When a person has free time and imagination, any unnecessary thing will turn into a work of art. Many “skillful hands” use crafts from plastic bottles as elements, as well as in the form of furniture. From colored bottle caps you can make mosaic panels, which cover the surfaces of walls, paths, fences.
The range of creative possibilities is so wide that you often don’t know where to start. We will help you understand what is suitable specifically in your case and what crafts to decorate the empty space with.
Application of plastic bottles
After several attempts to make a souvenir from a plastic bottle with your own hands, your one-night hobby will grow into a full-fledged hobby. It's so simple and accessible! There is practical and decorative use products from plastic bottles.
Practical- This:
- storage containers,
- feeders,
- stands,
- plant containers,
- furniture
and even carports, greenhouses, washbasins, Summer shower etc.
Crafts from plastic bottles - this and homemade furniture . The seemingly complex design is quite simple to make. The only condition is that there must be many bottles of the same type available. Hand-made armchairs, sofas and ottomans are not inferior in comfort to classic factory furniture.
How to make an ottoman from plastic bottles: master class
Decoratively homemade plastic bottles have a wider scope:
- figures made from plastic bottles;
- lamps;
- flowers
- garlands, etc.
They have one important advantage - the availability of material. At the same time, products made from PET bottles are highly reliable, provided correct connection details.
Often made from plastic bottles vases, pots and flowers.
In addition, using plastic containers, you can original decorate the room by making an artificial bouquet. Roses, tulips or daisies are placed in a homemade vase. If desired, the composition is designed LED lighting. Thus, an impromptu flower will turn into an unusual night light.
What can you make from plastic bottles for your yard?
There is always an empty plot in a dacha. Building a gazebo or an extension is long and difficult, but the “bare”, uncluttered area just “hurts” the eye. Crafts made from plastic bottles for the street will help decorate your courtyard. Using plastic bottles, caps and frames, make beautiful tables with chairs. Such garden furniture It will be easy to surprise guests during a festive feast in nature.
In products made from plastic bottles included and bird feeders, which will not only decorate your summer cottage, but also help birds survive in the winter.
Ideas from plastic bottles: lamps made from caps
From the caps and cut necks, with the help of simple manipulations, they come out original lamps , which will decorate both the interior of the house and the yard. Unusual lamps are harmoniously complemented by plastic compositions decorated in the form of exotic plants.
Learn to collect simple crafts from plastic bottles possible within 2-3 hours. Go for it!
Crafts from 5 liter plastic bottles
The bulky-looking container is also suitable for decorating the interior or yard. Large plastic bottles are often used to make pet figurines(pigs, bulls, dogs, etc.). Crafts from 5 liter PET bottles - a common decoration for cottages, flower beds and playgrounds. Therefore, there are many ideas for using them, and the most striking examples of products made from plastic bottles are collected on our website. simple but tasteful.
Use of 5 liter plastic bottles: master class
The amount of garbage that each person “produces” is growing every year. The problem is becoming global as flying plastic bags and the plastic bottles lying everywhere have become an eyesore for everyone. I’m grieving, it turns out that you can help, and even for your own benefit. In any case, this applies to plastic bottles. You will be surprised how diverse and, importantly, useful crafts You can make one from plastic bottles in just a few minutes. Well, or a watch... Depends on the scale.
The buildings
PET (polyethylene terephthalate) is a thermoplastic from which bottles are made. It will be useful to know its physical properties:
- density - 1.38-1.4 g/cm³,
- softening temperature (t size) - 245 °C,
- melting temperature (t pl.) - 260 °C,
- glass transition temperature (t st.) - 70 °C,
- decomposition temperature - 350 °C.
Plastic bottles are very convenient to use, but are harmful to the environment, since the polyethylene from which they are made takes more than 200 years to decompose. This same property allows the use of almost waste raw materials as construction material. Craftsmen already even build houses from plastic bottles, as well as sheds, dachas, greenhouses, greenhouses, and fences. Worked out various technologies- the approach is quite serious.
How to build a house from plastic bottles
The main idea is to pour into bottles bulk material, screw them on with lids and use them as bricks. Fill the bottles with sand and soil. Sand is preferable, since there is too much in the soil plant residues which may rot. It must be sifted, dried, filled into bottles, compacted well, and topped up. The result is a kind of brick.
