Decor bottles with their own hands

Any person's home is the area of ​​personal space, which the owner shall be in accordance with their preferences and tastes. It is a balance of comfort and functional comfort is achieved in the home with small details. Pinch of imagination, a few spoonfuls of free time, a couple of pieces of patience, half cup with creativity and a recipe for a perfect decoration of your home is ready. Decorating bottles with their own hands is the type of decoration activities, which are now called "hand-made", that is, something made with your hands. Quite often, we throw away used items or items that would seem to have already served their and the right to a second life are not.

The second life of things

Decorating bottles or "recipes" of their registration may surprise eccentricity, beauty and elegance.

In fact it is just a container, which is of no interest in itself, but with the help of simple materials from glass bottles You can make lamps, candlesticks, vases, lampshades, painted palm pencil, lampshades, bird feeders for the birds guests.

Candlesticks can be of three types: ordinary under long candles, which require only decoration works of glass; candle, a candle covering with truncate bottom; Mounted with truncate bottom, in which a candle mounted on a special chain stretched through the neck.

The most original turn vase out of bottles with necks cut: slices on several bottles are made from different angles and get complete original composition style minimalism.

If the beautifully matched color of the glass, even the paint is not required. Now very popular use of bottles as bearing "skirting" shelves. The wooden shelves or tabletops drilled holes with a diameter under the neck of the bottle and "skewer" in the empty glass container, which keeps excellent. Some on the upper levels in the open necks stick dried flowers and cute trinkets.

Cooking and glass cutting rules

Before proceeding with the decoration of the bottle, it should be clear from the label, or the possible contents of the residues. For this purpose, the glass must be lowered into the hot (not boiling) water in a bowl hold for several minutes. After the glue under the label released his grip, washable sponge paper. Now the glass is clean and you need to decide: whether to cut capacity and, if necessary, in what way. The simplest is considered circumcision bottle special glass cutter. If this tool is not available, you can use a little time consuming, but effective way.

To do this you will need:

• Coarse thread;
• Alcohol-based substance (You can use mineral spirits);
• A bowl with hot water;
• A bowl with cold water;
• Matches.

Bottle on the future site of the cut is necessary to wrap in several layers of coarse thread, well soaked in an alcohol solution. Thread and need to burn until it burns quickly rotate the container. Then lower it into hot water, held for about four minutes, abruptly pull and dipped in cold water.

The temperature difference will provoke the occurrence of a crack in a place scheduled thread. The only drawback with this method may be not very clean cut. If you need perfect accuracy, you have to use the glass cutter.

patterning

Material prepared necessary sections can now be made to proceed the most creative part of the work-decoration. If you can not draw, it will not be a serious obstacle.

Sketches picture can always be found on the Internet and use ready-made works of talented artists. With colors to define simply, the best option are considered stained glass paints, specially designed for glasses.

To work with stained glass paints degreasing needs that need to lubricate the surface before applying the paint. It can be used acrylic, but the effect of it will be somewhat different: acrylic glass not paint completely, no matter how many layers you are not coated.

The next item will be the style of choice, which will be painted. Now considered to be the most popular spot painting and stained glass painting. For the first characteristic patterning small droplets-points for the second - almost indistinguishable similarity with mosaic windows, cobbled together from separate pieces of different colors. Combining techniques requires some training and "hands stuffed" in the drawing.

If you are hard to throw off the bat, it should work out on paper. For the beginners it is important to remember that first of all drawn large parts of the figure, and the little things are left to the final stage. It should be reserved cotton buds, by which to correct minor flaws.

Pasting as a way of decorating

Another excellent option design of the bottle with your own hands can be a glass pasting various little things from silk ribbons and rhinestones to buttons and beads. Very popular decor bottles using ordinary twine.

The yarn is adhered to the glass fibers and through various twists create a composite image. This creates the effect of "antique" with rustic motifs. These bottles will look great in the kitchen.

Specifically for this space can be filled in a transparent container peas, grains of corn, chopped carrots and pour it all grocery variety warmed 9% vinegar. Spread slices of products you need layers, it helps to achieve a harmonious composition. Cork can be either a conventional plug or cork covered with cloth (usually with a checkered pattern), and wrap the top with string.

Several of these bottles and cans will become original design that will decorate a kitchen shelf.

decoupage technique

The essence of decoupage is to transfer the image / pattern on its surface and attaching a special varnish. Decoupage is a very old technique of decorating bottles and more.

She got a new life just a decade ago, when many masters began to learn it from scratch and gradually dilute with modern design techniques.

To work you will need:

• brushes;
• Glue;
• Basis patterned;
• Lac.

Clean surface is coated with varnish transferred and drawing it. After drying pattern for fixing varnish. It is best to use a brush bristle for such purposes. At the discretion of the needlewoman to the drawing can add edging made of silk ribbons or beads.

The emphasis on the little things

Letting go of your imagination in flight, you can create a truly magnificent decor elements with their own hands, worthy of artistic exhibitions.

It is thanks to the little things in your home there a feeling of unique comfort.

This applies not only decoration of bottles: small embroidered pillows, cute trinkets, embroidered linens, beaded trees, knitted blankets, painted ceramic objects.

You can always make a modicum of heat in private space, not spent so much time. And even if you think that the talent for needlework you do not, just a few hours will show you how this fascinating process.

Decor bottles with their hands can become not only a fascinating creative process, but also a wonderful pastime for the whole family.