6 Shockingly Simple DIY Lights Made From Wine Bottles - Page 2 of 2

These repurposed wine bottles are the best way to combine your favorite drink with creativity. You won't find these lighting fixtures at any common furniture store and you can customize them to match your home's colors and style. If you don't drink wine, you can replace the bottles with other similar-sized liquor bottles or ask friends and family for theirs. Many of these ideas work both indoors and outdoors and they're easily movable from room to room!

LIGHT IT UP TURN IT INTO A LAMP

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One of the ways in which an empty wine bottle can help in adorning a home is turning itself into a LED lamp. To function as such a wine bottle, an AA batter box, 2 AA batteries and a glass cutting drill bit to make a hole near the bottom of the bottle for power cable to pass will be required.

Typically white LED lights are used to make such lamps, but other colorful variants can be used instead should the bottle be white. If the former is chosen, the color of the light will depend on the bottle color, and in the later case on the color of LED lights placed in the bottle. For example, the bottle used in the above image is blue so the light that comes out is blue, whereas, light looks more yellowish and greenish in yellow and green bottles, as shown below.

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Decorating these bottles using ribbons, flowers or any other decorative items will make them look even classier.

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MAKE A COLORFUL PENDANT LIGHT

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Making a pendant light with wine bottles is trickier than the one suggested above, but the reward is so beautiful that it is worth the effort. The most challenging part of the process is cutting the wine bottles. Just having a bottle cutter kit will not make the process easy. It will need some practice to get the precision. The following video and the link serve as a useful guide on how to cut a wine bottle.

The next step in the process is to paint the bottle from the inside to get a colorful set of evenly cut and sandpapered wine bottles. The step is followed by adding wires, bulbs, bulb holders and plug to complete the wine bottle pendent light or chandelier.

As mentioned above, cutting wine bottles is a challenging task, so many will not venture towards cutting more than one or two bottles. In such cases, the following kind of wine bottle pendant light can be made. It works when used alone as well. The outer surface of the empty bottles can be embellished with paint or copper wires could be wrapped around randomly to give it a rugged look.

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HURRICANE CANDLES WITH EMPTY WINE BOTTLES

It is about doubling the empty bottle as hurricane candle. This also involves cutting wine bottles to size. However, do not cut it in half, as suggested above. Only the bottom of the wine bottle should be removed to make a hurricane candle. It is always better that 3 or more similar wine bottles of one color be used to make a set of hurricane candles to make it look beautiful,two of which should be cut in an equal size. Two or more inches from the bottom should be sliced to get two long ones and the third one should be cut in half to get the smaller one for a set of 3 hurricane candles. If the bottle is sliced with precision, the bottom half can also be used as well to make candles, as suggested in the advice on making candles.

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EMPTY WINE BOTTLES DOUBLING AS CITRONELLA TIKI TORCH

Insects and mosquitoes make it difficult for people to enjoy the calm summer breeze in the outdoor garden in the evening unless one re-purposes wine bottles for that. This does not sound intuitive, but empty wine bottles can double as an outdoor light source and also function as mosquito and insect repellent if used as citronella tiki torches. Making a citronella candle tiki torch is simple and does not require much equipment. The video following this paragraph shows the way to make a basic one. One can always decorate the bottle to make it look more attractive. The least one can think of is filling the bottom of the bottle with colorful pebbles, as shown in the two images following the video.