DIY Wine Bottles Crafts

It is only natural that along with those corks you have a few wine bottles on your hands and no ideas what to do with them besides throwing them away.But we,at Homesthetics, are all about recycling,upcycling and all kinds of green sustainable projects.Everything can be used in one way or another and be given a new purpose and life in your home so don’t be in a rush to throw things away.

We do live in a consumerist society where money and assets have become our primary goal in life but just because we buy new things everyday it does not mean the old ones are useless.Find creative ways to reuse them, adapt their function and obtain new beautiful; items for your home and garden.Obtain beautiful wine bottle centerpieces or glass lamps and chandeliers; cut them to make candle holders and unique food plates. Just let your imagination do the work for you and be creative.

But first lets start with some methods of cutting glass bottles

Cutting glass might seem difficult and quite terrifying actually but the truth is the methods we’ll present below are very easy and are guaranteed to work every time.

Cutting the bottle using a flame

Score the bottle.
Use a glass cutter or a glass drill bit to score a line.Find a support system to hold the bottle in place and draw a perfect line or just freehand it if you have a steady hand.

Heat the bottle.
Heat the line that you made with the glass cutter. You can use a small candle or a small butane torch. Focus the heat directly along the score line, and constantly rotate the bottle to get even coverage.

Dip the bottle in cold water.
After 5 minutes of heating the bottle, dip the end you are breaking off in cold water. Add optional ice to the water.

Repeat the process.
The bottle might not break on the first try so repeat the heating and cooling process until you get the bottle cut.

Sand the edges.
Use a rough square of sandpaper to clean the glass edges until you are certain you will not cut yourself on those edges.