To build a house from plastic bottles, you will need a solution that fills the gaps between the “bricks”. There are options here too. This can be a regular mortar, which is used when laying brick walls, or you can make a clay mortar. To keep the “bricks” in the wall until the mortar sets, they are tied with twine on the side of the lids. Later, these “grids” will come in handy when you plaster the walls. They turn out uneven, so you can’t do without leveling.
We make a greenhouse, barn, greenhouse
You can build a greenhouse or greenhouse from plastic bottles. In this case, only transparent plastic is used, since it is necessary for sufficient light to pass through. For the construction of a shed, on the contrary, it makes sense to choose darker plastic - it will be less visible what’s inside.
The first technology - one to one
The second requirement for bottles as a building material is an even shape. This one, you know, without recesses. Otherwise, folding the walls so that they retain heat will not work - it will “siphon” into the curly cutouts. Remove labels from bottles and dry. You also need to prepare pins or rods - bottles are strung on them. Their diameter is small so that the neck passes freely. Now you can start building a greenhouse/shed from plastic bottles.
To build a greenhouse or shed, pillars are dug in the corners. Frames are assembled from timber according to the size of the walls. These frames will be the base for the bottle walls. We collect them (frames) on the ground and in finished form We attach it to the dug-in pillars. When you make the frames, don't forget the doorway and windows.
We build a frame, cut off the bottom of the bottles, and string them onto a pin. From such “columns” we assemble walls, roof
The construction process begins with cutting the bottom. We string the cut bottles onto pins, pointing the necks in one direction. We insert the bottles with force so that they become very tight. Having collected a number required height, attach it to the frame. You can fasten it with clamps, strips cut from metal, nails... In any way available to you. We press the second row against the first so that there is a slight deformation. We fasten it in this position. So, row by row, we assemble all the walls, then the roof.
Using the same technology you can make a gazebo. But here there is no need for tightness, so you can collect shaped and colored containers. This will make it even more interesting (example in the photo).
Second technology - sewing plastic
Bottles will also need to be smooth, transparent or yellow. They cut them out central part, obtaining a square-shaped piece of plastic. The pieces are sewn together into long strips. In the strip, the pieces are placed so that they curl in one direction. Then the strips are sewn into canvases. To make the canvas even, the strips are positioned so that they curl in different sides. As a result, they equalize each other. The finished canvases are nailed to the frame. At this point the construction of their greenhouse plastic bottles over.
This type of “cladding” for greenhouses withstands winters well; it does not need to be removed. Due to the firmware (many small holes), there is no absolute tightness, which allows you to regulate humidity. You won’t be able to heat such a greenhouse, but it will delay autumn for you and speed up the arrival of spring.
You can sew plastic for a greenhouse by hand, but it is not easy. It will be easier for those who have non-capricious Sewing machines. Old Podolsk machines cope with this task. There may be problems with others.
Fence and enclosure
You can make a fence from plastic bottles different ways. If you need a serious monolithic fence, you can use bottles as bricks. The technology is the same as when building a house. To avoid plaster (after all, there is a high risk that it will collapse) - select the color of the plastic to obtain the required Rusinka. But in this case you will have to look for “building materials” of the same diameter or from different sizes lay out patterns. In general, the process is creative, no matter how you look at it.
You can also make filling for the fence from plastic bottles. Make a frame, say, from wood, and come up with a beautiful filling from shaped containers and their parts.
Furniture from scrap materials: recycling plastic bottles
Not only can you make a house and a fence from plastic bottles, they are also used as the basis for upholstered furniture. The idea is to use plastic containers rather than wood for the frame. With the lids screwed tightly on, they have a high bearing capacity, and assembled into blocks, they are quite capable of withstanding loads of up to 100 kg or more.
A bed made of plastic bottles... needed good mattress, and the base is not too difficult to make
Although the furniture is made differently, the general algorithm of actions is the same:
- Select “building material” that is the same height and tighten the lids well.
- Collecting blocks the right size, fastening them with tape.
- Having assembled the base of the required shape, sew the cover. For softness, adding furniture foam.
The trick is to ensure that the bottles fit very tightly against each other and do not move. The slightest play can lead to destruction of the structure. Therefore, assemble the blocks slowly, carefully securing them. You can stack bottles in layers, securing each layer in several places. For the inner layers, it is better to use double-sided tape - the fixation will be more reliable.
Ottomans/banquettes
The easiest way is to make an ottoman or banquette from plastic bottles. We proceed in the order described above. You need to find bottles of the same height. It’s better if they are the same shape - it’s easier to assemble. From plastic containers with tightly screwed lids we assemble a base in the form of a cylinder. It is advisable that the radius of the base be greater than the height of the bottles - this way the bench will not tip over.
