Ever wonder what to do with that empty wine bottle, baby food jar or jam jar? Here are 10 great ideas for taking something you’d normally recycle or throw out and making something pretty and useful out of it. Check out these 16 Ways To Upcycle Glass Bottles and Jars!
16 Ways to Upcycle Glass jars and bottles
- Storage and Organization. Glass jars are something everyone has too many of. Why not use some of them to organize items in your craft room, kitchen, or bathroom.
- Home and Wedding Decor. Glass bottles and jars are a quick and easy way to decorate your home or special events. The possiblities are endless from vases, candle holders, or even wedding favors, simply let your imagination run wild.
- Inexpensive. Reguardless of what you may be using glass bottles and jar for, most of the DIY projects are very budget friendly and will produce a stunning end result.
1. Cute Storage Jars
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Dottie Angel shows how to make these cute storage jars. So easy and so pretty!
2. Candle Holders
Wine bottles are great for holding tapers. A group all in one color makes quite a beautiful statement. Clear bottle candle holders
3. Twig Vase
Gardenmama has a great tutorial on how to make this Twig Vase which uses a recycled jar. I love this!
4. Spray Painted Bottles and Jars
Pretty Handy Girl shows how to make these lovely spray painted glass bottles. So pretty!
5. Sand Art in Vintage Bottles
How fun would it be to create these vibrant colored sand vases from with your children? Crafting A Green World is where they can be found.
6. Beautiful Terrarium
Make a beautiful terrarium out of an old jar from Urban Comfort. Making a terrarium is on my to do list. I just have to find a big enough jar.
7. DIY Wedding Favors
Who is looking for beautiful yet inexpensive wedding favor ideas? The Country Chick Cottage has the perfect idea using old milk bottles.
8. Mason Jar Candles
Two Men and A Little Farm display how to use mason or spaghetti jars to make jar candles. These would be so pretty out on a deck or screened porch on a summer night.
9. Addi Lamp
If you are into industrial decor in your home, then this Addie Lamp will be perfect for you. Hometalk has step by steps instructions to follow and help you through.
10. Hanging Bottle Vases
What a statement! Wouldn’t these hanging bottle vases from Elizabeth Anne Designs be so pretty for a porch or backyard party?
11. Sewing Kit
More Like Home has inspired a unique idea gift idea for those who are quilters or seamstresses.
12. Hanging Bottle Vase
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I love the look of this Hanging Bottle Vase from The Merrythought! They would look stunning hanging in an office or study.
13. Hanging Lanterns
These hanging lanterns have a magical feel as they hang on your patio, barn, or front door. A Piece Of The Rainbow will give you a tutoral in how to make them.
14. DIY Wine Floating Candle Holders
Homeyohmy has a brillian idea for those empty wine bottles laying around. Who would have known from just a wine bottle you could create elegant Floating Candle Holders?
15. DIY Apothecary Jars
Hometalk provides a simple solution to organizing bathroom supplies by using empty food jars and dollar tree candlestick holders. DIY Apothecary Jars are an attractive method for storage.
16. Mason Jar Planter
Mason Jar Crafts offers an upcycled mason jar as a planter for those who have a green thumb. This is such a practical way to repurpose a mason jar, and it can be color-coordinated to your own style and decor.
Keep those glass bottles and jars and upcycle them into something useful and pretty!
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What great ideas!
Mary Ellen
The Working Home Keeper
Oooo! I like a lot of those ideas. The little terrariums are a neat idea and the hanging vases for a party.
I’ve seen people make lights out of them like chandeliers too.
I really like the garden edging…{wink-wink}
What I would like to do with the glass I’m saving is make a bottle tree. Can’t sell the hubby on the idea. But I’m working on it!
I say have fun with your recyclables.
~Pat
I’d love a bottle tree too! If we liked wine and drank more of it I might consider the bottle edging 🙂
Those are some good ideas – thanks for sharing. I save the unusual shaped or pretty colors and when the stash gets out of control I have to clean them out. 😀
Enjoy your weekend.
Thease are all lovely ideas, I like the terrarium too, but finding a glass jar that size, not much choices in glass, everything is plastic. Thank you for stopping over my little place and leaving a comment I sure appreciate it, and hope you’ll stop again sometime. I prefer glass, doesn’t everything look and taste better when it is in glass. ? My MIL sometimes gives me glass jars when the shape is unusual, and I store spices and what not in them. I’ll have to keep my eyes open to find as many as you’ve shown here.
Thank you so much for including my bottle border! Lovely ideas – all of them.
Lots of lovely ideas… Now I wish that I drank wine.
These are great ideas. Thanks.
Love the first one and the terrariums ones, Manuela! Great ideas!
Love these ideas! Thanks for finding and sharing them!
I love these ideas! I dare not tell the husband, but I have just found a new excuse to hoard a new thing. Uh oh…
I really do want to take a look in our recycling right now to see what we might have before he takes it tomorrow.
Hi Manuella,
I like the bottle and jar ideas you have shared.
Years ago, my daughter and I painted the outside of jars and put pictures on them, then we put rafia around the top to pretty up the thread area and gave these away for pen and pencil holders…..everyone loved them.
I’d like a bottle tree,too.
God bless
Barb from Australia
I want to try spray painting some. I have to hide them from my husband though. He always puts them in the recycle bin.
I got the neighbors to drink the wine for my bottle tree.
🙂
Great ideas, I have quite the collection of jars! Have a blessed and beautiful Saturday, HUGS!
Great ideas! I love the garden edging, but would be scared of broken glass from my super active boys. The yarn covered bottles look like such an easy DIY project! Thanks for sharing.
cool. love the colorful bottles along the edge of the garden!
Such pretty pictures. I adore the terrarium with the orchid. I wonder if I could keep one alive like that. My green thumb seems to be slowly turning brown.
LOVING this project – but then again, I am kind of obsessed with terrariums! haha You should totally enter this project in Craftbaby’s ‘Upcycle Challenge’! http://www.craftbaby.com/contests/3/upcycle-it-sweeps
What a fantastic way to use everyday bottles that we all accumulate! Love your ideas! Thanks for sharing them with us.
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