Recycled Wine Bottle Lamp
Upcycle an old wine bottle into an eclectic porch gas lamp…
While I haven’t tried this DIY yet I think it’s my new favorite. Erik Anderson of Gerardot & Co. (a team of branding experts, creative marketers and designers) came up with this DIY when he was looking for a Tiki Style lamp to fend off the mosquitoes and provide some ambiance around his patio. After a quick stroll through the hardware store he had everything he needed for around $5.
I’ve been saving wine bottle for another project I’m working on, but now I think I’ll have to step up my wine consumption. What do they say again? ”A bottle of red wine a day is good for your heart?”
What you
All you need is:
- Empty Wine Bottle (You can use any bottle you like as long as it’s glass and the neck is 1” in diameter. Be clever!)
- Teflon Tape 1/2” - $0.30
- Copper Top Plate Connector (threaded for 3/8”-16 thread rod)
- 1” Split Ring Hanger (threaded for 3/8”-16 thread rod)
- 1/2” x 3/8” Copper Coupling
- 1/2” Copper Cap
- Two Hex Nuts (threaded for 3/8”-16 thread rod)
- Two #10 x 1” Zinc Plated Wood Screws (if your mounting it to wood)
- 3/8”-16 Zinc Plated Threaded Rod (I bought a 3’ rod and cut it down to 8, 4-1/2” rods with a hacksaw.)
- Tiki Replacement Wick
- Torch Fuel (For safety reasons, only use fuel made specifically for outdoor torches. i.e. Tiki brand)
Head over to the Gerardot & Co blog for the tutorial and some important safety considerations.
Source: Gerardot & Co blog
Uh oh, a friend of mine is reporting problems threading the wick through the coupling.
Nevermind I think she had the wrong part. I’m going to have to chip down and give this a shot this weekend.
What happens if it falls on the porch. Would it ignite like a maltov cocktail?
that’s why you gotta make sure you fasten the copper coupling well enough, it shouldn’t slip through that, if so then the coupling is either too big or the bottle neck is too skinny.
I find it rather strange for a green-blog to promote an ‘upcycled product’ that is close to useless and uses fosil fuel as energysource. Sure it is cute and very hippy. and doesnt use much fuel, but then again, how much do these few ‘upcycled bottles’ actually add to greening the world. Isnt it better to use this potentionally very valuable material to good use on a large scale?
We passionately promote the concept of creative reuse and DIY. Sure there are greener paths to take. Not buying wine in the first place and not using lamps and not owning a home would be greener, but if someone is planning on putting some torches or lamps on their deck, this DIY is a greenER and more rewarding alternative to going to home depot and buying some cheap tiki torches.
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I find it rather strange for a green-blog to promote an ‘upcycled product’ that is close to useless and uses fosil fuel as energysource. Sure it is cute and very hippy. and doesnt use much fuel, but then again, how much do these few ‘upcycled bottles’ actually add to greening the world.
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well i’ll tell you what.. i wouldnt call it upcycled but i will say this is a brilliant idea and it waaay better than just throwing the bottle away so it can spend forever in a landfill which is what most people do with discarded bottles
Yeah, in the strictest (industrial) definition of the word, you are right, this is not really upcycled, however I believe the word, through popular use, has adopted the meaning “reused in a way that has a higher intrinsic value than originally intended.” A glass bottle is a disposable container that is going to require a significant amount of energy to reclaim and reuse the raw glass. By turning it from a disposable container into a lamp that serves a functional purpose not only are you saving it from the landfill and saving the energy necessary to recycle it, you are preventing the consumption of more resources (assuming you would have gone a bought a lamp had you not been able to make one). The permanence and utility of the lamp give it more of an intrinsic value than it had as a container.
It is a pet peeve of mine when people use the word upcycle to define any “repurposing” especially when the repurposing is actually an example of downcycling. We are actually guilty of doing that on occasion here at gUP but no ones perfect
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