Next, you need to cut out two circles from fiberboard, which will be slightly larger than the resulting radius of the base - this is the “bottom” and the base of the seat. We secure them with tape. We take furniture foam rubber and, according to the obtained dimensions, cut out the necessary parts. We sew the cover from furniture fabric in a color that matches the interior.
Such a banquette can be not only round. It is quite possible to make it square. And so that this furniture is not too light, it can be made heavier by pouring water. But water is not very reliable. It's better to pour sand. Both heavier and more reliable.
Sofas, chairs, armchairs
If you need furniture higher than one bottle, proceed as when creating walls for a house. Find “material” of the same shape and height. Leave the first bottle intact, screw the cap tightly (you can add sand to prevent it from turning over). The bottom of the other is cut off and one is placed on top of the other. The bottle goes a certain distance and does not move further, no matter how much effort you make. If the resulting height is enough, great; if not, put on the next one. This is how you assemble rows of the required height, then fasten them into blocks.
There is another way. It is more reliable in the sense that the bottles are not held by compressed air, but due to mechanical stop. And they have double walls, which is also important. Disadvantage - more work, more raw materials are needed. The whole process is illustrated step by step.
- Take the bottle and cut it approximately in the middle of the height (the upper part with the neck is smaller).
- We insert the upper part of the neck (the lid is screwed on) until it stops into the lower part.
- We take a whole one, the same size and shape, and insert it bottom down into the prepared structure.
- We cut the third approximately in half and put the lower part on the top (with a lid).
From such modules we assemble blocks of the required configuration, fastening them with tape. Don't skimp on scotch tape. You can first fasten two bottles together, then assemble larger blocks from the double ones.
As you understand, with this technology there are a lot of bottle tops left (half of the third bottle). They can be used to make other crafts from plastic bottles: flowers, more practical things for the household.
Flower making methods
The most common crafts made from plastic bottles are garden figurines and flowers. About garden figurines read There are other interesting ideas, but there are a lot of collected interesting animals and insects. And we’ll tell you about flowers made from plastic bottles below - these are probably the crafts made from plastic bottles that bring the most pleasure. The process is simple, there are a lot of possibilities, the result is amazing.
You've probably noticed that the bottom of a PET bottle looks like a flower. All you have to do is find the bottle beautiful color, cut off the bottom of it. Now you have a nice flower. In the middle you can add petals cut from the central part, a core from plastic strips cut into noodles, or glue beads inside, but more on that in a little more detail.
Using the power of fire
To work, you will need a marker, a lighter or a candle (it’s more convenient with a candle). If available, take pliers, tweezers or pliers to hold the workpiece while processing. You will also need acrylic paints, glue and beads may be needed. The entire manufacturing process comes down to a few steps:
There are a lot of options here. Just start doing it. It may not work out perfectly right away, but you will understand what and how you can fix it. Check out some more pictures from step by step photos process of making flowers from plastic bottles.
The simplest
For beginner crafters, you can try making flowers from plastic bottles in simple shapes to decorate the garden. In this case, you can also use milk containers. To avoid painting plastic, look for colored ones. And it doesn’t matter so much whether they are transparent or not. They can be combined to produce flowers of different shapes.
To create such flowers, use the part near the neck. It is cut to form petals. Next - warm it up a little, giving the desired bend to the petals, a little paint, the core from a melted piece with a thread (a bottle of a smaller diameter, a pharmacy bottle will do). So it turned out to be a buttercup.
Another option is to cut from the neck into strips of equal width - 1-1.5 cm, bend them (warm up a little at the base). Make a middle whisk from the side of a milk bottle or paint clear plastic with acrylic paint.
The middle is any bright. Here is a piece of cork, but you can cut it into thin noodles, roll it up and then heat it. You will get a shaggy core.
It's all about the form... Despite the imperfections, they decorate the site
The topic is actually inexhaustible. A variety of flowers are made from plastic bottles. From simple and uncomplicated to very realistic. It's not so much a matter of skill as it is different tastes and desires.
Useful ideas for the home
PET containers turned out to be so good material that they make a lot of useful things. In this section we have collected useful crafts made from plastic bottles that can be used around the house.
For the kitchen and more
If you cut off the bottom of a bottle with a capacity of 2–3 liters, you get a bowl or a bowl, and so that its edges are even, they can be melted on a heated iron. But so that you don’t have to clean the sole later, use a special silicone pad. If you don't have one, you can do this through a sheet of baking parchment.
