar candle.

Crafty vases

Just cut off the necks of wine bottles, fill with some water and insert all your favourite flowers.

Fancy lighting

Place a tinted tissue paper inside wide-mouthed bottles. Keep a flameless (battery operated) candle inside each and line them up your sideway before a party.

Wind chime

Gather three bottles that will nest inside each other – large, medium and small. Cut them off centre, towards the necks. Take three beads, big enough to be able to stuck inside the bottles, just before the neck starts and shouldn’t come out. Take a durable string, tie a thick knot at one end and pass the rest through one bead. Take the string through the neck of the smallest bottle, then through the second bead and the neck of the bigger bottle and finally through the third bead and the neck of the biggest bottle. Pull the string so that you have the three bottles nestles into one another, and hang it. Instead of the beads, you can also you the wine cork.

Colourful pigments

Gather a lot of empty glass bottles and fill each with a pigment of different colour. Place them together against a wall or on a flat platform for that conversational art piece in your home.