After polishing off your next bottle of red wine, don’t toss it into the recycling bin just yet. Rather, use it to develop an unique lighting fixture that will look gorgeous displayed over your dining room table– or really throughout your home.
For this simple DIY task, we selected bottle in a pretty blue hue, which cast the best soft glow. Feel free to use any color that speaks with your home’s décor, however keep in mind that the more transparent the bottles are, the more light will be let through.
Another element of this craft where you can get creative is with the lighting fixture you select. We chose a black, three-light pendant that hangs from a single install. Any style, color, and number of lights will work so long as the wires are thin enough to thread through the tops of the bottles.
Provide wine bottles a 2nd life and utilize this tutorial to turn them into pendant lights.
Instructions
Cut off the bottoms of the bottles:
Wearing protective gloves and goggles, utilize a glass-cutting tool to score the bottom of the bottles. We utilized a glass bottle-cutting tool set, which is easily available and excellent for many DIY bottle projects.
Run the bottles under water: Alternate putting hot and cold water over the bottles where you made the cut up until the glass breaks.
Sand the edges: Pour water over very great sandpaper and run the cut side of the bottle over it to ravel the edges. Utilize a dremel to sand down any edges that are still sharp, if required.
Thread lights through the bottles:
Thread the wires of the light fixture through the tops of the bottles and protect them to the installing base. Screw the light bulbs into the light fixture and hang in an area of your choosing.