Container for food. The plastic is food grade...
From the same bottle we cut off the threaded part. There should be 1-2 cm of plastic left around the thread (we melt the edges using a well-known technology). Now it won’t be difficult to seal any package hermetically: we pass it through the cut neck, wrap it outward, and screw on the lid.
The bottom of the bottles attached to the bar makes an excellent newspaper shelf (photo on the right). You can also store umbrellas.
From plastic cut into strips you can weave different shapes containers. Bottles need an even shape, with thick walls. They are cut into strips of a certain thickness. You need to cut in a spiral - the result is quite long strips. If their length is not enough, they are sewn perfectly.
Lampshades
You can even make a lampshade, but under one condition: you will use similar crafts from plastic bottles in lamps - only they hardly heat up. Plastic is incompatible with other lamps. We will describe three ways to make a lampshade from a plastic bottle.
First. You need a large capacity bottle. We draw it into strips of equal width. At the beginning and at the end of each strip, we make holes with a heated soldering iron or a nail heated on fire. We insert scissors into this hole and cut. The result is smooth stripes.
When the strips are cut, we also make a hole in the bottom, pass a thick fishing line through the neck, bring it out through the hole in the bottom, with reverse side we attach the decor. Maybe a button, maybe a pebble suitable color. Now, by pulling the fishing line, we get an interesting shaped lampshade. You can put a low power light bulb in it.
Another lampshade was made using a similar technology. But then they cut part of the bottle with the neck into strips, wrapped the strips and secured them to the neck. To give the desired shape The bend area can be slightly warmed over the flame of a candle or lighter. We attach the resulting “flowers” to the base. So we get an unusual design.
They also make lampshades from the bottoms. Need to find sufficient quantity identical bottles, cut off the bottom of them, glue them together using universal glue (choose transparent). The main thing is that it glues the plastic and hardens quickly.
Flower vases
Making a vase from a plastic bottle - what could be easier... Just cut off the neck and you're done. But there is a technique that allows you to get patterned walls. You will need a soldering iron with the thinnest tip possible. Its power should not be too high. Then everything is simple: use a heated tip to burn out the patterns.
Magically! To make the drawing appear brighter, take acrylic paint and paint the resulting beauty. The paint can be in a regular can, but it’s faster and more convenient to work with a spray can.
These are the options...
Photo ideas
Crafts from plastic bottles is such a broad topic that it is impossible to talk about everything. What’s nice is that if you know a few tricks, you can easily find out how and what to do just by looking at photographs. So here we have collected a few ideas that we found interesting.
You can even make a boat...
And this is just decoration...
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You can make many useful things for your garden and dacha from plastic bottles
While lovingly arranging our city dwellings, we are no less touching about our summer cottages. We try to improve them, create comfortable conditions for ourselves and add special notes of attractiveness to the even rows of beds and berry bushes. Many summer residents have chosen the most accessible and flexible material for their creative experiments - ordinary plastic bottles. We will talk further about what products can be made from it for the garden and dacha!
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Manufacturing idea useful devices and decorative things made from plastic containers are not new. The first attempts led our grandparents to build low fences for paths. Having appreciated the plasticity and low cost of the material, craftsmen from among the people moved on. And now the summer cottages are decorated with full-fledged fences, funny figures and unusual devices made from plastic bottles.
Your children will definitely like this beautiful ostrich from a pet container!
Thanks to imagination and such excellent material as plastic bottles, we have almost limitless possibilities for creating crafts for every taste, any complexity and direction
Paintings made from the caps of plastic bottles and other containers have grown into an entire art movement.
Plastic bottles have long been in great demand among gardeners
Gorgeous orange flowers from pet containers
Crafts and decorations for the cottage and garden made from plastic bottles do not require the use of complex tools and specialized skills. The main thing is to have time and desire, as well as enough material. Those who have had both have convincingly proven the limitless possibilities of such needlework, and we have prepared a review best examples crafts.
DIY furniture, flowerpots and a vase made from a plastic bottle
Comfortable and very stylish chair made from plastic bottles
A sheet of plywood, sixteen one and a half liter bottles, adhesive tape - and a comfortable and durable coffee table will appear on your site. Plywood can be replaced with plastic or hardboard, an old countertop or plexiglass. From the same materials, slightly changing the design, you can make a garden bench. Some diligent and patient craftsmen manage to assemble full-fledged sofas and armchairs from bottles.
