Glass bottles can be recycled in so many ways. You can paint them with spray, you can cut them in half, you can decorate them in several ways. However, some glass bottles have such an unusual and interesting shape that can be used as they are.
The only thing you have to do it to take the label off the bottle. For this, you must put the bottle into warm water and let it soak for a while. Then you will be able to pull of the label easily. Scrub the bottle with water to make sure that all glue will come off.
- Play with the arrangement: In this project, four glass bottles of retsina "kechribari" were arranged in-line on the top of a low bookcase. This linear, strict arrangement was ideal for this minimal appartment.
Reader‘s question
"I have a two-storey house and I would like to split it up into two flats. However, how could I use the space under the stairs and what options do I have without removing the stair?"
Make a set of hand-made wool coasters using the technique of needle felting.
Grass and leaf brooms (or leaf rakes) are made by metal, and their wires are so flexible that can be even bended by hand. So, you can easily make a wall hanger for kitchen utensils and towels without using any special tool.
All you have to do is bend with your hands a few wires making the hooks. If needed, you can make more hooks by simply bending more wires.
Some carpets just aren't made to be stepped on. For some innovative artists and designers, rugs are not only funtional objects with great tradition but canvases for graphic design, artwork, photographic prints, illustrations etc. Nodus is an italian brand, which combines the ancient tradition of weaving and textile art with the contemporary vision of leading designers and architects. The world’s best craftsmen’s traditions mixed with the most innovative ideas, the most daring and avant-guard shapes.
Nodus' carpets are entirely made by hand, by some of the best craftsmen in the world. Even the packaging is handmade. The spirit of the carpets is captured in dynamic and organic forms, assumes irregular profiles or takes inspiration from contemporary and everyday products such as fabrics, tablecloths, books and maps. These unique works of art on which to walk when entering the spaces of daily life and highly valued by families are displayed in the Il Piccolo showroom, in the center on Milan. Nodus' collections have been made all over the world, in Nepal, Portugal, Pakistan, India, Morocco, Turkmenistan, China and Turkey.
- Underworld patterned carpet, designed by Studio Jobs. The illustration on the carpet seams like a surrealistic comic, full of strange creatures like multiheaded-geeses, antenna-eyed frogs, lobsters with wasp wings and wind-up fishes. This wool carpet is hand-knoted in Nepal.
Reader’s question
“I have attached pictures of the counter top and the cabinet doors of my kitchen. I need help picking out kitchen backsplash tile. Could I choose mosaic tiles? I would like to go for a modern look in the area."
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