These wine bottle wall vases (via Dude Craft) are proof that the interwebs occasionally echo with good ideas. A variation on the wine bottle tiki torches I linked to earlier, you can make the hangers with parts from the plumbing isle. See Design Sponge for instructions on the torch version. Having seen two houses catch on fire in our neighborhood this year, I’d recommend the flower vase.
I’ve seen this before and they definitely are cute!
The vases are very cool – but for some reason, the Dudecraft link goes to the torches, not the vases. I found it eventually:
http://www.dudecraft.com/2010/11/wine-bottle-wall-vase.html
Very pretty, and a nice alternative to lighting the neighborhood on fire. Do you put water in the vases, and if so, how easy is it to empty them?
Sally–thanks for catching the error.
Hmmm…I’m wondering how you ever clean those bottles out. You know how gunky a flower vase can get. You’d need a bottle brush and some patience. It’s a beautiful idea, but it strikes me that “dudes” never scrub out flower vases.
Cute! Fake flowers maybe?
I am feeling really silly, but I cannot find a functioning link (including the one above) that takes me to instructions for how to make these. As I have not seen the instructions, I am just guessing here, but it looks to me as if the tension holding the bottle could be loosened, thereby allowing the bottle to be removed and cleaned. If anyone can send a link to the instructions I would love to make one!
Hey Anon:
Erik fixed the link in the post–the link labeled “Design Sponge” goes to instructions. I just tested it. This is the link as well:
http://www.designspongeonline.com/2009/08/diy-project-eriks-recycled-wine-bottle-torch.html
Its great.I really appreciate you.Thanks for giving this idea.
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