She Turns Leftover Glass Bottles Into A Porch Masterpiece!

Have you ever wondered what you could do with glass bottles besides recycle them? So you should remove the labels and clean them, and then you could either just hang them up as they are, and maybe you can find different colored wine bottles, but I love coastal themes. Summer I want to be reminded of the ocean and the lake, so all you take is a sponge brush and metallic paints, acrylic paints, and they adhere to glass. The first step was creating the header for the structure. We designed a curved end for either side, cut it out, and sanded it. Think of this structure like a sandwich, as in any sandwich the bread is on the outside and there are fillings on the inside. For the bread we created the back piece with the two vertical pieces and the base, and the inside of the sandwich is created with two by fours. They are all inset one inch on each side. Then we topped it with the exact same header, sides, and base and nailed those together too. Lastly we cut a simple base with curved ends and attached it to the upright portion on either side. We stained it in dark walnut by verathane and let it dry for 24 hours. Now let's take care of beautifying the bottles and getting them hung. Okay, so what you're going to do next is measure the width of your header there, and you're going to find the center point, mark it, and then you need to decide how many strings of bottles you want hanging down. I find odd numbers are always the best, so I've chosen nine. You're going to mark out all the marks and you're going to take this, it's called an awl, and you're going to push it into the wood to pre-start, and then you're going to put these little hooks in, they're actually called screw eyes, and go across the whole beam and do the rest. So the next step is to take your twine or whatever you want to hang your bottles by, but I chose twine, I want a little bit rustic. I taped the end to be able to get it through the eyelet and you're going to feed it through, tie a knot, you should make it a little bit longer because each knot when you tie the bottle is going to pull up the twine, so if you want some hanging down quite low you want to make sure that you have enough twine down there to do that. So I'm going to make this one up at the top and I'm going to get it in that ridge around the bottle so that it doesn't slip off, that's key and extremely important. So I thought it'd be a good idea to get all of the twine put in place and then start doing the bottles because I'm going to want to stagger the bottles and just come up with like kind of a free-flowing plan and design. You could put them really close together so that it makes a full like screen if you're trying to block something really bad. I do kind of want the sun to dapple through here because we get beautiful sunsets over there, so that's why I have mine a little bit more spaced out. So here it is, the twinkle lights are showing up, the last bits of sun are coming through the bottles, and I think it turned out really unique. And I'm loving the way all the different watery blues and greens are showing up. I don't know, it's a unique idea, something different, a way to create kind of a screen or something to detract from an unfavorable view. And when the breeze picks up a little bit it sounds great because they just lightly clink against each other and so it's kind of a bit of a wind chime effect too. Anyhow, hopefully you enjoyed this project and will give it a try.