You can even make the basis for a full-fledged sofa from plastic bottles if you fasten them firmly and carefully
Hanging flowerpot or base for flowerpots
DIY ottoman made from plastic bottles
How to make a pouf from pet containers
House made of plastic bottles
Among the summer residents there are also real builders who know that they can build whatever their heart desires from plastic bottles. They collect gazebos, toilets, sheds and even from plastic bottles. The only difficulty with such structures is not in their assembly, but in assembling them required quantity bottles
House with a roof made of 7,000 bottles
Plastic bottles are a good base material for building the walls of a summer house, greenhouse, shower, toilet or other partitions
Greenhouse walls made of containers on a wooden frame
Bottoms from plastic bottles will help you decorate garlands for the garden
Children's playground: flowers made from plastic bottles and toys made from plastic bottles
Crafts made from plastic bottles will help decorate the playground
All kinds of crafts made from plastic bottles are especially attractive for decorating a children's playground. Absolutely safe, they can become the basis for toys, fun decorations, and for creating story compositions. Funny elephants, bees, bunnies and hedgehogs, bright flowers, cheerful lanterns will turn the country island of childhood into a fairy-tale kingdom.
A whole plot for a children's playground from the caps of plastic bottles and canisters
Together with children, you can make small crafts and large plot mosaics from the caps of plastic bottles
Plastic bottle doll
Examples of a variety of crafts that will help the gardener with placement, easy transportation and care of plants
Piglets from large plastic bottles - stable stands for germinating seedlings or small plants
Craft for garden or lawn decor: parrot from pet container
Crafts for the garden and useful little things
Multi-colored turtles will be an excellent element of your garden decor.
With what ease the “crazy” hands of summer residents transform used plastic containers into useful summer cottage devices, you can see by walking through suburban areas. Here, on the trunk of a tree, a washbasin was nestled comfortably, and in the next yard, the gazebo was decorated with multi-colored, fragrant and ampelous geraniums. We have also prepared for you several descriptions of crafts made from plastic bottles for the garden.
DIY bird made from plastic bottles
DIY painted garden owl lanterns
Birdhouse made from a plastic bottle
It’s very easy to make a birdhouse from a plastic bottle
Plastic bottles cut in half will become cute flower pots; it is important to carefully paint them. It is also advisable to take opaque bottles for this.
The ever-tangling and stuck twine for tying seedlings will stop tormenting you if you hide the ball in a plastic bottle. Just cut the bottle in the middle, insert a ball into the top, pass the end of the twine into the neck, connect the parts, secure the cut with tape - and your convenient storage is ready.
Drip irrigation from plastic bottles
Your seedlings will not wither, even if you go away for several days: install semi-automatic watering. Once again, plastic bottles come into play. We cut off the bottom of the bottle, about 2/3, drill 4-8 holes in the cork, close the neck, bury the bottle upside down, pour water - and the seedlings are provided with moisture during your absence. A similar garden made from plastic bottles (photo confirms this) will significantly save your time and money.
Automatic watering "Aquasolo" - these are conical nozzles on a bottle with a thread that do not require wasting time on drilling slots, digging into the ground, and so on.
Anthurium with a convenient system automatic watering"Aquasolo"
Maximum space saving: plastic bottles suspended one above the other with a cut tube with water passing through them
- For the same seedlings, plastic bottles make excellent containers. After cutting the bottle in half and taking the bottom, pour the prepared substrate into it, plant the plants and place them on a shelf made of wooden planks. This design is also suitable for decorating your home with flowers.
Beautiful hanging pots made from plastic bottles will not only decorate the interior, but also make it unique
Excellent flowerpot made from a shampoo bottle with your own hands
Arrangement of compact placement of seedlings or small plants at the dacha
Bird feeder made from a plastic bottle
Some crafts made from plastic bottles for the garden amaze the owners with their ingenuity. By placing a bottle on a hose and making many holes in the bottom, you will get an excellent diffuser for watering your garden. From a five-liter container you can build an elegant lamp for the veranda, and a container from under mineral water Suitable as a bird feeder.
Bird feeder made of plastic container
A simple and convenient hose sprayer for garden watering
- Plastic bottles will help you save trees from pests. Cut the bottle lengthwise into two halves, fill it with a mixture that is attractive to pests and add insecticides, and bury it at the base of the trunk.
