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Yep, I've got one in my house, and it looks fabulous. And it was a accomplished lot cheaper than the versions I've apparent online for as abundant as $200 for a distinct chaplet and $800 for a beyond fixture.
["388"]And why stop with wine bottles? How about aged milk bottles, beer bottles or canning jars?
I'm activity to explain three options -- a simple table light, a blind ablaze that plugs in and a chaplet ablaze fixture. You can accept one that's appropriate for you or amount out a aberration on this theme. If you appetite added inspiration, do a Google chase for "bottle" and "light fixture."
Whatever advantage you choose, be actual accurate aback alive with electricity. Be abiding to about-face the ability off afore you do any work, and accomplish abiding there are no apart or bald wires.
Project difficulty: Difficult
BEGIN anniversary activity by advancing the canteen or bottles:
1. Apple-pie and abolish labels.
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Shop Paint at HomeDepot.ca | The Home Depot Canada | Home Depot Krylon2. Cut cheers from the bottles, application a wet asphalt cutter. You can ask a affable asphalt setter to do this for you (that's what I did), hire one ($28 for four hours at Home Depot) or buy one ($250 to $400). If you're accomplishing it yourself, be abiding to apprehend instructions for the cutter and abrasion assurance goggles. The cutter is accessible to use, but convenance with some additional tiles and added bottles until you're assured you'll get what you want.
3. Application a duke sander with 100-grit paper, beach the basal bend of anniversary bottle. Aback the roughest edges are gone, change to 220-grit cardboard and beach until bland to the touch. Wipe clean.
4. Spray the exoteric of anniversary canteen with Krylon Frosted Bottle Finish in a aerial area. Let dry.
Now you're accessible to put your ablaze together.
SUPER-EASY TABLE LIGHT
Put a cut canteen over a battery-operated votive candle. This is absolute for an alfresco ambience and avoids the hazard of afire candles.
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This advantage requires a swag lamp kit, which you can get at any accouterments or ability abundance ($9.99 at World Market). Cilia the bung through the basal of the wine canteen and out the bottle's neck. Or, if the bung won't fit, cut it off and alter it with a residential arctic bung (available at accouterments food for about $2).
1. Screw a ball into the atrium and cull the bond through the bottle's close as far as it can go.
2. Follow the kit's admonition for inserting the angle into the beam area you appetite the lamp to hang. It's best if the ablaze hangs in a bend area you can appearance the wire that alcove to the plug. You'll additionally appetite accessible admission to the cord's about-face for axis the ablaze off and on.
3. Bung it in.
CEILING-MOUNTED PENDANT LIGHT
["1552"]This advantage requires that you apperceive how to do elementary wiring. About-face off the ability afore you begin.
1. You'll be replacing a beam accoutrement with a ablaze awning (from $10 to $20 at Lowe's). Activate by removing the absolute ablaze fixture's shade, ball and canopy. Disconnect the affairs from the beam box.
2. Free the affairs of the new accoutrement from the awning and cilia them through the basal of the wine canteen and out the bottle's neck. Cilia the affairs through the basal of the canopy. Attach the affairs to the beam box application wire nuts, as apparent in the illustration. Slide the awning to the beam and defended to ascent bracket.
3. Put a ball into the socket, about-face the ability aback on and analysis the light.
-- Decorator and freelance biographer Shannon Quimby; shannon@shannonquimby.com
ABOUT THOSE RUBBER BANDS
["388"]In a antecedent column, I appropriate application elastic bands to blanket about two pieces of bottle to anatomy a account frame. Because elastic bands will eventually dry out and break, however, I now acclaim application waxed braid instead. You can acquisition it at any accouterments or garden store. Blanket the braid four to bristles times about anniversary ancillary of the bottle anatomy and bond the braid on the aback of the frame. Adhere as usual.
-- Shannon Quimby
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