A good use for empty wine bottles. (Taken with Instagram at HCAF Point Theater)
As many of you who are connected with Unconsumption’s Facebook page know, I (Molly) recently visited Schreiner University (in Kerrville, Texas) to talk to students about upcycling.
While in the area, I spotted a couple of cool reuse examples, including this bottle tree on the grounds of the Hill Country Arts Foundation.
(If you like this bottle tree, check out others in earlier Unconsumption posts here, and more wine-related repurposing here.)
Happy wine o’clock (somewhere)!
It’s wine o’clock (somewhere), which means it’s time to share an adult beverage-related repurposing find.
Today: Corks made into a curtain — which could serve as a room divider.
To make your own: Collect corks (have fun with that!), attach small eye hooks to them, and hang the strings of corks from a rod.
For additional inspiration, check out Unconsumption’s wine o’clock series — a semi-regular series of Friday afternoon posts — here.
(Photos via Jelinek Cork Group)
![It’s wine o’clock (somewhere), which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find.
Today: Empty wine bottles used as decorations.
Photo via Ashbee Design, which provides bottle-painting tips.
[Note: To make “candy corn” bottles, Ashbee Design uses aerosol paint, which I (Molly) am not a big fan of using. If you do use spray paint, consider looking for low-VOC varieties.]
See also:
Wine bottles painted to look like jack-o-lanterns.
Some earlier Unconsumption posts on Halloween-related repurposing.
More posts in Unconsumption’s wine o’clock series.
Creative new uses for spray cans, including upcycling them into lamps (here and here), flowers (here), and radios (here).
Cheers!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbnedqMPGB1qzv12bo1_400.jpg)
It’s wine o’clock (somewhere), which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find.
Today: Empty wine bottles used as decorations.
Photo via Ashbee Design, which provides bottle-painting tips.
[Note: To make “candy corn” bottles, Ashbee Design uses aerosol paint, which I (Molly) am not a big fan of using. If you do use spray paint, consider looking for low-VOC varieties.]
See also:
- Wine bottles painted to look like jack-o-lanterns.
- Some earlier Unconsumption posts on Halloween-related repurposing.
- More posts in Unconsumption’s wine o’clock series.
- Creative new uses for spray cans, including upcycling them into lamps (here and here), flowers (here), and radios (here).
Cheers!
I want to make these.
They’d look gorgeous on our balcony, and would put our wine penchant to good use. XD
Wish there were more info on how to do this! If you have any, leave in the comments, please!
(via fuckyeahupcycle)
Happy wine o’clock!
This week’s wine-related repurposing find: Corks made into ornaments.
For how-to / tutorial, see Lavender Clouds blog.
For earlier posts in Unconsumption’s wine o’clock series, look here.
Whoa — now this looks like an Unconsumption-y chandelier.
Fashioned from wine bottles and wine barrel parts.
(via Bewley’s Rerun Productions)
Happy wine o’clock (somewhere)!
“I used to be a wine barrel… and now I’m a chess board.”
Addressing issues of non-eco-friendly waste associated with the wine industry, wineries in the Golan region of Israel gave young designers at the Industrial Design Department at the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT) the challenge of repurposing wine barrels.
(via Design School Partners with Wineries to Give Wooden Barrels a Second Life | Green Prophet)
![It’s wine o’clock (somewhere) — which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find.
Today, it’s art — on a large scale — made by Grand Rapids-based illustrator/artist Scott Gundersen, who reuses thousands of corks in each work:
Starting with a large photograph that’s transferred to a drawing, Gundersen pins each cork to the canvas, creating a correlation between the hues of the wine-stained corks and the value of light or shadow in the portrait. His latest work, Trisha [pictured above and below], took 3,621 corks to complete, but other works have required over 9,000.
Check out time-lapse videos of Gundersen’s making of “Trisha” here, and “Grace” (shown in the bottom photo), which took 9,217 corks + 50 hours, here.
(via Wine Cork Portraits by Scott Gundersen | Colossal)
Find earlier posts in Unconsumption’s wine o’clock series here.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7hac2IoIi1qzv12bo1_r1_400.jpg)
It’s wine o’clock (somewhere) — which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find.
Today, it’s art — on a large scale — made by Grand Rapids-based illustrator/artist Scott Gundersen, who reuses thousands of corks in each work:
Starting with a large photograph that’s transferred to a drawing, Gundersen pins each cork to the canvas, creating a correlation between the hues of the wine-stained corks and the value of light or shadow in the portrait. His latest work, Trisha [pictured above and below], took 3,621 corks to complete, but other works have required over 9,000.
Check out time-lapse videos of Gundersen’s making of “Trisha” here, and “Grace” (shown in the bottom photo), which took 9,217 corks + 50 hours, here.
(via Wine Cork Portraits by Scott Gundersen | Colossal)
Find earlier posts in Unconsumption’s wine o’clock series here.
It’s wine o’clock (somewhere) — which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find.
Today, it’s wine bottles turned into planters — a great size for small succulents. Wine + reuse + container gardening = win!
The bottle-pots pictured here are from Bewley’s Rerun Productions.
For earlier posts in Unconsumption’s wine o’clock series, look here.
It’s wine o’clock (somewhere) — which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find.
Today, it’s a DIY project: Turn wine crates into a coffee table.
For the how-to / tutorial, see this DIY Vintage Chic blog post. (Spotted on Pinterest here.)
Note: The tutorial mentions the idea of buying new crates at a craft store/retailer, but why not make a table from used crates from, say, a local wine shop, liquor store, or grocery store?!
For earlier posts in Unconsumption’s wine o’clock series, go here.
Cheers!
It’s wine o’clock (somewhere) — which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find.
Today: Artwork. Specifically, the work of Tony Feher, mentioned previously here, who shows us that empty bottles and blue marbles make a pretty attractive pairing.
Find more wine o’clock posts here.
Photo via Anthony Meier Fine Arts, which features a photo gallery of several pieces of Feher’s art.