- From bottles you can make a magnificent decorative all-weather and all-season flower bed. Just paint the bottoms of the bottles different colors and make a wonderful carpet out of them, sticking their open side into the ground. The carpet pattern can be pre-reproduced on paper.
Decorating flower beds with pet containers has become very popular
- One Brazilian engineer did the calculations and built a solar collector from plastic bottles. The structure can be placed on a summer cottage, connected to a storage tank, and you will always have a warm shower.
Device solar collector from plastic bottles
Automatic watering of seedlings and ornamental plants in your absence, using a plastic bottle dug next to the roots with small holes drilled in the neck or cap
Suspended one above the other, cut plastic containers– the fastest and most economical way out of a situation when you need to germinate a lot of seedlings in a limited space
Making an owl from a plastic bottle with your own hands
Bottles for germination and winter holding of plants - an opportunity to save space and ensure good irrigation and drainage
Products made from plastic bottles: artistic masterpieces
Magnificent dandelions from pet containers will never cease to delight you and your guests
The imagination of folk craftsmen is so diverse that it leads to the appearance of summer cottages and strange animals, and characters from fairy tales and cartoons, and exotic plants, and original thematic compositions.
We cover the bottom of a plastic bottle or cup with dry twigs and get an unusual candlestick, protected from the wind.
Rainbow decor for a garden, workshop, garage: a fountain of spirals cut from multi-colored plastic bottles
Plastic bottles are used not only to decorate the garden, but also to decorate the home.
Country crafts from plastic bottles:
If you have a small pond on your site, you can arrange it plastic palm. It's not at all difficult to make. You will need:
- 10-15 brown plastic bottles (for the palm trunk);
- 5-6 green bottles (preferably long);
- iron or willow rod;
- an awl or drill for making holes;
- sharp knife or scissors for cutting bottles.
A palm tree made from plastic bottles looks very beautiful
Now let's start making the decoration.
- Cut all the brown bottles in half. We take the lower parts and use an awl to make holes in the bottom of each of them, equal in size to the diameter of the rod.
Advice! You can also take the tops of the bottles, then you won’t have to make additional holes.
- For green bottles, cut off the bottom by about 1 cm. Leave one of the blanks with a neck, cut it off for the rest to make a loop.
- Carefully cut the green bottles lengthwise into three equal parts up to the loop.
Making palm leaves
- We cut out the edges of the brown parts with jagged edges to create an imitation of a rough palm tree trunk.
- We securely fix the rod in the soil. We calculate the length of the rod by laying out the brown parts on the ground in one row, plus 2-3 cm for the leaves.
We put brown bottles on it. 
Making a trunk for a palm tree
- We string our leaves onto the free top of the rod, finishing the work with a blank with a neck. We make a hole in the lid and screw it onto last page, securely securing the entire crown.
Connection of trunk and leaves
Assembling a palm tree from plastic bottles
Using several rods of different lengths, you can create a real oasis. As you can see, making garden crafts from plastic bottles with your own hands is not so difficult; the main thing is to find a sufficient amount of material and take one of the proposed ideas as a basis.
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Crafts for the garden from plastic bottle caps
You can create real masterpieces from plastic lids
Don't throw away bottle caps. Decorative crafts made from caps from plastic bottles for the cottage and garden can also be beautifully integrated into its landscape. They will serve excellent mosaic material for decorating fences and walls of a country house.
Bright compositions made from plastic lids will help make your landscape design more fun
Video master class (from plastic bottles of standard capacity):
A path made of plastic covers is not only economical, but also very beautiful
Large-scale red and blue mosaic of caps of different sizes
Having tinkered a little with the pattern, painted and drilled holes in the sides of the covers, you can use them to assemble a curtain for the door. An excellent option for protection against insects!
Lids can also be turned into beautiful table top, and into a practical doormat. Use them for decorative finishing internal space.
Gorgeous door curtains made from plastic covers
Carport that diffuses sunlight
Beautiful lanterns in Hawaiian style
Before starting work, remove the labels from the bottles and wash the container thoroughly.
For stability vertical structures fill the bottles with sand or small pebbles.
Dragonflies made from corrugated plastic bottles
An ingenious device for collecting fruit from trees
Hanging pots made from pet containers with images of animals will fit perfectly into the interior of a children's room
Choose plastic bottles of different softness for crafts. For example, for the body of a dog or elephant, take a strong base, but for the ears it is better to use softer plastic.
Master class from plastic bottles (step by step):
In any home or family, especially after the holidays, they accumulate glass bottles, but you don’t always want to throw them away. And there is no need to do this. In this article we will look at what can be made from empty and beautiful glass bottles.
