Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Repurposing: Wine Bottles

I don't know what your drink of choice for Easter is, but here in my country we drink red wine. And unless you make and bottle your own red wine, you're going to have heaps of bottles lying around the house these days.
Of course you can send them to be recycled, but why not re-purpose them? Same goes for beer/vodka/any other glass bottle you set your eyes on.
You can find a lot of diy bottle-cutting tutorials out there, but if you prefer the finished product without putting effort into it, then check this out:

is a company that makes a large assortment of new products out of old bottles.

What attracted me to their site were the tumblers and glasses.
6 for $48

one for $15

$30

Then I discovered an entire world of bottle goods:

Here are just a few objects:



The rest, you'll have to see for yourself. Check their website store or the etsy store.

Still, if you find it odd to pay for repurposing, then you'll just have to let your imagination and craftsmanship prevail. 

So, we've seen how to repurpose the bottles. How about the corks?
There's a large array of uses for corks and there's company that makes floors and more: 

From jelinek.com

This is me planning the cuts on my red wine bottles

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