What can you make from bottles for your home?
Today many bottles have non-standard shape and their variety is very great. Make useful ones decorative crafts from glass bottles with your own hands, which will add zest to your interior or exterior of the house and the bottles will no longer be just garbage for you. From empty glass bottles you can make stylish vases, all kinds of candlesticks, chandeliers, glasses, magnificent flower vases, terrariums for plants, hedges, interestingly decorate flower beds in the country and much more, as long as your imagination is enough.
Just before you give empty glass bottles a second wind, you need to decide what you want to do and choose a range of possibilities. Crafts made from glass bottles can be divided into two large groups:
- Interior– this group includes crafts for filling interior space and creating a positive mood (chandeliers, stands, vases, candlesticks and much more).
- Exterior– a group of crafts to create coziness at the dacha, in country house(paths, fences, etc.)
Vase made of bottles
The simplest and most beautiful thing in the interior is a flower vase. Vases with flowers create coziness and warm atmosphere in the house. They can be placed anywhere, on tables, on the floor, on shelves. Whole bottle- a ready-made flower vase. There are many ways to decorate a bottle.
Vase made of bottles. Acrylic painting method
Manufacturing process:
- To do this, take a beautiful wine bottle of an unusual shape, cover it with acrylic or oil paint(e.g. white), apply a second coat of paint if necessary. Complete Guide How
- Then take a beautiful lace, 10 centimeters wide and glue it to the bottom of the bottle. (see photo).
- Remained finishing touch, put flowers in a vase. And your home will shine with tenderness.
Vases can also be not only tabletop, but also wall-mounted. Do wooden base, attaching it to the wall, and placing a vase of flowers in the middle of it.
Set of vases for table decor
Wall vase
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Candlestick
No lamp that emits artificial light gives such a romantic effect as the light of a smoldering candle. Candle fire can make the atmosphere of any room more mysterious and exciting, but at the same time more calm and cozy. The most ideal solution will make an individual candlestick with your own hands.
Candlesticks from a bottle
Candlesticks made from clear bottles
The easiest way to make a candlestick from the bottom halves of bottles. To do this you need to cut the bottle. How to cut a glass bottle? There are several options. Most often, a special machine or glass cutter is used, but not everyone has such tools in their home. Therefore, at home, glass can be cut using a burning thread.
To do this, you need to thoroughly moisten a middle rope in acetone (or nail polish remover), wrap it around the bottle in the place where you need to cut it, set it on fire, and then sharply dip it into ice water (water/ice = 1/1). Step by step.
Candlestick from the bottom of a bottle
You will get an absolutely even cut. Then use an emery wheel or waterproof sandpaper to sand the edges so they are smooth. When working, be sure to follow safety precautions.
Manufacturing process:
- After you cut the bottle, melt the paraffin in a water bath.
- Then take a piece of wick, put it in the lower part of the bottle, securing it with a dry piece of paraffin, and fill it with melted paraffin, while securing the wick in place with something. We leave it until completely dry(1-2 hours). That's all, our wonderful candle is ready for use.
- Or simply insert a thick candle into the bottom of a glass bottle for another great candle.
Wine bottle chandelier
If you are tired of old lampshades, then another variety for your home will be one made from glass wine bottles with your own hands.
It is necessary to cut off the bottom of the wine bottle, and we use this bottle as a lampshade; you just need to carefully fix the socket with the light bulb. It is also possible not to limit yourself to just one lampshade, but to make a whole royal chandelier in the same way, which will decorate your room and fit perfectly into your interior, especially in a country house.
Do you want to make such a lamp? — Below are 3 detailed and step-by-step lessons!
Chic chandelier made from bottles
The finished cartridge with wiring is inserted into the cut bottle
Rustic chandelier
Dishes
The simplest and most popular crafts to make from glass bottles are various elements of tableware. If you want the products flat dishes with your own hands, you need to go to a workshop, where at high temperatures, it will be given a different shape.
Although there is an easy way to make a plate at home, as mentioned above. And your plate is ready to use.
Original serving of food in a plate from a bottle
Sweet plates
To make a plate for sweets, you need to:
- take a tray or an old plastic plate,
- do it in the middle round hole, and put it on the neck of the bottle.
- the bottle can be decorated various elements decor (paint, beads, stones and much more)
Original dessert plate
Jars for bulk products
By cutting off the neck of the bottle and sanding the edges, you will get an original jar for bulk products. Which will delight you with its appearance when preparing various dishes.
Jars for storing bulk products. You can use a cork or foam ball as a lid.
Mug
Already knowing the principle of cutting a bottle, you can try to make a glass mug, just remember to carefully process the edges. To do this, you need to cut off the bottom of the bottle and separately the very top of the neck, then glue the neck to the bottom as a handle liquid nails and your glass is ready.
Glass bottle mug
Whiskey bottle soap dispenser
Bottles beautiful shape will serve as a dispenser for liquid soap. This option will certainly look original in your bathroom.
- To portray such beauty and practicality, instead of a cork, attach a pump or nozzle for liquid soap or dishwashing detergent that was left over from the used one.
- You can secure the nozzle with liquid nails or select a bottle with a suitable thread.
- If you want to leave the label and prevent it from getting wet from water, cover it with clear varnish.
Done, you can already enjoy.
Whiskey bottle soap dispenser
Wine bottle shelves
Using glass bottles as supports for wooden shelving– this is just a wonderful idea. Hollow bottles are incredibly strong and easily hold wooden planks. To do this, just make several holes in the wooden planks, connecting them together with bottles, and your book house is ready.
Bottle storage shelf
Hangers and hooks
Glass wine bottles will find their use in the hallway if they turn into an unusual original hanger. This idea was first introduced by Lucirmás in Milan. On the one hand, this is art, and at the same time, it is a useful thing.
Manufacturing:
- To make a hanger we will need wine bottles with a long neck.
- It is necessary to cut them at such an angle that they are at the required slope on the wall.
- Then we attach a mirror or glass base to the wall and glue our neck using liquid nails.
If it was not possible to glue it carefully and the glue is visible, the base can be decorated with cord.
DIY designer bottle hanger
Glass bottle tables
Same as for making shelves, you will need a board of the shape and size that you would like your table to be.
Coffee table made from bottles
Sample board for a table made from bottles
Drill holes for the necks of the bottle and insert them. And your table will certainly delight not only you, but also your guests with its originality.
Exterior
Planting original DIY crafts can decorate not only the interior of your home, but also the exterior.
Hanging terrarium
Transparent bottles made of any glass are perfect for a home terrarium or flowerpot for living plants. Such a hanging flowerbed creates the impression and feeling that the bottle grew from plants, and not vice versa. It’s very simple to make; you need to cut off a small part of the bottle and plant a plant inside on the ground. They can also be not only hanging, but also tabletop or wall-mounted. 
Bird feeders
Feeders can be made from upside down bottles. Fill the bottles with food or grain, after securing it in wooden structure, turn it upside down and place a glass or saucer underneath. Some of the food will be poured into a glass or saucer. As soon as the birds peck at the food, it will gradually be added. Such feeders can be safely hung on trees and they will decorate your site.
Bird feeders on a wooden mount
Stylish bottle bird feeder
"Music of the winds" from bottles
These bells are made from a colored glass bottle, first cut into several pieces. In the largest part and the rest of the small ones, it is necessary to make holes for the wire with decorating material, which will connect all the cut parts of the bottle to each other.
This thing will look fabulous in your summer garden.
Flowerbeds and fences
Making a flowerbed out of bottles for the garden is not that difficult. And so let's get started:
- For the base we take car tires. The lower part of the base is plastered with mortar.
- The first row is laid with the necks towards the center, the second and subsequent ones in the same way, but with a gradual offset so that the bottles are stacked in a checkerboard pattern.
- All voids are filled with mortar to make the structure stronger.
- The last layer is fixed with a solution, covered with soil, and only a wide part of the bottles should remain on the surface.
Round flower bed made of bottles
It is also very easy to make a fence from glass bottles, separating vegetables and berries with a decorative fence. First, draw the boundaries of the divisions, then dig a ditch to place the bottles, placing them tightly in a row, and then tamp the soil around.
Fence for flower beds
The bottle fence also looks very original. It is especially beautiful if the bottle is of different shapes and colors.
Original fence made of bottles
Installation process:
- We dig long wooden poles into the ground. If desired, the poles can be mounted into a wooden base.
- In each bottle, you need to make a hole in the bottom 1 centimeter larger than the diameter of the pole.
- We string the bottles onto the poles and secure them with a bar on top.
Also see detailed photo Master Class.
Prepare the base for the poles
String bottles on poles
Making such crafts will entertain you and will also benefit not only you, but also the environment.
